Chicanas: Literature, Theory, and Film

Date
Thu October 13th 2016, 12:00 - 1:20pm
Event Sponsor
Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, El Centro Chicano y Latino, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Women's Community Center, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Department of Art & Art History, Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA), Department of English, Creative Writing Program
Location
Building 160, Room 325
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Professor Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, in her last quarter teaching at Stanford, will host three prominent Chicanas to discuss Literature, Theory, and Film.

Her third guest is Aurora Guerrero, who was born in San Francisco to Mexican immigrant parents. She earned an MFA in directing from the California Institute of the Arts. She is a co-founder of Womyn Image Makers. In 2005 Ms. Guerrero was selected as a Sundance Institute Ford Foundation film fellow, where she participated in the Native Indigenous Lab. In 2012, she made her feature film debut at Sundance. Mosquita y Mari tells the coming-of-age story of two teenage Chicanas, who form a relationship ignited by sexual attraction. Her next project, Los Valientes, features a young undocumented gay Latino.

PREVIOUS LECTURES IN THE SERIES:

Helena María Viramontes

October 10, 2016

4:30-6:00pm

Women’s Community Center 

Emma Pérez

October 11, 2016

1:30-4:20pm

Encina Hall 464

Co-sponsored by Chicana/o/Latina/o Studies.

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