Moderated by Dr. Sara McKinnon, LACIS Faculty Director
VIRTUAL @ 9:00 am
Past Events
Guided Tour of the Traveling Exhibit “You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography”
Chazen Museum of Art, 750 Unviersity Avenue @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Workshop: “Writing the Many Lives of Juan de Pareja”
David Pullins
University Club, Room 313 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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While the exhibition Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter sought to recover as much empirical evidence as possible about this understudied seventeenth-century artist, this workshop will focus on the vast body of writing about him from the centuries …
“Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez”
David Pullins
Elvejhem L150 @ 5:00 pm
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Reevaluation of Velázquez’s Portrait of Juan de Pareja (1650) reveals the extent to which the field has failed to address questions of race and enslaved labor in seventeenth-century Spanish art and visual culture. Building on research for …
“Godna/Tattoo: The rearticulation of Indian traditions in Post-Indentured Trinidad”
Dr. Vishala Parmasad
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: This paper explores how members of the Indian Trinidadian South Asian diasporic community perceive continuity and change within their identitarian Hindu religio-cultural practices and folk artforms through a historical-anthropological examination of godna. …
Film Screening: “Sujo”
UW Cinematheque, 821 University Avenue @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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THURS., 2/13, 7 p.m. SUJO Mexico, France, USA | 2024 | DCP | 126 min. | Spanish with English subtitles Director: Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez Cast: Juan Jesús Varela, Yadira Pérez, Alexis Varela Growing up …
“Working to Create Home in Latinx Photography: A Talk by Theresa Delgadillo”
Dr. Theresa Delgadillo
Chazen Museum of Art, 750 Unviersity Avenue @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Join Professor Theresa Delgadillo for a talk inspired by the exhibition You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography. This program considers the mythos of the “ideal immigrant” to query portrayals of labor, home, and belonging …
“Exploring ways to address migrant kidnapping in Mexico and extortion in the US”
Joy Olson
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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About the presentation: I will present the problem of migrant kidnapping in Mexico, where extortion payments are demanded of family members in the US. Together we will explore things that can be done to address …
Workshop: “Performing Monuments: Brewing and the Politics of Racial Reckoning”
Danielle Roper
University Club, Room 313 @ 12:00 pm
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This essay examines the function of monuments amid ongoing calls for reparations in the Caribbean and its diasporas. It analyzes I am Queen Mary, a monument created by La Vaughn Belle, an Afro-Crucian artist of the …
“Revenge Fantasies: Black Rage and Racial Reckoning in Black Caribbean Art”
Danielle Roper
Elvejhem L150 @ 5:00 pm
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This talk attends to the function of revenge fantasies in the visual artwork Oficios de Piel Curtida (Labors of Hardened Skin) by the Afro-Colombian artist Fabio Melecio Palacios. The piece appeared in the digital exhibit Visualizing/Performing Blackface in …