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Humanizing Acts:
Resisting the Historical Erasure of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic
across the US-Mexico Borderlands
May 24, 2023
HG 1010
UC Irvine
Event Schedule:
Session I: Intentional Exchanges and Visibilities
9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction to Humanizing Acts,
Ana Elizabeth Rosas, UC Irvine
“Tianquitzli,”
Amy Sanchez-Arteaga and Misael Diaz, Cognate Collective
“Aspiration as Art, Archive, and Showcase,”
Angelica Flores Valdivia, UC Irvine
“Intentional Trespass: A Reflection on Trans*border Research,”
Dan Bustillo, UC Irvine
Session II: Revelatory Connections
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
“In 2020-Seeing Clearly,”
Sue Cronmiller, El Sol Science and Arts Academy of Santa Ana, California
“…después de la tempestad viene la calma…”: Cariño in the Archives of Mortality Project,”
Mario Alberto Obando, Jr., California State University, Fullerton
“Emergency Contacts: Towards an Intergenerational Labor History of Solidarity,”
Ana Elizabeth Rosas, UC Irvine
Session III: Diversely Emotional Accompaniments
2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
“Grief,”
Alice G.Terriquez, UC Irvine
“There is more to the Recording: Presence and Mortality in Oral Histories,”
Christian Paiz, UC Berkeley
“The Fetish of Migrant Suffering: Necro-Ethnography as Political Accompaniment,”
Adrian Felix, UC Riverside