
Keynote speaker: Frances Aparicio
Frances Aparicio is a Professor of Spanish and Potuguese, as well as the Director of the Latina and Latino Studies Program at Northwestern University. She is the 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.
Other speakers include:
- Sam Saldivar
- Chris Gonzalez
- Theresa Rojas
- Torsa Ghosal