South Hall 1623
This talk by Alejandro Villalpando (Associate Professor, Latin American Studies & Pan African Studies, Cal State LA) is a meditation on the project and praxis of abolition from a South Central American positionality, meaning a diasporic Central American organizer, agitator, and public intellectual who came of age in South Central Los Angeles. The work invites us to make a connection with those who came before us, the life around us, and the life that will come after us, and ask what we want for each other. For those vulnerableized by centuries of violence, abjection, and systematized abandonment? How can our work/s contribute to the re-mending and building of new worlds or better yet, the way the Zapatistas of Southern Mexico remind us, a world where many worlds fit? No easy task. This talk will be moderated by Giovanni Batz (Chicano/o Studies, UCSB).