The Latinx Project’s Graduate Student Working Group Symposium: Open Call

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The Latinx Project Graduate Student Working Group (GSWG) invites applications from graduate students (MA/MFA/PhD) for our second annual symposium at New York University. Inspired by a set of topics salient to the inquiries of Latinx performance studies, Black studies, and queer of color critique. The Latinx Project GSWG Symposium seeks contributions that speak to the world-making activity that happens in and with the dark. More than a term that has historically been used to index racialized and abject categories, we approach the dark as an aesthetic mode, a tool for the creation of alternative geographies, a time for intimacy and resistance to be performed from deviant and presumably disempowered positions and spaces. What can practitioners of the dark teach us? How do we turn to the dark as a source of power and information? Where can the dark lead us?  

Participants may choose to address the following topics, but are welcome to explore others

    Geographic matters, practices, and struggles
    Visuality and the politics of color
     Nightlife aesthetics, textures, and architectures
    Alternative spiritualities and otherwise worlds  
    Dark acoustics and subcultures
    Negative affective worlds and atmospheres
    Sensuality and viscerality
    Science, technology, and media

Our symposium will take place in-person on February 20, 2026. More details to come.