November 18: Monday:
8:30AM-9AM:
Opening Ceremony: Matthew David Goodwin and Sarah Hernandez
Curandero Blessing: Mario Del Angel-Guevara and Eliseo "Cheo" Torres
9AM-10AM:
Ramona Emerson: “From Shutter to Exposure”
(Respondent: Jennifer Nez Denetdale)
(Respondent: Jennifer Nez Denetdale)
10AM-10:15AM:
Break
10:15-11:15AM:
James Padilioni: "The Mystery of Beautiful Light"
(Respondent: Christy Frederick)
11:15AM-11:30PM:
Break
11:30-12:30PM:
Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez: “The Cryptidification of the Indigenous & the Making of Dark Settler Heritages”
(Respondent: Travis Torres Thompson)
12:30AM-1:30PM:
Lunch:
1:30PM-2:30PM:
Dale DeForest: "Superstitions in the Darkness"
(Respondent: Sarah Hernandez)
2:30PM-2:45PM:
Break
2:45PM-3:45PM:
Cathryn Merla-Watson: "The Mystery of San Antonio's Ghost Tracks: Colonial Non-Sense and the Politics of Legibility" (ZOOM)
(Respondent: Ruben Loza)
3:45PM-4PM:
Break
4PM-5PM:
Bernadette Marie Calafell: "Malintzin, La Llorona, and the Bad Woman Archetype: Embracing the Monster in Me"
(Respondent: Dante Olivas)
7PM-8PM:
Ayden Castellanos: "The Ghoul's Guide to Podcasting"
(With Rebecca Martinez-Baca) (At the Casita)
November 19: Tuesday:
8:30AM-9AM:
Matthew David Goodwin: "More Key Concepts in CMS”
9AM-10AM:
Kara McCormack: "Alien Encounters: Race, Memory, and UFO Tourism in Roswell, New Mexico" (ZOOM)
(Respondent: Colton Campbell)
10AM-10:15AM:
Break
10:15AM-11:15AM:
Jenny Rice: "A Starseed’s Guide to Awakening (Or, Redpilling Yourself into the Pre-Enlightenment Future)"
(Respondent: Ashley Martinez)
11:15AM-11:30PM:
Break
11:30-12:30PM:
Matthew David Goodwin: “Even More Key Concepts in CMS”
12:30AM-1:30PM:
Lunch:
1:30PM-2:30PM:
Ayden Castellanos: "Susto: Live from the Beyond"
(With Rebecca Martinez-Baca)
2:30PM-2:45PM:
Break
2:45PM-3:45PM:
Jenny Rice: “Research Methods in Critical Mystery Studies” (Workshop for Graduate Students)
3:45PM-4:00PM:
Break
4PM-5PM:
UNM Chicana/o Studies Graduate Students: "Fictions in the Future"
7PM-9PM:
Closing Ceremony: Storytelling by Candlelight (At the Casita)
Gabino Noriega
November 20: WEDNESDAY:
Critical Mystery Studies and the Middle Ages:
Graduate Student Presentations at the Frank Waters Room in the Zimmerman Library
4:00 – 4:15 PM: Greetings and Opening Remarks
Nahir I. Otaño Gracia: Opening remarks
4:15 – 5:00 PM: Otherworld Mysteries and Appropriations
Avery Basch: "Liminal Times in Irish Texts: Encountering the Otherworld at Samhain"
Laurie Price: "Tristanic Appropriations of Celtic Otherworld Features and Spaces"
Sydney Brazil: "'I am a man:' Constructions of Monstrosity in Ywain and Gawain"
5:15 – 6:00 PM: Popular culture and the Mysteries of the Otherworld
Gia Arellano: "A Court of Thorns and Roses and the Celtic World"
Maryam Tadayon: "Terrains of Gender: Female Agency and the Irish Landscape in Myth and Modernity"
Avery Armstrong: "Reincarnating the Morrigan: Restorative Readings on Alterity in the Goddess"
6:15 – 7:00 PM: Identity as Mystery in the Global Middle Ages
Darian Wharton: "The Mouth as Site for Identity in Three Global Medieval Texts"
Grace Bell: "Body Horror within The Four Branches of the Mabinogi: Otherworldly Spaces as forums to Physically and Theoretically Dissect the Morality of the Human Body"
Katie Despeaux: "False Blood: Pregnancy and Power in the Mabinogi and Popul Vuh"
