Día de los muertos: Dr. Laura Perez (UC Berkeley), “Fashioning Decolonial Optics: Days of the Dead ‘Walking Altars’ and ‘Calavera Fashion Shows’ in Chicana/o-Latina/o L.A.”
Laura E. Pérez is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also a core faculty member of the doctoral program in Performance Studies and an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Women’s Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies. Pérez received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and a BA/MA Joint Degree from The University of Chicago. Pérez curated UC Berkeley’s first Latina/o Performance Art series, co-curated Chicana Badgirls: Las Hociconas in 2009 at 516 Gallery, in Albuquerque, NM and curated Labor+a(r)t+orio: Bay Area Latina@ Arts Now at the Richmond Arts Center, CA in 2011. Her most recent essay, “Writing with Crooked Lines,” was published this spring in Fleshing the Spirit: Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives, edited by Linda Facio and Irene Lara (2014). She has recently finished a new book manuscript, Ero-Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial.
Co-sponsored by:
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion
The Office of Student Life Multicultural Center
Roundtable Discussion following the presentation.
