NYU’s Espacio de Culturas fosters community, conversation, and dialogue in relation to the peoples, cultures, languages and ideas that circulate within, between, and beyond Spain, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas by hosting visiting scholars, writers, artists, and critical thinkers to create and curate innovative events and activities that are free and open to the public.

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Silvia Albert Sopale performance at The Clemente!

On Wednesday, February 26, Blackface y otras vergüenzas will be presented at The Clemente—a one-woman play by our Spring 2025 KJC Chair, Silvia Albert Sopale, exploring racial representation in performance. Friends of Espacio de Culturas can use the promotional code PROMOMLK5 Limited seating availa...

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Join us for the upcoming exhibit opening!

RSVP On October 25, we will celebrate the legacy of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, exploring his travels to the United States and his impactful career as a scientist, educator, scientific diplomat, and global citizen. The event will follow a symposium on neuroscience and the lasting connection between Sp...

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We are hiring!

We are seeking a skilled Administrative Aide II to join the Espacio de Culturas @KJCC. This individual will perform a wide range of clerical, secretarial and general office duties including those of a confidential nature. Prioritize office activities and delegate work to student and/or casual employ...

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Upcoming Events

  • Blackface y otras vergüenzas performance at The Clemente
  • Screen printing workshop with Mobile Print Power (MPP)
  • Film screening Spanish Cinema Now + 2025: Por donde pasa el silencio by Sandra Romero
  • Feminist Poetry Workshop with The New School Scholar, Jennifer Firestone.
  • Flamenco with Zen del Sur
  • Entre lo personal y lo colectivo: Narrativas Afrodescendientes en España.
  • Film screening: Mamífera by Liliana Torres
  • Stage reading: Consejo de Guerra
  • Inconsolable - Performance, written by Javier Gomá
  • Blackface in Conversation: Racial Geographies and Transatlantic Entanglements

    • Past Events

  • Blackness, art, and activism in Spain: Silvia Sopale and Jeffrey Coleman in conversation
  • Under the same sun: Publishing and Performing Latin American Translations in New York
  • To Cervantes with Love: Cervantine Blackness
  • Sephardi Music Concert I Sol y Sombra: In the Wake of the Convivencia
  • Spanish Literary Event: La Cova Day
  • Staged Reading: At the Barricades
  • Special screening of Saturn Return at Instituto Cervantes of New York
  • Transatlantic Dialogues: A conversation
  • Book Launch: Severo Sarduy’s Barroco and Other Writings
  • Fridays on the Patio: Community Care Afternoon
  • Join us for a welcoming afternoon dedicated to survivors and women affected by violence
  • 2024 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize
  • Mi culo es mío, presentación con Mercedes Liska
  • Europe alone? European security at a time of U.S. disengagement
  • Lecture Publishing a Journal Article in Iberian Studies
  • Surrealism and Anti-fascism: The Political Imagination between Reason and Dream
  • Spanish Cinema Now + 2024 I Four's crowd
  • Discussion Student Meet and Greet with Dr. Elvira Dyangani Ose
  • Cortocircuito Closing Night
  • Anti-Colonial Barcelona and the Possibility of a Black Planet
  • De albas y sombras: dos poetas latinoamericanas en traducción
  • Fridays on the Patio: Día de Muertos
  • Feminist Epistemologies and the Global South
  • Curso ELE: Jornadas didácticas para profesores de español
  • Exhibit Exhibit opening: Photography and Neuroscience by Santiago Ramón y Cajal
  • Symposium Symposium: Santiago Ramón y Cajal. USA & Spain Bridges For The Neurosciences
  • Cine Foro: Darién, un documental de Tatiana Rojas Ponce
  • Voices of Resistance: A Dialogue on Quilombola Identity, Colorism and Feminism.
  • Fridays on the Patio: Juegos en el Patio
  • Periodismo y Literatura con Julia Navarro
  • Fridays on the Patio: Arts and Crafts Afternoon
  • Breakfast Takeover Series
  • Las mujeres rurales y los modelos de feminidad de la dictadura franquista
  • Discussion Racism in Brazil and the USA
  • Fridays on the Patio: How to make comics
  • Lecture Behind the Gaze: Spanish Power and Fang Humiliation in Equatorial Guinea
  • Film Spanish Cinema Now + 2024
  • Discussion Moving Diasporic Bodies: Tragicomedy Musical Conversation
  • Reading/Discussion KJCC Poetry Series - Acción de gracias: 20 años de poesía
  • Fridays on the Patio - Digital Media and the Public Humanities: Films, Comics, and Podcasts
  • Reading/Discussion Fridays on the Patio - Across So Many Seas
  • Discussion Narrativa Contemporánea: una conversación con Mariana Enriquez y Kirmen Uribe
  • Reading/Discussion Fridays on the Patio - Discussion and Open Mic
  • Film Film Screening: "Sediments"
  • Discussion Cruce Prim24 - Creative Writing in Spanish
  • Performance Fridays on the Patio - Dive into the theater!
  • Discussion Edad y territorio como vehículos de otrerización
  • Film LOST…Everywhere: A two-day program
  • Fridays on the Patio: A conversation about race in Italy, Spain, and the U.S.
  • Lecture De Quiltras, Chuchas y otras Perras: Lectura y Coloquio alrededor del Feminismo