"How We Belong Now" with Dr. Karma R. Cháves

We're honored to welcome Dr. Karma R. Chávez as our next guest speaker in our Spring 2025 Colloquium Series. See her bio below:

Karma R. Chávez is Chair and Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas - Austin. She is author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (University of Illinois Press, 2013); Palestine on the Air (University of Illinois Press, 2019); and The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance (University of Washington Press, 2021). She edits the Intersectional Rhetorics series at the Ohio State University Press. Karma is an active member of the UT Austin chapter of the American Association of University Professors and a co-founder of UT's Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine.

Please join us March 3rd in LNCO 2910 for her talks on research and pedagogy at the intersections of rhetoric, communities experiencing trauma, and (campus) activism.

• Pedagogical Talk: 1:30-2:30pm
• Scholarly Talk: 3:00-4:00pm