Workshop on Hemispheric Studies of the Americas (Hemisférica)

The Workshop on Hemispheric Studies of the Americas is an interdisciplinary forum and intellectual community for graduate students and faculty whose work and research are focused on Latin America or the Caribbean. The workshop hosts regular presentations of work in progress by students, faculty, and invited guests, as well as special events and gatherings. Participants come from a wide range of disciplines from across the social sciences and humanities, enabling an interdisciplinary conversation and exchange around questions of common interest to those whose work focuses on the region

Alternate Fridays, 10:30–12:00 pm
5828 S University Ave, Pick Hall for International Studies, Room 319
Workshop coordinators for 2026-27: Jack Chelgren and Belén Sánchez

• October 9 - “Beyond Light Beams: Electrical Devices and the Visualization of Nocturnal
  Native Fauna” - Victoria Saramago (Associate Professor, University of Chicago)
• November 13 - “The Inverted Image: A Visual Ethnography of the Festival of Santiago Matamoros (Loíza, Puerto Rico)” - Roger Canals (Full Professor, Universidad de Barcelona)
• November 20 - “The Politics of Brain Fog, Burnout, and Cognitive Shutdown: Reading Rosa Arciniega’s Dystopian Fiction (1933)” - Natalie Cortez Klossner (PhD candidate, Comparative Literature)
• December 4 - “From Gardens to Citizenship: Women and Horticulture in Latin America, 1870–1920” - Vanesa Miseres (Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame)