José Luis Falconi, PhD

Talks

Talks

“Documentation and its synchronicity: The day that post-photography was born”

Conference Speaker
SITAC XV “The End / El Fin” Mexico City, Mexico March 2022

“Ten years of No Me Token*"

Conference Speaker
“Plural Domains: Art in, of, from Latin America” Lecture Series
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
February 2022

“El objeto gráfico latinoamericano: grabado, mimeógrafo, fotocopia” [The Latinamerican graphic object: Engraving, Mimeographing, Photocopying]

Conference Speaker [In Spanish]
“Cada Cabeza de la Hidra”
Conference del Grabado del Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano
Lima, Perú
December 2021

“El Espia del Inca” [The Spy of the Inca]

Roundtable Speaker and Moderator
[In Spanish]
The Cultural Agents Initiative
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
November 2021

“Salon at the Benton: An Immigrant Vision”

Moderator
The William Benton Museum of Art
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
October 2021

“Recording for Somerville Poetry Festival” (on-line)

Video Pre-recorder presenter of poems in Spanish for Somerville Poetry Festival
Somerville, MA
May-June, 2021

“An Evening with Mapuche Artist Sebastían Calfuqueo”

Speaker on dialogue with artist
Santiago de Chile, Chile /Boston MA
www.tertulia.word
May, 2021

“Tribulaciones del objeto” [Tribulations of the Object]

Conference Speaker
[In Spanish]
“Autoconstucción & algunos procesos aledaños”
Conference Series
Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
Lima, Perú
April 2021

“Immanent Vitalities: Matters of Modern and Contemporary Art; Book Launch”

Round Table Speaker with Kaira Cabañas
University of Florida, Gainesville Gainesville, FL
April 2021

“(Un)Real Ideals: Reconceptualizing the State in Latin America”

Conference speaker (with Prof. James Robinson, University of Chicago)
9th Annual Latin American Policy Forum The Harris School of Public Policy
The University of Chicago Chicago, IL
April 2021

“The Duties of Beauty”

Conference Speaker for MUPD 235 course “Music as a Profession”
Schulich School of Music
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
April 2021

“Proyección y discusión del documental “La Paz” por Tomás Pinzón” [Projection and Discussion on “La Paz” documentary by Tomás Pinzón]

Roundtable Speaker and Moderator
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
March 2021

“Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition. An Evening with President Juan Manuel Santos. A year after”

Discussion participant
Carr Center reflects on Colombia
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
November 2020

“Entre la arquitectura y el arte: El Problema de la Función” [Between Architecture and art: The Problem of Function]

Conference Speaker
“Conversatorio sobre el Ecosistema del Arte”
Escuela de Arquitectura
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
Lima, Perú
November 2020

“Entre el bien y los bienes: Algunos problemas entre ética y estética” [Between goods and the good: Some problems between Ethics and Aesthetics]

Keynote Speaker
(Clase Magistral Internacional)
Universidad Mayor de Santiago de Chile
Santiago de Chile
November 2020

“Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition. An Evening with President Juan Manuel Santos. A year after”

Discussion participant
Carr Center reflects on Colombia
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
November 2020

“Symbolic Reparations Research Project: Origins and Principles”

Conference speaker
International Colloquium on the Inter-American System of Human Rights
UNAM Center at Boston
Boston, MA
October 2020

“Musical Pre-Texts”

On-line Conference Speaker
Webinar Global Leaders Program and LUAN, Emotional Museum https://www.culturalagents.org/news-3
Mexico City, Mexico
July 2020

“Indigenous and Contemporary: The Case of Guatemalan artistas del lago”

Conference speaker
Arco Madrid Art Fair
Madrid, España
February 2020

“Obstinada Negatividad: sincronía documental y Post Fotografía”

Conference speaker
Festival Luz del Norte
Monterrey, México
November 2019

“On the Notion of Resistance”

Conference speaker
“Protest and Performance: Art and Resistance in Latinx Cultures”
Conference Berklee School of Music
Boston, MA
October 2019

“Ekphrasis: Three Latin American Takes”

Lecturer
Latinx Appreciation Day
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA
September 2019

“Memoria Lítica” [Lythic Memory]

Conference Speaker
Book Presentation
“Perla Krauze: Materia lítica: Memoria/Procesos/Acumulaciones”
Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC)
Mexico City, Mexico
August 2019

Elkin Rubiano’s Dissertation Defense

Dissertation Defense Juror and Commentator
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
June 2019

“National Landscape and Its Negation”

Conference Lecturer
"Modernisms in 20th century Guatemala Art 2"
Panel
Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA)
Boston, MA
May 2019

“The role of Symbolic Reparations for the Future of Colombia”

Discussion participant
“Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition in Colombia. An Evening with President Juan Manuel Santos”
Carr Center reflects on Colombia Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
April 2019

“Integral Reparations” with Ana María Reyes and Ana Manuela Ochoa Arias

Panel Speaker
Colombian Conference 2019
Harvard-MIT-Boston University
MIT Wong Auditorium
Cambridge, MA
April 2019

“Tercio excluido: Dos (o tres) problemas del sampling” [Third Excluded: Two (or Three) Problems of Sampling]

Conference Lecturer
Primer Coloquio Internacional: Museo y Crítica Institucional
Universidad de Chile, Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Museo de Bellas Artes Museo de Bellas Artes
Santiago de Chile, Chile
April 2019

“Memories on/for a future reconciliation”

with Renato Cisneros, José Carlos Agüero, Lurgio Gavilán, Alexandra Hibbett, and Alberto Vergara

Roundtable Speaker and Moderator
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
April 2019

“Puerto Rico: Trouble in Paradise”

Round Table panelist
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
April 2019

Screening of “La Negociación/The Negotiation” with Director Margarita Martinez”

Commentator
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
March 2019

“Art with no-borders: A conversation with artists Rubén Ortiz-Torres and Ana Roldán”

Speaker and Moderator
Zona MACO Art Fair
Mexico City
February 2019

“Rubén Ortiz Torres’s in conversation with Jose Falconi”

Speaker
At Zona MACO Art Fair
Mexico City
February 2019

“¿Qué significa reparación simbólica y cómo reconstruye sociedades?" [What does symbolic reparation mean and how does it rebuild societies?]

Panelist Virtual Round Table
Participants include Prof. Doris Sommer, Harvard University and Former Minister of Culture of Peru, Salvador del Solar

https://www.connectas.org/eventos/que-significa-reparacion-simbolica-y-comoreconstruye-sociedades/

Connectas Virtual Platform
December 2018

Workshop and Roundtable on “Implementation of Recommendations and Orders of International Bodies in Individual Cases: Looking at the Future”

Round Table Participant
Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
Washington D.C.
December, 2018

“Lecciones de una caída libre: ¿Qué aprendimos del colapso del fotoperiodismo?” [Lessons from a Falling from Grace: What Did We Learn From The Collapse of Photojournalism?]

Keynote Speaker
16avo Encuentro de Fotografía de Nuevo León, Mexico
Monterrey, Mexico
November 2018

“Lecciones de una caída libre: ¿Qué aprendimos del colapso del fotoperiodismo?” [Lessons from a Falling from Grace: What Did We Learn From The Collapse of Photojournalism?]

Keynote Speaker
16avo Encuentro de Fotografía de Nuevo León, Mexico
Monterrey, Mexico
November 2018

“The Writing on the wall: On Syd Krochmalny”

Lecturer
Lecture for show “Hate in America”
by Syd Krochmalny
Sena Tattoo Gallery
New York, New York
October 2018

“Las escasez de la abundancia: ¿existe realmente una tradición del paisajismo latinoamericano?” [The Scarcity Of Abundance: Does It Really Exist A Tradition Of Latin American Landscape?]

Keynote Speaker
Inaugural Lecture
Coloquio “Paisaje y territorio en el arte colombiano: nuevas perspectivas”
Universidad Tadeo Lozano
Bogotá, Colombia
September 2018

“Entre el Bien y los Bienes: Los límites de la autonomía en el arte” [Between goods and the good: limits of autonomy in art]

Conference Speaker
Bienal de Cuenca
Cuenca, Ecuador
August 2018

“Stubborn Negativity: On Willy Retto’s Uchuraccay Massacre Last Images”

Conference Speaker
Conference Speaker
Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA)
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
May 2018

“Stubborn Negativity: On Willy Retto’s Uchuraccay Massacre Last Images”

Conference Speaker
Andean Permanent Committee Seminar
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
April 2018

“The limits of the Symbolic: Pedro Reyes, Politics and Realism

Conference Speaker
Presentation of Pedro Reyes “Ad Usum/To Be Used”
Carpenter Center for Visual Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
April 2018

“Symbolic Reparations: Between Guarantees and Satisfaction”

Conference Speaker
“Symbolic Reparations in the Americas”
Law School, Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
March 2018

“Quasitopias de Pedro Reyes” [Quasitopias by Pedro Reyes]

Conference Speaker
Presentation of Pedro Reyes
“Ad Usum/To Be Used”
Material Art Fair
Mexico City, Mexico
February 2018

“The Symbolic Reparations Research Project Guidelines”

Conference Speaker
Conference on Human Rights
Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
Washington, D.C.
December 2017

“Publish or Perish? Art History and the Decentering of the field”

Conference Speaker
Department of History of Art and Architecture
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
November 2017

“A la Luz de la Fotografía”

Conference Speaker
Department of Art History, Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Santiago de Chile, Chile
June 2017

“Inventing América”

Conference Speaker
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA
June 2017

“Asedios al Paisaje Latinoamericano I” [Questions to the Latin American Landscape]

Conference Speaker and Convener
Conference “Rumores Íntimos: Paisaje, México y Guerra Fría”
Proyecto Bachué
Biblioteca Nacional de Bogotá y Universidad Central
Bogotá, Colombia
May 2017

“Between Reasons and Causes: Memory Museums 2.0 and the problems of event narrative”

Conference Speaker and Panel Chair
Panel “Symbolic Reparations in Latin America”
Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference (LASA)
Universidad Católica del Perú
Lima, Peru
May 2017

“Los monumentos con las armas de las FARC EP”

Conference Speaker
In: “Conversatorio No. 4 'Acuerdo de paz y justicia transicional, restaurativa y especial para la paz'"
Universidad Externado de Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
May 2017

"State of Latino Art Research Workshop"

Conference Speaker
UPLR’s Siglo XXI Conference
University of Texas
San Antonio, Texas
May 2017

Title: IV Coloquio Fotografía y Discursos

Moderator
Disciplinares “Fotografía, política y representación: re-enmarcar lo documental en las Américas

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, The Graduate Center (GC), The Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), The City University of New York (CUNY)

New York, NY
April 2017

“Tres Problemas Latinoamericanistas para Latinoamérica” [Three Latin American Problems for Latin Americanists]

Keynote Conference Speaker
Centro de Investigación en Identidad y Cultura Latinoamericanas
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José, Costa Rica April 2017

“The Symbolic Reparations Research Project Guidelines”

Conference Speaker and Convener
Conference “Symbolic Reparations”
Mahindra Humanities Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
April 2017

“Exchange Values: On Art and Money, or the Art of Money”

Roundtable Conference Speaker
Art Museum of the Americas
Washington, D.C.
March 2017

“Arte e Incertidumbre” [Art and Uncertainty]

Lecturer
Universidad de Los Andes and Universidad del Bosque
Bogotá, Colombia
October 2016

“Financial Sublimes: Montoya and Financial Landscapes”

Lecturer
Museum of the Americas
Washington, D.C.
October 2016

“Spontaneous Combustion: The Rise of Chilean Conceptual Art circa 1975. A Sketch”

Roundtable Speaker
in Round Table on Chilean Conceptual Art, “Conceptual Stumblings” with Prof. Sergio Delgado, Prof. Thomas Cummins, and Curator Liz Munsell

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
October 2016

“Arte e Incertidumbre” [Art and Uncertainty]

Lecturer
Universidad de Los Andes and Universidad del Bosque
Bogotá, Colombia
October 2016

“De la fotografía a lo fotográfico: un balance preliminar” [From Photography to the Photographic: A Preliminary Balance]

Keynote Conference Speaker
“Indocumentado: Del negativo a la posfotografía”
[Undocumented: From the Negative to Post-Photography]
Kaypunku Journal and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC)
Lima, Perú
June 2016

“Photography After the Negative”

Round Table Speaker
“Indocumentado: Del negativo a la posfotografía”
[Undocumented: From the Negative to Post-Photography”]
Kaypunku Journal and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC)
Lima, Perú
June 2016

“Conversatorio: Aporías de la Fotografía Contemporánea” [Roundtable: Aporias in Contemporary Photography]

Round Table Speaker
“Indocumentado: Del negativo a la posfotografía”
[Undocumented: From the Negative to Post-Photography]
Kaypunku Journal and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC)
Lima, Perú
June 2016

“De la fotografía a lo fotográfico: un balance preliminar” [From Photography to the Photographic: A Preliminary Balance]

Keynote Conference Speaker
“Indocumentado: Del negativo a la posfotografía”
[Undocumented: From the Negative to Post-Photography]
Kaypunku Journal and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC)
Lima, Perú
June 2016

“Photography After the Negative”

Round Table Speaker
“Indocumentado: Del negativo a la posfotografía”
[Undocumented: From the Negative to Post-Photography”]
Kaypunku Journal and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC)
Lima, Perú
June 2016

“Horror Rigor: On the Fear of Spectacle of Frozen Capital”

Conference Speaker
“Art and the Monetary”
Society of Fellows
Columbia University
New York, NY
May 2016

“(Nowhere) Like Home”

Conference Speaker
“Dialogues in the Present Tense: Latino and Latin American Art through the Lens of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA”
The Getty Research Institute
Los Angeles, CA
May 2016

“Dialogue 3: San Diego/Tijuana”

Roundtable Conference Speaker
“ACT! People Design Politics, Politics Design People”
Loeb Fellowship, Graduate School of Design
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
April 2016

“Reality Lies Elsewhere (One Avatar of Realism)”

Keynote Conference Speaker
“Realisms”
1st Graduate Student Conference
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
New York, NY
April 2016

“Reality (Always) Lies Elsewhere: Lessons from Anibal López’s Documenta 13 Testimonio

Conference Speaker
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Boston University
Boston, MA
March 2016

“Gramsci y Mariátegui: ¿Es posible el Culturalismo en las Ciencias Sociales?” [Gramsci and Mariátegui: is Culturalism Possible in the Social Sciences?]

Conference Speaker
Escuela de Ciencias Sociales
Universidad San Carlos
Guatemala City, Guatemala
January 2016

“Art and curatorial experience”

Conference Speaker
Antenna
Santiago de Chile, Chile
November 2015

“Doble margen: ¿Es acaso posible la contemporaneidad desde la periferia?” [Double margin: Can Contemporariness Be Possible In The Periphery?]

Conference Speaker
“Congreso Regional de Arte en Latino America”
Departamento de Estéticas y Arte
Universidad de Chile
Santiago de Chile, Chile
October 2015

“Acts of Presence: Absence and Remembrance in Symbolic Reparations”

Conference Speaker
“International Conference on Symbolic Reparations to the Victims of Human Rights”
Departamento de Derecho Constitucional
Universidad del Externado
Bogotá, Colombia
July 2015

“The Margins of Contemporariness: What Might Amount to Global Art?”

Conference Speaker
Universidad El Bosque in conjunction with the 15 Salón Regional de Artistas
(Zona Centro)
Bogotá, Colombia
July 2015

“Selfhood Displaced: The Inverted Mirrors of Latino and Latin American Art”

Panel Discussion Speaker
Portraiture Now: Staging the Self”
The Americas Society and the Smithsonian Institute for Latino Studies
New York, NY
June 2015

“Memorials, Symbolic Reparations and the Law of Victims in Colombia”

Roundtable Speaker
Conference “Colombia: Building Peace/2015” Colombian Conference at MIT-Harvard and BU”
Boston University
Cambridge, MA
April 2015

“Money Talks: The Works of Santiago Montoya”

Roundtable speaker
Context Art Miami
Miami, FL
December 2014

“Florida Post (Richard) Florida”

Conference speaker
Summit of the Americas 2014
Zambrano Foundation & Miami Dade County College
Miami, FL
October 2014

“Friendly Fire: Aníbal López at Documenta 13”

Conference Speaker
Cannonball
Miami, FL
October 2014

“Fuego Amigo: Fotografía Documental en el Posconflicto” [Friendly Fire: Documentary Photography in Colombian Post Conflict]

Conference Speaker
Universidad de Caldas
Manizales, Colombia
July 2014

“Social Practice in Latin American Art”

Lecturer
Followed by a conversation with Candelario Luaces, Cuban Artist and Director of LASA
San Agustin, Cuba
Dimensions Variable (Art Space)/Knight Foundation
Miami, FL
June 2014

“Local Globalisms: Panel Discussions on Art from Latin America”

Roundtable speaker
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA
April 2014

“Quasi-topias: A Modest Proposal”

Conference Speaker
University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum
Tampa, FL
February 2014

“A Singular Plurality: A Conversation On Dario Escobar and Latin American Art”

Lecturer
Followed by a conversation with Chief Curator Dan Cameron, Orange County Museum of Art
Orange County, CA
November 2013

“Negative Space, Positive History”

Lecturer
“Declassifying the Archive: Art, Visual Documentation, and Human Rights; Post-Dictatorship Chile 40 Years after the Military Coup”

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University
New York, NY
September 2013

“Negative Space, Positive History”

Lecturer
“Declassifying the Archive: Art, Visual Documentation, and Human Rights; Post-Dictatorship Chile 40 Years after the Military Coup”

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University
New York, NY
September 2013

“Bienestares del malestar: Azar y fotografía en la era digital” [The Comforts of Discomfort: Chance and Photography in the Digital Age]

Lecturer
"El malestar y destinos del malestar”
Congreso de Arte y Psicoanálisis
Universidad de Chile
Santiago de Chile, Chile
[In Spanish]
October 2012
New York, NY
September 2013

“Doble(s) negativo: Avatares del documento fotográfico” [Double(s) Negative: Avatars of the Photographic Document]

Lecturer
Programa Formación en Regiones, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes

Delivered in Three Cities in Chile: Valparaiso, Iquique and Santiago de Chile July 2013

“Fake it till you Make It: Fiction and Normativity”

Lecturer
Visual and Environmental Studies 108, "Stranger than Fiction"
Department of Visual and Environmental Studies
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Fall 2012

“Retrato y contrato social en América Latina” [Portraiture and Social Contract in Latin America]

Lecturer
Magistral Conference, Facultad de Artes
Universidad de Chile
Santiago de Chile, Chile
[In Spanish]
October 2012

El margen del margen: una primera aproximación a la mirada de Sergio Larraín” [The margin of the margin: a first approach to Sergio Larraín’s gaze]

Roundtable Speaker with Gonzalo Leiva
Presentation of Gonzalo Leiva’s Sergio Larraín: Biografía/Estética/Fotografía
Editorial Metales Pesados
Santiago de Chile, Chile
August 2012

“International Seminar on Photography in Latin America”

Roundtable Speaker with Arturo Higa, Francesco Giusti and Santiago Escobar
Jaramillo, Seminario Internacional - XI Festival Internacional de la Imagen
Universidad de Once Caldas
Manizales, Colombia
April 2012

“Tabula rasa: If you were to be a piece of wood, what wood would you be? (Notes on Leslie Hewitt’s photography)”

Conference Speaker
Fotografía Otra/Otra Fotografía
International Colloquium of the 1st Biennale of Photography of Lima
Centro de la Imagen
Municipalidad de Lima
Lima, Perú
March 2012

“Imaginación e Imagen: Una observación en torno al status de la imagen fotográfica en la actualidad” [Image and Imagination: Observations on the Status of the Current Photographic Image]

Lecturer
IFotourbe 5.11 5ta Muestra de Fotografía y 1er Festival Regional de Fotografía
Pereira, Colombia [In Spanish]
November 2011

“Occupy Curating? Politics, Protests and the Future of Curatorial Practice”

Roundtable Speaker with Jeffrey Swartz, Alfredo Cramerotti, Oxana Maleeva , Steve Piccolo, William Morrow and Kathy Noble
Dublin Contemporary 2011
(Dublin Biennale)
Dublin, Ireland
October 2011

“La Naturaleza de la Naturaleza: Reflexiones sobre el paisaje latinoamericano” [The Nature of Nature: Reflections on Latin American Landscape]

Lecturer
II Simposio Internacional de Arte y Patrimonio - Arquitectura Vernácula Iberoamericana
Universidad Pablo de Olavide/Seville, Spain and Universidad Ricardo Palma/Lima, Perú
[In Spanish]
September 2011

“Uno a Uno: Una Conversación entre José Falconi y Dario Escobar” [A Conversation between Jose Falconi and Dario Escobar]

Roundtable Speaker
Museo de Arte de Lima
Lima, Perú
May 2011

“Portraiture as Negotiation”

Lecturer
Foto Museo
Bogotá, Colombia
[In Spanish]
May 2011

“Beyond the Object”

Roundtable Speaker and Moderator
Roundtable with artists Luis Camnitzer, Milagros de la Torre and Karlos Karcamo
Museo del Barrio
New York, NY
April 2011

“The Photography of Fernell Franco in Context”

Lecturer
“An Impeccable Solitude: The Photographs of Fernell Franco”
Exhibition Symposia
Museo Nacional de Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
April 2011

“Contemporary Latin American Art without Modernism”

Lecturer
“Private Collectors and Public Collections”
Session of Conversations
Arte Americas Art Fair
Miami, FL
April 2011

“International Seminar on Photography in Latin America”

Roundtable Speaker with Rossangela Renno, Carlos Pineda and Santiago Escobar Jaramillo
Seminario Internacional - X Festival Internacional de la Imagen
Universidad de Once Caldas
Manizales, Colombia
April 2011

“Dos Dobles Negativos - Un índice de efectividad para la fotografía latinoamericana” [Two Double Negatives: An index of effectivity for Latin American Photography”]

Lecturer
Conferencia Magistral
Seminario Internacional - X Festival Internacional de la Imagen
Universidad de Once Caldas
Manizales, Colombia
April 2011

“About Academia: A Conversation with Antoni Muntadas”

Roundtable Discussant
“About Academia: A Project by Antoni Muntadas”
Exhibition
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
March 2011

“No me Token. Latin American Art as Center Stage: Or How to Make Sure We Never Lose the Asterisk Completely (*)”

Lecturer
"Between Museum and Practice: Rethinking Latin American Art in the 21st Century”
Museum of Latin American Art, MOLAA
in partnership with the Getty Research Institute Long Beach, CA
March 2011

“An Impeccable Solitude: The Photographs of Fernell Franco”

Lecturer
“An Impeccable Solitude: The Photographs of Fernell Franco”
Exhibition Symposia
Museo Nacional de Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia
February 2011

“Two Double Negatives: An Index of Latin American Photography”

Lecturer
Department of Visual Arts
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
February 2011

“Latin American Art without (a) Context”

Roundtable Discussant
Pinta - The Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art Show
New York, NY
November 2010

“Concluding Remarks Speaker”

Panel Discussant, Moderator and Presenter
“Transnational Latin American Art. II International Research forum for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars”
Department of Art History
University of Texas Austin, TX
October 2010

“Portraits of an Invisible Country: The Portraits of Jorge Mario Múnera”

Roundtable speaker
Presentation of “Portraits of an Invisible Country: The Portraits of Jorge Mario Múnera”
roundtable with Professor Thomas Cummins, Professor Carlos Rincón, and Juan Manuel Roca Fundación Santillana
Bogotá, Colombia
August 2010

“Entre Ch.ACO y Finlandia: José Luis Falconi and Antonio Arévalo”

Lecturer
Facultad de Arte, Universidad Diego Portales
Santiago de Chile, Chile
[In Spanish]
August 2010

“Cultural Agents: Art as a Resource”

Webinar Panelist
“Cultural Agents and Creative Arts - A Webinar with Doris Sommer, José Luis Falconi, Liz Gruenfeld and Carlo Tognato.
Moderated by Professor Gil Noam”
PEAR, McLean Hospital and Harvard University and the University of Minnesota Extension School
Minneapolis, MN
May 2010

“Focusing on the Change: Photography and its Avatars”

Roundtable Speaker
“Changing The Focus: A Roundtable Discussion between Nelson Garrido, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Liliana Porter and José Luis Falconi”
Museum of Latin American Art
Long Beach, CA
April 2010

“Concluding Remarks”

Panel Discussant, Moderator and Presenter
“Transnational Latin American Art. International Research forum for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars”
Department of Art History, University of Texas
Austin, TX
November 2009

“Vernacular Tactics: On the Work of Damián Ortega and Carlos Amorales”

Conference Speaker
“A Conversation on New Mexican Art Trends”
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Boston, MA
September 2009

“El Papel de la Poesía: En torno a la obra de Raúl Zurita” [The Roll(Role) of Poetry: About the Work of Raúl Zurita]

Conference Speaker
“An Evening with Raúl Zurita - A Homage”
Department of Romance Languages, Tufts University
Medford, MA
March 2009

“Ekphrasis. A Portrait”

Panelist Speaker
“More than Bilingual: William Cordova and Major Jackson”
Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
February 2009

“False Positive. Photography as an Index of Political Failure”

Panel Speaker
“Documenting Peruvian History and the Visual Arts”
The Benton Museum of Art and the School of Fine Arts, University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
February 2009

“Relational Aesthetics: The Challenge of Collaboration”

Guest Lecturer
“Artists on their Art Series”
College of Visual and Performing Arts University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
New Bedford, MA
December 2008

“Last Recourses: Historical Recursiveness, Aesthetic Systems”

Seminar Lecturer
“History as a Flexible Matter”
XXVIII Bienal de São Paulo Fundacão Bienal de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
November 2008

“A Conversation with Claire Bishop on Collaboration and Relational Aesthetics”

Speaker
“Catalysts and Critics - A Conference for theanyspacewhatever Exhibition”
Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY
October 2008

“Mind the Gap: Latino and Latin American Art in New York”

Speaker
“Latino Art Now Conference”
Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College and Americas Society
New York, NY
February 2008

“Indigenism Retouched”

Lecturer
Tulane University Lecture
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
January 2008

“On Latino vs. Latin American Art”

Invited Lecturer
Latino Museum Studies Program, Smithsonian Institute
Washington D.C.
July 2007

“Armando Reverón y la poesía” [Armando Reverón and Poetry]

Roundtable Speaker
“Reading Reverón, Painting Poetry”
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York, NY
April 2007

“Lo crónico de la ‘crónica’ latinoamericana” [The Chronic Of The Latin American "Chronicle"]

Panelist
Cuarto Congreso de Peruanistas en el Extranjero. Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas
Estación Mapocho y Universidad de Chile
Santiago de Chile, Chile
April 2007

“A Space for Latin American Art in the United States”

Roundtable Speaker
Discussion with Rafál Romero, Alex Slato, Gabriela Rangel and Cecilia Fajardo Hill
In: Arte Americas, Arte Americas Art Fair
Miami, FL
March 2007

“The Function of Aesthetical Functionality”

Roundtable Speaker,
On the works of Pedro Reyes
with Pedro Reyes and Doris Sommer, The Americas Society
New York, NY
February 2006

“Deserted exuberances: Lines and Icons of the Pacific Coastal Desert”

Invited Lecturer
Graduate School of Design
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
February 2006

“In lieu of modernity: On the work of Alex Apóstol”

Roundtable Panelist
On Alexander Apóstol, With Bill Kelly Jr. and Alexander Apóstol
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits Los Angeles, CA
September 2006

“The Heavy Machinery of Dreams: Fernando Pessoa, 1913”

Conference Speaker
Assosacão de Lusitanistas Alemães
- A Arca de Pessoa, 70 anos
Leipzig, Germany
September 2005

“Colombian Photography and Common Sense-Reflections on the work of Jaime Avila”

Speaker
Museum Lecture, Museum of Fine Arts
Saint Petersburg, FL
April 2005

“Las causas de las razones: Ann Patchet y el ‘terrorista’ peruano” [The Causes Of The Reasons: Ann Patchet And The Peruvian “Terrorist]

Conference Speaker
Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas
Universidad de Sevilla
Seville, Spain
June 2004

“In the Name of the Shutter: The Photography of Graciela Iturbide”

Conference Paper
Entralogos, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
February 2003

“The Globalized Vampire Villa: Vampires in Latin American literature”

Conference Paper
Replacing the Nation, Comparative Literature Department
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
February 2002

“Concerning suckers and sucking: The Vampiric Narrative of Dalton Trevisan”

Conference Paper
Chair, Encuentro
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
(Tisch School of the Arts, NYU)
Monterrey, Mexico
June 2001

“Arguedas: el puente y el abismo” [Arguedas: The Bridge and the Abyss”

Conference Speaker
Peru dans sa culture Conference
University of Ottawa Ontario
Canada
November 2000

“Derailings: Samuel Beckett”

Roundtable Speaker
On Samuel Beckett with Professor Alain Badiou, Professor Christie McDonald, Professor Leo Bersani and Professor Bruno Bosteels
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
December, 2000

“Bilingual Aesthetics”

Conference Commentator
Harvard University Ethnic Studies Committee Barker Center, Thompson Room
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
December 1999