Symposia & Publications

Cultural Centers as Neighbors Havens: an interview with Libertad O. Guerra. Latinx Spaces. 2020.

Brown University. Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Invited lecturer to Public Humanities Now: New Voices, New Directions series. (2020. Upcoming)

Deutsches Haus. NYU. How We Live: The Future of Urbanity, Affordability and Mobility in the Modern Metropolis. 2019.

Hindsight Conference. Keynote Fire-side Chat Panelist. 2019.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC). Facilitator at 8th Annual Manhattan Community Arts Breakfast. 2019.

Decolonize + Sanctuary. NYU’s English Department. A Conversation with Decolonize this Place and Libertad O Guerra. 2019.

Nathan Cummings Foundation. Co-editor, contributor and producer for robust public programming and catalog publication linked to Pasado Y Presente: Art after the Young Lords 1969-2019. 2019. 

Arts and Democracy Network and NOCD-NY. Panelist in nation-wide webinar WALKING THE TALK: Putting Racial and Cultural Equity Values into Practice. 2019.

National Arts Club. Public conversation about alternative housing and land politics. Chaired by Michael Kimmelman, Senior Critic at the New York Times. 2019.

FIELD Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism. Contribution essay. SovereignTies: The Shared Sovereignty of Trust, Culture, and Land.’ January 2019. PUBLICATION

MoMA P.S.1. Panelist at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, for the expanded edition of Syeus Mottel’s ‘CHARAS: The Improbable Dome Builders’. 2018.

El Museo del Barrio. Chair and moderator of Before and Beyond Relief: Grassroots and Art Initiatives in Puerto Rico. 2018.

Martin Segal Theater, Graduate Center. Panelist and co-organizer for Puerto Rico: Theater After Hurricane Maria. 2018.

FABnyc at Downtown Art. Panelist at Murals, Messaging & Organizing: Artists & Organizers in Conversation’ -part of The People’s LES series. 2018.

Printed Matter. Panelist at Delirium and Resistance – book launch and conversation with Gregory Sholette. 2017.

Bronx Documentary Center. Panelist at the 4th Annual Bronx Gentrification Conference. 2017.

Public Theater’s Public Forum. Panelist at the intellectual engagement series, ‘A Conversation on the Legacy of Radical Protest’, with Miguel Algarín (co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe), Monica Dennis (Black Lives Matter), Dread Scott (revolutionary art-maker), Bobby Seale (activist and co-founder of the Black Panther Party). 2016.

Vera List Center for Arts and Politics. Chair and panelist  for Prefigurative Politics’ -at the Post Democracy series. 2016.

Bronx Museum. Contribution essay for Presente! The Young Lords in New York exhibition catalog. 2015.

Bronx Documentary Center. Moderator of ‘The House I Live In’ talk with a producer and discussion on US drug policy, and human rights. 2013.

Bronx Museum. Panelist in Bronx Grand Concourse: A Cultural Map. 2013.

Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. Publication of ‘Our Uncommon Commonalities: Aesthetic Politics of Place in the South Bronx’ in Issue #8 Grassroots Modernisms. 2011. PUBLICATION

PRSA 2010 International Conference. Chair and moderator for panel Re-Membering Loisaida: The Visible/Invisible Puerto Rican Body in the Downtown Art Scene. 2010.

Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College. Chair and co-producer of Re-Membering LOISAIDA 2-day conference of panels, roundtables and performances:  ‘On Archiving:‘Lure of the Retro Lens’ and ‘Visualizing Hindsight’. 2009.

LASA Conference, Rio de Janeiro. Chair and panelist in ’Spanic Attack: Living, Making, and Reading the Latin/o American City. 2009.

New York / Berlin: Kulturen in der Stadt. Contribution essay ‘Building the Aura: a social aesthetics of placement in-the-making.‘ volume edited by Stemmler, Sussanne. 2008. PUBLICATION

NYU’s Department of Latino Studies. Panelist in Esto A Veces Tiene Nombre:  Latino Art Collectives in a Post-Movement Millennium. 2008.

The House of World Cultures, Berlin. Panelist in Transcultural Capital of The City forum, part of the NewYork/Berlin Conference (in junction with the  New York States of Mind exhibition sponsored by Queens Museum of the Arts). 2007.

LASA Conference, Montréal. Presented the paper ‘Putting Latin/o American Art in Place: A New Pan Americanism of Formal Dis-placement’. 2007.

NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS). Chair and panelist in Going Down for Real: Imagining the Estate of our Town– A temporal comparison between La Movida in Madrid and Fashion/Moda in the South Bronx, on topics of creative resurgence after dictatorship periods, economic disinvestment and urban decay at Millennium Film Workshop, East Village. 2006.

NYU’s Fales Archives. ‘Fashioning the Public Space’ a research paper is included as part of Fashion/Moda archive. This same research paper is also included as part of the AS-AP archives. 2005.

Spanish Cultural Ministry of Lima, Perú. Publication of ‘Ataque Manifesto’ on official catalogue of the visual arts exhibition La Marginal. 2004.

Université Laval, Québec. Lecturer of ‘The Revenge of the Impertinents’ in the symposium Impertinence et Questionnement at later published as a book article.  2000.

Impertinence  et  Questionnement. Contribution essay, ‘The Revenge of the Impertinents’, volume edited by Jonathan Roberge and Yan Senechal. Botakap:Montréal. 2001. PUBLICATION