Revolutionary Aesthetics and Graphic Solidarities

Forum on Revolution

February 22, 2024 (Thursday) / 4:00 pm—6:00 pm

Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 3420 Walnut Street

Revolutionary Aesthetics and Graphic Solidarities

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

Kency Cornejo

Associate Professor, Contemporary Latin American & Latinx Art, University of New Mexico

Presented by the Center for Global Collections

Panelists Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, Carlos Barberena, and Kency Cornejo 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. All are invited to join for a lively conversation moderated by Wolf Humanities Center associate scholar Josué David Chávez, followed by a reception.

Cosponsored by Penn's Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies and Wolf Humanities Center.

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Free and open to the public.

Registration not required.

In association with Time and Revolution, a February 23 symposium examining how revolution and impasse disrupts neat boundaries between past, present, and future.

Featured image from the Fred Morgner Central American political ephemera collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Image from the Fred Morgner Central American political ephemera collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

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Free and open to the public.

Registration not required.

In association with Time and Revolution, a February 23 symposium examining how revolution and impasse disrupts neat boundaries between past, present, and future.