Caribbean Subjects: Media, Culture and Representation

This event will explore the uniqueness and the particularities of the cultural production and the ubiquitousness in the transnational cultural industries of Caribbean subjects. Bringing together a group of scholar of cultural industries, popular culture and race and gender dynamics in the region the presentations will explore the genealogies of Latino culture, the migration and cultural borrowing, cultural networks and the tensions between national identities and cosmopolitanism, high culture and popular culture. Speakers include Frances Negrón Muntaner (Columbia University), Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU), Arlene Dávila (NYU), Odette Casamayor (University of Connecticut), Alex Trillo (Saint Peters University), Zaira Rivera (Universidad de Puerto Rico), Luis Albert (Universidad de Puerto Rico), Wilfredo Burgos Matos (CUNY), and Yesenia Fernández Selier (NYU).

The keynote for this event will take place at KJCC at 6:30 p.m.

Co-Sponsored by NYU KJCC and NYU Media, Culture and Communication Department.