THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest In collaboration with: Northwestern University, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, Michigan State University, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Images 2 & 3: Sandra Cisneros’s Novels, AIMS Caramelo & The House on Mango Street FUTURE LATINX FESTIVALS INITIAL QUESTIONS • To bring together scholars from across the Midwest to • How do Latinas/os in the Midwest create communities and explore the importance of Midwestern Latinx efforts at • COLUMBUS: Columbus Caribbean Festival sustain themselves? placemaking in formal and everyday performance, (September 9) • How are Latinas/os impacted by the physical and material literature, and cultural and arts centers • Strengthen Latinx Studies networks through collaborative climate and environments of the region? • CLEVELAND: Puerto Rican Parade (August 20) • and regionally focused research and curricular projects How do Latinas/os reflect upon, react to, and transform • AKRON: Latino Heritage Festival (August 26-27) their cultural and physical environments to create • SPRINGFIELD: Festival Latino (September 9) sustainable communities? • CINCINNATI: Cincinnati Hispanic Fest • How do Latinas/os manage to sustain these communities METHODS (September 9-10) amongst culturally, politically, and socially hostile climates? Some of the research methods used in this project include: • DAYTON: Dayton Hispanic Heritage Festival • Ethnographic fieldwork (September 16) • Participant observation • Formal & informal interviews LITERATURE & FILM • Interdisciplinary research PROJECT PARTICIPANTS This cluster will examine the role of Latinx placemaking in film, • Collaborative workshops fiction, essays, poetry, autobiography, memoir, graphic novels, Image 6: Latinx Placemaking Team • Principal Investigators • Archival research • Geraldo Cadava, Associate Professor, History, and YA literature (published in both English & Spanish) from the Northwestern University • Textual and Discursive Analysis and Interpretation Midwest or about Latinx life in the Midwest. By doing so, this • Theresa Delgadillo, Professor, Comparative Studies, cluster seeks to generate new research on the The Ohio State University Image 1: La Placita Festival on June 10, 2017 underrepresented genre of Latinx Midwestern literature & film, • Claire Fox, Professor, English, University of Iowa – and analyzing events and gatherings dedicated to Latinx film & • Ramón Rivera-Servera, Associate Professor, Performance Studies, Northwestern University literature that are held in the region. Participants involved in the cluster: Geraldo Cadava, Theresa • Participants Delgadillo, Ariana Ruiz, Leila Vieira • Karen Mary Davalos, Professor, Latinx Studies, University of Minnesota • Delia Fernandez, Assistant Professor, History, Images 4 & 5: Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Michigan State University • Larry LaFountain, Assistant Professor, Latinx Center, Cleveland, OH Studies, University of Michigan • Sergio Gonzales, Graduate Student, History, UW- Madison • Ariana Ruiz, Assistant Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, University of Iowa • Sandra Ruiz, Assistant Professor, Latinx Studies & English, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

• Graduate Collaborators • Laura Fernandez, Spanish & Portuguese, OSU • Marie Lerma, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality PERFORMANCE CULTURAL & ARTS CENTERS Studies, OSU This cluster will be examining the formal and everyday • Leila Vieira, Spanish & Portuguese, OSU This cluster will examine the formation of cultural, arts, & QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CONCERNS performance in Latinx communities in the Midwest, including community centers, and efforts to claim space, among Latinx • For more information on this research, please contact: Professor • Undergraduate Research Assistants the histories of/possibilities for Latinx performance, its groups in collaboration with local and regional community audiences and reception, and how they have responded to Theresa Delgadillo, Department of Comparative Studies and Latina/o • Genevieve Arce, California State University-LA leaders who have been active in these efforts to generate new Studies, Email: [email protected] • Sophie Delacruz, Grand Valley State University changing environmental, political, and socio-cultural climates. archives, analyze the kinds of placemaking these institutions • For questions about your rights as a participant in this study, or to A major component to this cluster has been research on enact and allow, and consider contemporary and future discuss other study-related concerns or complaints with someone who Latinx ethnic festivals across Ohio to examine their role in pressures on that kind of formation. is not part of the research team, please contact: Ms. Sandra Meadows, defining Latinx communities & identities. Office of Responsible Research Practices, (614) 688-4792; or email: Participants involved in the cluster: Theresa Delgadillo, Laura Participants involved in the cluster: , Karen Mary Davalos, [email protected] Fernandez, Larry LaFountain, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Delia Fernandez, Claire Fox, Sergio Gonzalez, Elena Gutierrez, Sandra Ruiz Marie Lerma