SELECT CONFERENCES & GUEST LECTURES
Discussant in ArtsLibris at the ARCO Madrid International Contemporary Art Fair, organized by Meteoro Editions, 2020.
“Oppositional Literature as Practice. The Fanzine Publications of Queer Activist Groups in 1990s Spain,” invited guest lecture at Cornell University, 2019. “Queer Formations on the Move: Mapping the Creative, Kinetic Protest Actions Unfolding in 1990s Madrid”. Mobilizing Affect: Populism and the Future of Democratic Politics in Spain, organizada por el Dr. Bryan Cameron, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, 2019. Presentación del libro Poéticas de la oposición con Ione Belarra (Portavoz adjunta, Unidos Podemos, Congreso de los Diputados de España) y Hugo Coria (Editorial Brumaria), La Morada Arganzuela, Madrid. “Organizing resistance in the fanzine literature of queer activist groups in Spain (1970s to present).” Between the frames: Politics and visual print media from Spain since 1975. Symposium co-organized by Bryan Cameron and Rhiannon McGlade, Queen’s College, University of Cambridge, 2018. “La cultura underground como modo y medio de resistencia: El caso de los fanzines de movimientos queer en España (1990 - 2010)”. Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cine Españoles del Siglo XXI (ALCESXXI) Conference, Zaragoza. En Solidaridad: Asamblea, Acción, Activismo panel co-organized by Juli Highfill and Nina Molinaro, 2017. “La burbuja inmobiliaria en La comunidad, de dir. Álex de la Iglesia”, invited guest lecture, Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA), Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. “Having Another Look at Loss: Framing the Photographic Encounter as a Poetic Device,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, Harvard University. Visual Culture and Its Discontents: Theory, Image, Politics panel co-organized by Julián Daniel Fernández Albilla and Patricia M. Keller, 2016. “The Making of Homo Oeconomicus, or, Reading the Cultural Mechanics of Neoliberalism in Contemporary Spain,” invited guest lecture, Dept of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Michigan, 2015. “Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida: Back to the Future,” roundtable and book release with eds. H. Rosi Song and William Nichols, and contributors Juan Pablo Wert Ortega and Héctor Fouce. Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE), 2014. (Video recording here) “Learning from Indignation: Practices of Oppositional Literacy in the 15M Movement in Madrid,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, New York University. Madrid, Cartographies of [a] Capital panel, organized by Silvia Bermúdez, 2014. “¿Qué es el capitalismo avanzado? Un análisis de La comunidad (dir. Álex de la Iglesia, 2000)”, invited guest lecture, Cornell-Michigan-Penn Consortium in Seville, Spain, 2014. “Dethroning the Sovereign. The Spanish Monarchy, from Punk Rock to Political Humor,” International Institute of Spain, Madrid. The Spanish Monarchy in Crisis panel organized by ACCENT International, 2014. “About Times of Crisis in Spain: Reading the Impasse in Nophoto’s El último verano,” invited guest lecture, A. D. White House, Cornell University, organized by Romance Studies Dept, 2013. “On Reading Fragments. The Creative Process as Philosophy,” presentation of A Thousand Pieces: An Short Archaeological History (Mooooon Publishing, 2012) by Ira Lombardía, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2013. “Comparing and Contrasting Civil Responses in Times of Crisis: Lessons from the Arab Spring, Madrid’s 15-M Movement & OccupyWallStreet,” the International Institute of Spain, Madrid. Organized by ACCENT International, 2013. “¿Cómo leer fragmentos? Una indagación en el proceso creativo como filosofía”. Presentation of artist’s book Mil pedazos: Una breve historia arqueológica by Ira Lombardía, El Matadero Cultural Center, Madrid, 2012. Transición, conference series. Coordinator, NYU Madrid. Talks by Beatriz Sierra Santos (Ministry of Labor and Immigration), Dr. Alicia G. Montano (Director of Informe Semanal, TVE), Dr. Teresa Delgado (U de la Habana), Vladimir Cruz (Director and actor), among others, 2010-11. |