The keynote address by linguist and poet Ofelia Zepeda on December 2 is part of the conference "Desert Futures: Sahara/Sonora." She is a MacArthur Fellowship Genius grantee for her work in Indigenous Linguistics as well as her brilliant poetry.
This conference is part of a series of three interdisciplinary conferences being held at Yale, Notre Dame, and Williams College. At these conferences, a wide range of languages, methodologies, and research practices are encouraged and in conversation with each other, with a primary focus on cultural and textual representations of deserts. Our presenters conduct research in a number of disciplines, including English literature, French literature, Arabic literature, Spanish literature, Latina/o/x studies, area studies, geography, history, anthropology, sociology, religion, political science, and gender studies. Research languages include Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and Tamazight.
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For more information, contact Francisco Robles.