Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series:

“The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latinx Sexuality and Labor”

By Richard T. Rodríguez

Monday, March 12, 2025
1:00-2:00 p.m.
INTN 3023

Drawn from my book in progress, The Desirable Conduit: Cinematic Fantasies of Latinx Sexuality and Labor, this talk focuses on John Butler’s 2018 dramedy Papi Chulo. Concerned with the simultaneous demand for Latino male sexuality and labor in contemporary queer cinema, focusing on what I identify as “bad cinema” helps glean insight in representational spaces to assess the social, sexual, economic, and psychic currencies afforded to and by Latino male sexuality.

Dr. Richard T. Rodríguez is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics and A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and U.S. Latinidad, both published by Duke University Press and finishing a book of poems titled Exemplars & Accomplices.

Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series:

“When You’re a Priest, Even Healers Work for the Devil: Settler Persecution and Nahua Resistance in Colonial Mexico”

By Edward Anthony Polanco

Monday, March 3, 2025
1:00-2:00 p.m.
INTN 3023

Dr. Edward Anthony Polanco is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, which occupies the Monacan Indian Nation’s territory. He also serves as the Director of the Indigenous Studies Program at Virginia Tech. Dr. Polanco received his Ph.D. in History (with a minor in Anthropology) at the University of Arizona. He is author of Healing Like Our Ancestors: The Nahua Tiçitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico, 1535-1650 (University of Arizona Press, 2024) and various articles that pertain to health, the body, and Mesoamerica.