{"id":17293,"date":"2014-04-28T23:57:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T23:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/via-ucr-today-latino-science-fiction-explored\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T19:27:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:27:18","slug":"via-ucr-today-latino-science-fiction-explored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/via-ucr-today-latino-science-fiction-explored\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-17293 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/via-ucr-today-latino-science-fiction-explored\/attachment\/17294\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n4rmk7VcEN1qbup7mo1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/ucrtoday.ucr.edu\/21579\">UCR Today: Latino Science Fiction Explored<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>RIVERSIDE, Calif. \u2014 The Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Program at University of California, Riverside will host \u201cA Day of Latino Science Fiction\u201d on Wednesday, April 30. The event, which be held in the Interdisciplinary Symposium Room (INTS 1113), is free and open to the public.<br \/>\nThe daylong event begins at 10 a.m. Parking permits may be purchased at the kiosk at the University Avenue entrance to the campus.<br \/>\nScience fiction is a more diverse literature than is generally acknowledged and includes a vibrant tradition of Latino science fiction writers, said Sherryl Vint, professor of English and a science fiction studies scholar.<br \/>\n\u201cLatino science fiction conveys a distinctive vision of the influence of science and technology on daily life, and connects with a strong tradition of speculative writing from Latin America,\u201d she explained. \u201cOur event will foster discussion of the specific ways Latino writers negotiate science fiction\u2019s relationship to the colonialist imagination, and its possibilities for imagining more ethnically inclusive futures.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cA Day of Latino Science Fiction\u201d will kick off with a morning author panel featuring Mario Acevedo, Rudy Ch. Garc\u00eda, Ernest Hogan, Beatrice Pita, and Rosaura S\u00e1nchez.<br \/>\nMario Acevedo is the author of the bestselling Felix Gomez detective-vampire series from HarperCollins. His debut novel, \u201cThe Nymphos of Rocky Flats,\u201d  was chosen by Barnes &amp; Noble as one of the best Paranormal Fantasy Novels of the Decade. He is also the co-author of the financial thriller, \u201cGood Money Gone.\u201d He was a finalist in the Colorado Book Awards and the International Latino Book Awards. His short fiction is included in the anthologies, \u201cYou Don\u2019t Have A Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens\u201d and \u201cHit List: The Best of Latino Mystery\u201d from Arte Publico Press.<br \/>\nGarcia, co-founder of and contributor to La Bloga, is perhaps best known for his alternate reality\/fantasy novel \u201cThe Closet of Discarded Dreams,\u201d which took honorable mention in the International Latino Book Awards\u2019 Fantasy\/Sci-Fi category in 2013.<br \/>\nAuthor of \u201cCortez on Jupiter,\u201d \u201cHigh Aztech,\u201d and the cyberpunk novel \u201cSmoking Mirror Blues,\u201d Hogan has also worked as a consultant, illustrator, and cartoonist.<br \/>\nCo-authors of \u201cLunar Braceros 2125-2148,\u201d S\u00e1nchez is a professor and Pita is a lecturer in the Department of Literature at University of California, San Diego.<br \/>\nFollowing lunch and informal discussion, a short film screening and panel titled \u201cLatinos in Hollywood and Beyond\u201d will take place, featuring Jes\u00fas Trevi\u00f1o, writer and director of \u201cStar Trek: Voyager,\u201d \u201cStar Trek: Deep Space Nine,\u201d \u201cSeaQuest DSV,\u201d and \u201cBabylon 5\u201d; Michael Sedano, La Bloga Latino literature blogger; and UCR Ph.D. candidates Danny Valencia, Rub\u00e9n Mendoza and Paris Brown, who will address the topics of Latino science fiction, SF as pedagogy in Latino communities, and Mexican dystopias and religion, respectively.<br \/>\nThe event will culminate in the donation of Trevi\u00f1o\u2019s papers to UCR Libraries\u2019 Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the world\u2019s largest publicly accessible collection of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and utopian literature, which is housed in Special Collections &amp; University Archives in the Tom\u00e1s Rivera Library. The donation ceremony will followed be immediately by an interview with the writer and director.<br \/>\nThe UCR Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Program is indebted to the Department of English; Tom\u00e1s Rivera Chair in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS); Eaton Collection, UCR Libraries; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of Media and Cultural Studies; and Mellon Science Fiction Group, Center for Ideas and Society for their generous sponsorship of what promises to be a highly engaging and productive day of artistic and cultural exchange, Vint said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via UCR Today: Latino Science Fiction Explored) RIVERSIDE, Calif. \u2014 The Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Program at University of California, Riverside will host \u201cA Day of Latino Science Fiction\u201d on Wednesday, April 30. 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