Check out the LxC Ecosystem Panels at ASA 2025!
LifexCode labs, projects and members are part of several panels at the 2025 American Studies Conference!
If you’re in San Juan for the annual American Studies Association conference scheduled for Nov. 20th - 22nd, check out the following panels featuring LifexCode members!
For more details, see our panel listing below and the ASA Program here.
Thu, November 20, 9:45 to 11:15 am, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 203 (AV) | Sarah Bruno, Yomaira C Figueroa-Vasquez, Kiana González Cedeño, Jessica Marie Johnson, Yafrainy Familia, Chair: Nadejda Webb | Non-paper session, “Visioning Practice: Spaces of Hope and Labor”
Fri, November 21, 9:45 to 11:15 am, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 204 (AV) | Rosa E. Ficek, Natalia Hernández Mejías, Natalia M. Betancourt Malavé, Anais Couvertier Garay, Lauren Prince, Sarah Bruno, Chair- Kiana González Cedeño| Roundtable Format, “Digital Solidarities: Archiving Caribbean Lives in the Face of Empire”
Fri, November 21, 1:15 to 2:45 pm, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 202-B (AV) | Kiana González Cedeño, Shantee Rosado, Melanie Rodríguez Vázquez, with comments by Isar Godreau | “Feeling Empire and Facing the Future: A Reckoning and Rupture”
Fri, November 21, 4:45 to 6:15 pm, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 204 (AV) | Aaron Katzeman, Gabrielle Tillenburg, Dalina A. Perdomo Álvarez, Chair: Pedro Noel Doreste Rodríguez, with comments by Taína Caragol | Paper Session, “Islands, Invaded: Contemporary Art, Film, and U.S. Empire”
Fri, November 21, 3:00 to 4:30 pm, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 207 (AV) | Daniel Nevárez Araújo, Marie Cruz Soto, Cruz Soto, Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, Aurora Santiago Ortiz, Chair: Marisol Lebron | Roundtable, “Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies Pt. 2: Resistance and Multimodal Avenues for Activism and Self-Determination”
Fri, November 21, 4:45 to 6:15 pm, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 207 (AV) | Amarilys Estrella, Paul Joseph Lopez Oro, Omaris Z. Zamora, Ashley Coleman Taylor, Moderator: Petra Rivera-Rideau, Chair: Yomaira C Figueroa-Vasquez| Roundtable Format, “15 years of The Afro-Latin@ Reader: Past and Future Directions”
Sat, November 22, 9:45 to 11:15 am, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 103-A (AV) | Jonathan Toro, Pedro Noel Doreste Rodríguez, Adriana De Persia Colón | Constructed Paper Session, “Literary and Digital Puerto Rico”
Sat, November 22, 1:15 to 2:45 pm, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 207 (AV)| Petra Rivera-Rideau, Vanessa Díaz, Luis Rivera-Figueroa, Chair: Aurora Santiago Ortiz with comments by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo and Jade Power-Sotomayor | Roundtable, “DTMF: Bad Bunny and Sounds of Resistance in Puerto Rico”
Sat, November 22, 4:45 to 6:15 pm, Puerto Rico Convention Center, 208-C (Analog) | Julián Posada, Lauren Klein, Jessica Marie Johnson, Nadejda Webb, Chair: Nikko Stevens | Roundtable: “Imagining Computing After American Empire”
See also presentations from one of our seeded out labs, Taller Entre Aguas!






