Speculative Choreographies: Bodies, Economies, and Movement in a World in Flux

Dates - 3 days

Oct 23 – Oct 25, 2026

The conference examines how bodies move through—with and against—systems of control, extraction, discipline, and erasure in a post-truth moment shaped by spectacle, migration, media, labor, and ecological extremes. It asks what possibilities emerge when movement is imagined as an affirmative form of world-making. The site is the original Tongva village of Puvungna, meaning 'gathering place,' featured in Tongva/Gabrieleno/Acjachemen creation stories and emergence narratives. Conference co-chairs

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