Brujos, Beyond Representation: Decolonizing & Queering TV We are cosponsoring a screening of the web-tv series Brujos followed by a discussion with Ricardo Gamboa, Isaac Gomez, and Justin Ignatius Mitchell on re-imagining political television in the digital age. Students will get to discuss how one makes political media content outside of the world of cable and network TV. February 26,
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Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and the Department of Art & Public Policy, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Rising sea levels, drought, food insecurity, intensified hurricanes, and wildfires are some of the many markers of the exacerbating climate crisis. Despite the
Migration as Survival in the Era of Climate Crisis Read More »
Abstract: Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are used to analyze the Chief Eunuch’s origins in East
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Presentation and dialogue moderated by Edward Sullivan
LATIN AMERICA’S 1968 COLLOQUIM: MARTA MINUJÍN Read More »
The exhibition will explore how artists are responding to displacement through their work and practice and will provide a platform for examining visual strategies among contemporary Latinx artists. Participating Artists: Groana Melendez, Francisca Benitez, Melissa Calderon, Tony Peralta, Mi Casa No es Su Casa, Alicia Grullon, Jehdy Vargas, Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez, Roy Baizan, Shellyne Rodriguez. The
PELEA: Visual Responses to Spatial Precarity Read More »
How are Latinxs racialized through Language? Stanford professor Jonathan Rosa will be discussing his new book Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in a predominantly Latinx Chicago public high school and its surrounding communities, this presentation approaches Latinidad as a crucial site from
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A conversation with independent curator Yasmin Ramirez, and artists Alicia Cristina Grullon and Yasmin Hernandez who will reflect on Marta Moreno Vega’s work and the impact and legacy of her publication exposing and exploring cultural equity, and the task of decolonizing institutions, art history, and more. Yasmin Ramirez, Ph.D., is an independent curator who specializes
Voices From the Battlefront 25 Years Later Read More »
Author Ed Morales and Professor Ana Maria Dopico from NYU Spanish and Portuguese department will discuss Morales’ new book Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture. Ed Morales is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral
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A discussion of the latest insights on Latinx media, including research on audiences and the state of cultural criticism, the newest on digital platforms, and the larger policies affecting net neutrality and media access with a focus on key strategies for engagement and activism for making change. The panelists include: Jillian Baez is an associate professor at
The State of Latinx Media Read More »
What are the different tools for combating racism today, after Obama’s presidency and the backlash of the Trump regime? What do the tools of struggle and emancipation look like, and do aesthetics play a role? Please join us as activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis discusses in the “Politics & Aesthetics in the Era of
