Latin American Critical Cultural Studies Working Group

A Conversation with Tania Brugera

Artist Tania Bruguera
Fri
Oct
10
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Date
Friday, October 10, 2025
Time
4:30pm - 6:00pm US Eastern Time
Event Location
Jenkins Nanovic Hall, Room B062
United States
Event Type
Latin American Critical Cultural Studies Working Group
The Latin American Critical Cultural Studies Working Group focuses on Latin American Studies with a critical cultural approach. It is a space for discussion of humanities that are equally fundamental to the debate on Latin American democracies and development. Issues like migration, poverty and inequality, civil and human rights, modernization processes, collective memory, social movements and feminism, authoritarianism, and racial violence cannot be properly analyzed without inclusion of their expressions in the arts and literatures of the region.

For more information, please contact the chairs.
Cochairs: Vanesa Miseres, Maria Rosa Olivera Williams, Magdalena López

A Public Conversation in Spanish

Tania Bruguera
Senior Lecturer in Media & Performance, Theater, Dance
Media Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies
Harvard University

Magdalena López
Visiting Associate Professor,
University of Notre Dame

Tania Bruguera (Cuban, b. 1968) is an internationally renowned contemporary artist and activist. Her performances and social interventions focus on political power dynamics and their implications for social justice. 

Through long-term projects like Catedra Arte de Conducta, Immigrant Movement International, and Institute for Artivism Hannah Arendt (I NSTAR), she has challenged institutional norms and reshaped collective memory, education, and politics. 

Bruguera has been honored with prestigious awards such as Velazquez Prize, Prince Claus Laureate, Arnold Bode Prize, and Al pert Award, among others. Her work has been showcased worldwide including the Tate Turbine Hall, Documenta, and the Venice Biennale. She had solo projects at MoMA, Queens Museum of Art, Centre d'Art Pompidou, and Hamburger Bahnhof Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, among others. She received honorary doctorates from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art. 


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