Keynote: Dr. Frances Aparicio
"Marc Anthony 3.0: Toward a Critical Salsa Romantica"
Frances R. Aparicio is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Latina and Latino Studies Program at Northwestern University. She is author of the award-winning Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music and Puerto Rican Cultures (Wesleyan 1998), and co-editor of various critical anthologies, including Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad, Musical Migrations, Hibridismos culturales, and co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literatures. http://www.spanish-portuguese.northwestern.edu/people/frances-aparicio.html
Speakers: Dr. Christopher González (Texas A&M) and Sam Saldívar (Michigan State), as well as OSU’s Theresa Rojas and Torsa Ghosal