Palabras y poder roundtable: Giannina Braschi y María del Pilar Blanco
March 18, 2025 @ 5pm
Host: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
Q&A: Emilia Quiñones-Otal
Palabras y Poder Roundtable
Martes, 18 de marzo a las 5 PM
Mesa redondo con Maria del Pilar Blanco y Giannina Braschi
Palabras y Poder Roundtable
María del Pilar Blanco
Associate Professor in Spanish American Literature; Fellow of Trinity College
Professor Blanco has published on the haunted landscapes of the Americas, in particular the way in which processes of modernisation create different narratives of haunting as well as how differing landscapes breed different ideas of ghosts and haunting. Her current book project, Modernist Laboratories, explores the intersections between literary and scientific innovation in Spanish America between 1870 and 1910, particularly Mexico, Cuba and Argentina. She is co-investigator in the Science in Text and Culture in Latin America research network, which focuses on early examples of popular science publishing in Spanish America and the links between scientific modernisation and nation-building projects.
Emilia Quiñones Otal, Directora de HUMA
Emilia Quiñones-Otal was born in 1986 in Mayagüez Puerto Rico and lives and works between Mayagüez and San Juan Puerto Rico. She has curatorial experience of 10 years working in exhibitions in Spain and Puerto Rico. Her works include In-Out House, Circuitos de género y violencia en la era tecnológica (Valencia, Spain 2012-2013), Más allá de la capucha (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2017), and other exhibitions and curatorial projects. She is also a founding member of the first curatorial collective in Puerto Rico: Trans Forma, a women only curatorial group. The collective has organized not only exhibitions, but also public events, interviews and dialogues with local curators, artists, exhibition space coordinators and art historians to participate actively in the development of research and creation in Puerto Rico. Emilia Quiñones-Otal holds a PhD in Art History from the Universidad de Valencia, Spain (2014) and is an adjunct professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus.
Hosted by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Ph.D., Catedrático, Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez