Ithaca College

Dr. Alejandra Zambrano (Modern Languages and Literatures) presented at the 2015 Lozano Long Conference: Nuevas Disidencias: Youth Culture, Transnational Flows, and the Remaking of Politics in the Americas at The University of Texas at Austin. Her paper focused on the international education programs of La Poderosa Media Project, an organization that promotes youth empowerment, collaborative learning, and cultural empathy through visual arts programs in the Americas.

The Lozano Long Conference builds on scholarly work in the fields of Latin American studies and Latina/o studies surrounding social justice struggles and grassroots activism across the hemisphere. At the center of this inquiry, the 2015 Conference placed youth engagement in contemporary struggles for social justice in the Americas through civil disobedience, art, performance, and other collective artistic and activist endeavors. By bringing together activists, artists, and scholars at The University of Texas at Austin to address these issues, the Institute of Latin American Studies is intent on taking seriously some of the ways in which young people in Latin America are altering political spaces and ideas.