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Panel: Revolutionary Aesthetics and Graphic Solidarities

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm

Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

REVOLUTIONARY AESTHETICS AND GRAPHIC SOLIDARITIES Thursday, February 22, 2024 Panel Discussion 4pm-6pm, followed by reception Van Pelt Library 602, Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion PANELISTS KENCY CORNEJO Associate Professor, Contemporary Latin American & Latinx Art University of New Mexico FERNANDO ACOSTA-RODRIGUEZ Librarian for Latin American Studies, Latino Studies, and Iberian Peninsular Studies Princeton University CARLOS BARBERENA Contemporary Printmaker Bandolero Press & La Calaca Press Defensa

 
Event begins at 4PM. Reception to follow from 6-7PM.  

This panel discussion brings together an assemblage of experts to discuss why we create, collect, and study popular graphic arts as forms of political engagement. Panelists Kency Cornejo, Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, and Carlos Barberena will share their work and experiences as well as respond to the exhibit Revolutionary Aesthetics: Afterlives of Central American Insurgency, on display in the Goldstein Family Gallery from February 8 to May 24, 2024. The Center for Global Collections, in collaboration with co-sponsors the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies and the Wolf Humanities Center, hopes you’ll join us for a lively conversation, moderated by Josué David Chávez, GR’29.

 

Organized by Brie Gettleson, Latin American Studies Librarian. For more information, click here.