KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Migrant Lots/Migrant Horizons
Edgar Garcia, UNIVERSITY OF Chicago
Migrant Lots/Migrant Horizons is a talk that seeks to revalue migration, emphasizing not just migration crisis but migration creativity and world creation. It examines a few creation stories of the Americas in which migration features prominently then transitions to the world-making poetics of contemporary hemispheric movement even amidst so many scenes of death and devastation. In doing so, it prompts the question of how we engage politically difficult objects of inquiry, and what values we assume in doing so.
