Intimate Architectures: Displacement, Irruption, and Emergency in the Americas

Hemispheric Encounters was pleased to co-present with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, the 6th Hemi Graduate Student Convergence, October 4-8, 2021, at the University of Chicago. Participants took part in one of ten working groups and praxis workshops focused on topics within the broader conference theme of space, visibility, movement, irruption, and transformation. The online Convergence conference featured keynote lectures by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Frances Negrón-Muntaner; the Body Codes panel with Honey Crawford, Zahira Kelly, and Mario LaMothe; the Critical Ecologies Panel with Edgar García, Macarena Gómez Barris, and Mayra Santos Febres; and virtual performances by Sofia Moreno and Suzy Shock. A big thanks to all of the organizers, participants, and to Hemi for their work on this terrific event.