ISLAA Forum: Latin American and Latinx Art Pre-Dissertation Plataforma at the Graduate Center, CUNY
Event poster with detail of Phillip Thomas, General Manley, 2016. Mixed media on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist.
The Graduate Center, CUNY - Kelly Skylight Room 9100
November 14
6–7:30 PM
The ISLAA Forum: Latin American and Latinx Art Pre-Dissertation Plataforma is a new annual event providing support to CUNY Graduate Center doctoral students of Latin American and Latinx art and visual culture for the development of their research and to foster an international network of scholars throughout the Americas.
The Pre-Dissertation Plataforma this year invites Dr. Petrina Dacres, Head of Art History Department at Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica, to present a keynote lecture, “Strategies of Anti-Heroic Caribbean Art.”
The following day, selected Graduate Center doctoral students will discuss their research in a closed workshop with Dr. Dacres. Fellows include:
Kerry Doran, PhD Candidate, Art History, “The New ‘New World’: The Visual Culture of Personal Computing, 1968–2004,” Mountain View, Palo Alto, and San Francisco, California
Cathryn Jijón, PhD Candidate, Art History, “Amazonian Modernities: Art, Extraction, and the Nation in Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru (1920–1990),” Quito, Ecuador; Lima and Iquitos, Peru
Suzie Oppenheimer, PhD Candidate, Art History, "The Gulf Stream: Visual Culture Between the United States and Caribbean, 1840–1940,” San Juan, Puerto Rico
Quinn Schoen, PhD Student, Art History, “School of Siqueiros: Neorealist Networks and New Muralism in the Global Cold War,” Mexico City, Mexico
Tue–Sat: 12–6 PM Sun–Mon: Closed
Tue–Sat: 12–6 PM Sun–Mon: Closed
