As a Visiting
Scholar (co-sponsored with LALSI), Dr. Maria Amelia Viteri, Associate Professor
at University of San Francisco, Quito (USFQ), developed the working group
entitled “Queer/Cuir Americas” that seeks to collaborate and promote further
debates on sexualities and its theories from a global southern perspective
ranging from Southern Genealogies and Epistemologies to structural inequality
and modernity. The working group is formed by 20 scholars from Universities
throughout the Americas including Iberoamérica.
The first workshop will take place in May 24, 2016, at Fordham, Lincoln
campus thanks to LALSI's support through its Director, Dr. Arnaldo
Cruz-Malavé. Some of its main debates
will continue as a panel at LASA (Latin American Studies Association) meetings
in 2016 that will take place in NYC. The
group is also currently working towards a publication that captures some of the
salient discussions and debates originated from these two events.
Dr. Maria Amelia Viteri (Universidad San Francisco - Quito) participating in the seminar, Seminar on Inequality, Salaries and Migration at Fordham University in July (she is seated on the top far right corner).
As part of the
burgeoning Ecuadorian Studies Center (the first center of its kind in the
country), along with Prof. Hugo Benavides, they will be collaborating with the
Ecuadorian Film Showcase in NYC during June 2016 through academic and
video-forums, as part of their efforts to continue developing the initiative
between Fordham, USFQ and the Center, considering that Dr. Viteri is the
Founder of the Ecuadorian Film Showcase that started in Washington D.C. in 2008.
Profs. Maria Amelia Viteri (Universidad San Francisco - Quito), Miguel Lopez and Miguel Reyes (Universidad Iberoamericana - Puebla), and O. Hugo Benavides (Fordham University).
