The 2025 LTC Fornés Institute Symposium
Sat, 3/22 · 10:00 am—6:30 pm · Forum, Lewis Arts complex
Lewis Center for the Arts; Latinx Theatre Commons
Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) presents the 2025 María Irene Fornés Institute Symposium, a one-day convening of scholars, artists, students, advocates, and others invested in the life, work, and legacy of playwright, director and educator, María Irene Fornés (1930-2018).
Taking place in the Lewis Arts complex at Princeton University, the 2025 symposium will celebrate the pathbreaking publication of María Irene Fornés in Context (Cambridge University Press), a volume featuring the work of more than thirty artists, advocates, and scholars, which is slated for digital and hardcover publication in July 2025.
The 2025 symposium will offer a series of plenary play readings from Fornés in Context in tandem with a constellation of hosted breakout conversations engaging questions of context, legacy, and engagement around Fornés’s work.
Just as the 2018 symposium launched the current wave of scholarly, artistic, and community engagement with the work of María Irene Fornés, the 2025 symposium is designed to activate the next wave of critical, creative, and collaborative explorations of the Fornésian tradition.
A co-production of the Latinx Theatre Commons and the Lewis Center for the Arts, this symposium is made possible by support from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and Princeton University’s Effron Center for the Study of America, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Program in Latino Studies, Program in Latin American Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, and Humanities Council.
