The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center promotes research and teaching on Spain and the Spanish-speaking world at New York University, including free public programs for a general audience that highlight the history, politics and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.
Gabinete Fang, or the “Fang Cabinet,” is a project that seeks to explore how memories (historical and personal, national and institutional, archival and artistic, oral and corporeal) are drawn, appropriated, stored, and brought back out again as part of a prolonged (and often violent) history of the...
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En este seminario estudiaremos, de modo interactivo, el arte como modo de transitar, el arte como vehículo de expresión y sanación y el arte como salvavidas y medio de vida. Tomando como punto de partida una revisión colectiva (feminista, trans-inclusiva y anti-racista) del Art-Brut y el arte “outsi...
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NYU’s KJCC and Grey Art Gallery are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability. The program features newly commissioned work by Dorothy Cheu...
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In Latin America, we live in urgent times that require us to rethink our relationship with the past and with the remnants of multiple temporalities. Zones of extractivism, dispossession and specific violences—a violence of conquest, some authors would say—are mixed with recognition, cultural soverei...
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Dr. Carles Guerra (Visiting Professor in Catalan Studies, CEMS) Introduced by Edward Dioguardi (NYU, American Folk Art Museum) Respondent: Camille Robcis (Columbia University) Based on years of research about Francesc Tosquelles (1912-1994), a Catalan psychiatrist working in the early 20th-ce...
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EVENT | LECTURE November 1, 2023 | 7:00 PM This presentation considers the far-reaching legacies of colonial ways of seeing and understanding the world. It specifically discusses the complexities and contradictions of contemporary representations of Spain’s colonization of Equatorial Guinea, and ...
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Join Galician musician, writer and educator Cristina Pato (NYU KJCC Chair 2019-2020) and Basque musician Lore Amenabar Larrañaga in a conversation about cultural identity and its relationship with musical languages. In this dialogue with Steinhardt Department of Music's SPAIN arts & culture visitin...
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In February 2017, the Mexican State issued a public apology to three ñañú/otomí women who had endured unjust imprisonment since 2006. This formal apology took place in one of the auditoriums of the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology. What resonance does the history of this museum—and its relati...
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Created and Curated by Madeline Millán, in collaboration with Professor Pilar Blanco-Ruiz Co-Curators William Viquez-Mora and Natalia Ramírez Thanks to the Department of Modern Languages & Cultures; the Department of Photography & Media Relations; the Center for Book Arts and the 2b2c The Ken Cro-Ke...
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Join us for an enriching evening celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month as we as we delve into the world of "El Abraham de Nuevo México" with esteemed author and diplomat Eduardo Garrigues, who will share delegate Pedro Baptista Pino’s previously unpublished report to the Spanish Cortes about the mostl...
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The Paglaban Pilipino Literature Project This past summer, with the generous support of Dr. Jordana Mendelson and the KJCC, I had the incredible opportunity to perform research as the first undergraduate visiting scholar. When I came to the center at first, I was under the impression that I would w...
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This lecture will start from some practices of research: indigenous archives buried in Argentinean dunes in the 19th century and later exhumed by the military; archives and letters buried near Mexican community museums at the time of the Revolution; buried archives of "cédulas reales" given to indig...
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Stephen Sondheim's final musical production, "Here We Are", inspired by two Buñuel films, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel, will have its world premiere in New York at The Shed in September of 2023 (previews start on September 28th with official opening night on Octo...
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The KJCC will host a roundtable discussion moderated by KJCC Director Jordana Mendelson, featuring film scholars Jo Labanyi (NYU), Carlos Saldaña (NYU), and Andrew Uroskie (NYU), along with the curator and architect Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid)...
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The upcoming fall semester brings a change in the composition of our KJCC staff. We are thrilled to welcome Marina Garde, who will be assuming the role of Assistant Director at the Center. Meanwhile, after nearly two decades of dedicated service, Laura Turégano will transition to a new position as ...
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INTERNSHIP AT KJCC: 2 credits (8-10 hours) / 4 credits (12-16 hours) Administered through the Department of Spanish & Portuguese with approval from Internship Director, Lourdes Dávila: lourdes.davila@nyu.edu Or internship course credit through another department with approval of KJCC Director an...
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Friday, April 21, 2023, 3:00 - 5:00 pm KJCC, 53 Washington Square S, NY 10012 Food from La Morada. Join us for an exciting event about migration, archives, and mutual aid! In the auditorium, Sibylle Fischer, Ellen Noonan, and Bárbara Pérez Curiel from NYU’s Migrant Records Lab will lead a...
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Jueves, 20 de abril, 7:00 pm KJCC, 53 Washington Square S, NY 10012 Reception to follow. No RSVP required. Parte del programa especial “Prácticas feministas”, de Verónica Gago (Spring 2023 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations) Partimos de una hipótesis: la caract...
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Miércoles, 19 de abril, 7:00 pm KJCC, 53 Washington Square S, NY 10012 IN SPANISH. RECEPTION TO FOLLOW. Foto: James Rajotte Fascinated by Greek and Roman legends since childhood, Irene Vallejo (Zaragoza, 1979) studied Classical Philology, earning a European Doctorate from the Universities o...
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Taller | Investigación feminista: metodologías y prácticas de experimentación Parte del programa especial “Prácticas feministas”, de Verónica Gago (Spring 2023 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations) Este taller se realizó el jueves y viernes, 30 y 31 de marzo de 202...
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