2019 Graduate Symposium Keynote Lecture: Macarena Gómez-Barris
November 08, 2019
2019 Graduate Symposium Keynote Lecture: Macarena Gómez-Barris
Friday, November 22, 2019 6:30-8:00 PM
Pacific Northwest College of Art
511 NW Broadway Ave Portland OR 97209
The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies is excited to welcome Macarena Gómez-Barris to present a public lecture on her work and research as part of the 2019 Graduate Symposium: Art and Environmental Justice.
Macarena Gómez-Barris is a cultural critic, author and Chairperson of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute. She is founder and Director of the Global South Center, a hub for critical inquiry, aesthetic praxis, and experimental forms of social living. Macarena works on cultural memory, race, queer and decolonial theory, and rethinking the anthropocene. She is author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, a book that theorizes social life through five extractive scenes of ruinous capitalism upon Indigenous territories (Duke University Press, 2017). She is also author of Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Politics in the Américas (UC Press, 2018), Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (UC Press, 2009), and co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards a Sociology of a Trace (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Macarena is author of numerous essays in art catalogues, including work on Laura Aguilar, Julie Mehretu, Cecilia Vicuna, and Carolina Caycedo, as well as essays in numerous peer reviewed journals. She is co-editor with Diana Taylor of Dissenting Acts, a Duke University Press series.
Free and open to the public.