Name: Re-Seeing Together: Pláticas as Collaborative Visual Literacy Across Time
Start: 2026-10-07T11:00:00-0400
End: 2026-10-07T11:30:00-0400

Re-Seeing Together: Pláticas as Collaborative Visual Literacy Across Time

Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT

Circular Church

This presentation positions pláticas, a culturally grounded dialogic practice rooted in feminist and Chicana/o scholarship, as a form of collaborative visual literacy and a structured way of seeing one's own experience through the eyes of others across time. Drawing on a collaborative autoethnographic study of three Puerto Rican bilingual educators in rural North Carolina, the presenter examines how a three-session plática approach created conditions for shared memory-making. The study draws on a personal archive of over 1,800 handwritten diary pages and 63 blog posts produced during the researcher's own migration, which served as the analytical foundation for the collaborative sessions. Each plática session opened with voluntary artifact sharing that helped participants ground abstract memories in concrete images. By modeling vulnerability and sharing first, the researcher established confianza (trust) as an epistemological condition rather than a relational courtesy. What emerged was a collaborative act of re-seeing. Participants helped each other identify colonial structures that had remained invisible or normalized in individual memory. The paper argues that pláticas constitute a visual literacy practice that makes legible the images people carry internally of themselves, their profession, and their place in institutions. This presentation offers visual literacy scholars a model for participatory, culturally sustaining approaches to memory research that center positionality and shared experience as conditions of collective sight.

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María Heysha Carrillo Carrasquillo

Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Hawai`i - West O'ahu

Dr. María Heysha Carrillo Carrasquillo is a scholar, educator, and storyteller whose work sits at the intersection of language, place, and social identity in multilingual education. María Heysha is an assistant professor of early childhood education at the University of Hawai`i... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Circular Church

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