Migratory Journeys to the United States as Seen Through Contemporary Mexican Theater

About This Event

The era of refugees and migrants, encompassing most of the 20th and 21st centuries is characterized by displaced and transient human masses. Through the lens of contemporary Mexican theater, the journeys these migrants engage in as they search for a better life are presented in plays written by Mexican dramatists such as Hugo Salcedo, Victor Hugo Rascón Banda, Angel Norzagaray, and Manuel Talavera Trejo. Their plays depict thousands of anonymous actors in heroic, treacherous, and tragic journeys across some of the most unwelcoming topography between Mexico and the United States.

Featured Guests

• Iani Moreno, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies; History, Language & Global Culture; Suffolk University, Boston

Co-sponsors

• Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Latino Latin American Studies Program
• Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
• Central New York Humanities Corridor