Bringing the Border to Columbus | Performing Ourselves, Performing Our Histories: Latinx Stories of a Pandemic

Photograph of border wall dividing mountainside
April 16, 2021
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Zoom

Date Range
2021-04-16 13:00:00 2021-04-16 14:30:00 Bringing the Border to Columbus | Performing Ourselves, Performing Our Histories: Latinx Stories of a Pandemic Bringing the Border to Columbus Virtual Symposium April 12-16, 2021 This performance piece engages with the Oral Narratives of Latin@s in Ohio archive and finds common ground on the stories/histories of other Latina/o/x by creatively devising a piece that is centered on our collective experiences during COVID-19, as it relates to language, culture and mental health. The performance uncovers and provides greater insights into the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ohio. It seeks to present a collective voice that reflects Latinas/os/x unique impacts of social distancing, social and economic lockdown and illness on their daily lives. Presenters PerformancerUS | Elena Foulis, senior lecturer in Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, with Ohio State students Paloma Pinillos Chávez, Lidia Garcia Berrelleza, Manuel Bautista, Heder Ubaldo, Micah Unzueta, Liz Morales *Introduction by Anna Babel | Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University) Accessibility If you have questions or require an accommodation, such as live captioning or interpretation, to participate in these events, email Event Coordinator Melissa Rodriguez (rodriguez.796@osu.edu). Requests made two weeks before an individual event date will generally allow us to coordinate seamless access, but the university will make every attempt to meet requests made after this date.  Acknowledgments This event was funded by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery theme. It is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program, Center for Folklore Studies, Urban Arts Space, Department of Sociology and Institute for Population Research. Zoom America/New_York public

Bringing the Border to Columbus Virtual Symposium
April 12-16, 2021

This performance piece engages with the Oral Narratives of Latin@s in Ohio archive and finds common ground on the stories/histories of other Latina/o/x by creatively devising a piece that is centered on our collective experiences during COVID-19, as it relates to language, culture and mental health. The performance uncovers and provides greater insights into the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ohio. It seeks to present a collective voice that reflects Latinas/os/x unique impacts of social distancing, social and economic lockdown and illness on their daily lives.

Presenters

  • PerformancerUS | Elena Foulis, senior lecturer in Spanish, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University, with Ohio State students Paloma Pinillos Chávez, Lidia Garcia Berrelleza, Manuel Bautista, Heder Ubaldo, Micah Unzueta, Liz Morales
  • *Introduction by Anna Babel | Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Ohio State University)

Accessibility

If you have questions or require an accommodation, such as live captioning or interpretation, to participate in these events, email Event Coordinator Melissa Rodriguez (rodriguez.796@osu.edu). Requests made two weeks before an individual event date will generally allow us to coordinate seamless access, but the university will make every attempt to meet requests made after this date. 

Acknowledgments

This event was funded by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery theme. It is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program, Center for Folklore Studies, Urban Arts Space, Department of Sociology and Institute for Population Research.