BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:edu.community.ucla/1.1.0 METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:59ead74f-2be7-4f97-b0ea-b9213d97c364@community.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series with Teresita Lozano DTSTAMP:20240402T171400Z DTSTART:20240430T001500Z DTEND:20240430T001500Z DESCRIPTION:Specters of Survival and Persecution: Ghost Smuggling Ballads\, Hauntology\, and the Undocumented Migrant Experience\n\nMany ghost storie s utilize themes of apparitions and haunting to elicit terror\, warning li steners to abide by moral codes. However\, since 2007\, a phenomenon of Me xican corrido (ballad) composition\, which I define as ghost smuggling bal lads\, shares a collective ghost story meant to elicit hope\, narrating tr ansborder encounters with the ghost of Saint Toribio Romo\, an apparition who smuggles undocumented migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border. Saint To ribio\, also called the Holy Coyote (Smuggler)\, was a priest killed in Ja lisco during the 1926-1929 Cristero Rebellion\, an armed revolt against th e Mexican government in response to anticlerical laws. The Catholic Church canonized Saint Toribio in 2000 but has never recognized him as the patro n saint of immigrants\, a title bestowed on him by migrants. Those unable to risk the pilgrimage back to Saint Toribio’s shrine utilize corridos as musical votives that they share on YouTube\, a space that defies geopoliti cal borders. Building on my ethnographic study of ghost smuggling ballads in Mexico and on social media\, I analyze how these corridos transcend tem poral and physical boundaries\, marked by multiple hauntings beyond Saint Toribio’s ghostly intercessions. I explore how folkloristics evident in co rridos reveal a secondary canonization bestowed by migrants\, venerating S aint Toribio as both a Catholic and folk saint whose mission evolved decad es after his death. Rooted in immigration politics and cultural memory of religious persecution\, ghost smuggling ballads contribute to Saint Toribi o's increasing transborder devotion\, transforming the role of the coyote into a “divine companion” (Hagan 2008) of the migrant journey. Additionall y\, inspired by Derrida’s concept of “hauntology” (1993)\, I explore how t hese corridos – a musical tradition most associated with Mexico’s Revoluti onary past – embody remnants of past traumas and inherited memory of relig ious persecution that haunt the current struggles of undocumented migrants . Additionally\, I examine how such hauntings extend to the experiences of undocumented migrants forced to live invisibly as “ghost workers” (Horton 2016) to avoid apprehension and survive.\n\nDr. Teresita Lozano is an Ass istant Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Te xas Rio Grande Valley. A native of the El Paso\, Texas – Ciudad Juárez\, C hihuahua borderland\, Dr. Lozano engages in research that explores the rel ationship between music\, migration\, religion\, cultural memory\, and ide ntity. Her current monograph project centers on musical and religiopolitic al manifestations of the undocumented migrant experience in the U.S.-Mexic o transborder region. She has presented her research at multiple conferenc es\, seminars\, and symposia in the Americas and Europe. A passionate advo cate for musical and community activism\, she has served as a performer an d Borderland music specialist for projects in public education and immigra nt rights movements\, including Motus Theater’s UndocuMonologues. Prior to her position at UTRGV\, she served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Ethnomusi cology at West Virginia University. She was previously awarded the prestig ious Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for research cent ered on religion and ethics. She is also an alumna of the Smithsonian Inst itution’s Latino Museum Studies Program where she worked in residence as a graduate fellow for the National Museum of the American Latino (formerly the Smithsonian Latino Center). She maintains a professional performance c areer as a flutist and vocalist in diverse global traditions. Dr. Lozano h olds a BME with an emphasis in flute from Baylor University and a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology (Musicology) from the University of Colorado Boulder.\n\n This year's Distinguished Lecture Series has been curated by the second ye ar Musicology PhD cohort with the goal of spotlighting innovative\, interd isciplinary scholarship and work taking place across the sonic spectrum. T he DLS strives to offer opportunities to discuss cultural practices and ap proaches that may be excluded from traditional conversations within the mu sic academy.\n\nEvent Website: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/specte rs-of-survival-and-persecution-ghost-smuggling-ballads-hauntology-and-the- undocumented-migrant-experience/\n\nSource: https://community.ucla.edu/eve nt/59ead74f-2be7-4f97-b0ea-b9213d97c364 LOCATION:Ostin 110A STATUS:CONFIRMED TRANSP:TRANSPARENT X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:FREE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR