Decolonial Hope, Speculative Futurity: How Latinx Literature and Culture Teach us to Persevere in Times of Polycrisis

UCI LATINX HUMANITIES RESEARCH CLUSTER PRESENTS

“Decolonial Hope, Speculative Futurity: How Latinx Literature and Culture Teach us to Persevere in Times of Polycrisis”

a talk with Dr. David j. Vázquez

November 17 2026 th HG 1010 4 pm - 6 pm

DR. DAVID J. VÁZQUEZ

IS CURRENTLY A PROFESSOR OF CRITICAL RACE, GENDER, AND CULTURE STUDIES AND DIRECTOR OF THE LATINA/O/X STUDIES PROGRAM AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY. IN ADDITION TO THIS ROLE, HE ALSO SERVES AS THE 2025 - 2027 PRESIDENT OF THE LATINA/X/O STUDIES ASSOCIATION WHILE CONTRIBUTING TO VARIOUS ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS AS BOTH AN AUTHOR AND CO-EDITOR. HE HAS PUBLISHED TWO MONOGRAPHS, TRIANGULATIONS: NARRATIVE STRATEGIES FOR NAVIGATING LATINO IDENTITY (MINNESOTA 2011) AND DECOLONIAL ENVIRONMENTALISMS: CLIMATE JUSTICE AND SPECULATIVE FUTURITY IN LATINX CULTURAL PRODUCTION (TEXAS 2025), WHICH HE WILL BE DISCUSSING DURING THIS LECTURE.