Our Keynote Speaker for this year’s conference is Dr. Susan Antebi, Professor of Latin American Literature at University of Toronto.
Dr. Antebi specializes in disability and corporeality in twentieth-century Mexican cultural production. Her most recent book, Embodied Archive: Disability in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production, engages with science fiction and eugenics such as Eduardo Urzaiz’s Eugenia (1919). Dr. Antebi is also co-editor of The Matter of Disability: Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect, in which she also contributed an essay on the corporeal and transactional experience of the Mexico City subway system. Her work has been funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant and a Chancellor Jackman Faculty Research Fellowship.
Conference co-chairs Dr. Allison Hammer and Dr. Stephanie Peebles Tavera are excited to welcome Dr. Antebi to Tulum, where she will speak to the conference theme, “elsewhere and elsewhen / en otros lugares y otros tiempos,” by focusing on the use of the past and archives as a form of witnessing past injustices and imagining alternative futures in Mexico, Latin America, or elsewhere. Click here to know more about Dr. Antebi’s work.