Announcement: CMAS Fall Sexuality Studies Symposium This Weekend

This Friday and Saturday, the Center for Mexican American Studies will be hosting their Fall Sexuality Studies Symposium - "Sexing the Borderlands: From the Midwest Corridor and Beyond."  The keynote address will be delivered by José Esteban Muñoz, Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, who will speak on "The Brown Commons: The Sense of Wildness."AMS professor and Associate Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies, Dr. Nicole Guidotti-Hernández, will be moderating a panel on Saturday, "Shameless Sex: From Porfirian Ruins to the UFW" at 11:00 a.m. in the Santa Rita Suite (3.502) of the Texas Union.This event is sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies; the LGBTQ/Sexualities research cluster in the Center for Women's and Gender Studies; the Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies; the Performance as Public Practice program in the Department of Theatre and Dance; the Latino Media Studies program in the College of Communication; and the Department of English.