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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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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Thursday, April 13, 2023, 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm KJCC, 53 Washington Square S, NY 10012 Friday, April 14, 2023, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, 24 West 12th St, NY Comparative Mediterraneanisms: Noucentisme, Novecento, and the Politics of Modernist Classicism Presented by the...
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Wednesday, April 5, 6:30 pm KJCC, 53 Washington Suare S, NY 10012 In Spanish Wine reception In Conversation: Carlos Salado (Director, Criando Ratas, 2016) and Casilda García López (Independent Producer) Screening of: Mala Ruina (Carlos Salado, 2018, Spain, 16 min.), featuring Yung Beef ...
more »Jueves y viernes, 30 y 31 de marzo de 2023. KJCC, 53 Washington Square S, NY 10012 Admisión hasta llenar el aforo. Parte del programa especial “Prácticas feministas”, de Verónica Gago (Spring 2023 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations) ¿Qué significa investigar de...
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Part of the special program “Prácticas feministas”, organized by Verónica Gago (Spring 2023 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations) This conversation was held on Thursday, March 2. Gago and Federici discussed 1970s and contemporary feminist dynamics of politicizati...
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Thursday, March 23, 2023, 6:30 pm. KJCC, 53 Washington Square S, NY 10012 A panel discussion related to the exhibition Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Welcome: **Jordana Mendelson**, KJCC Director and Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and...
more »Thursday, March 2, 2023, 7:00 pm KJCC, 53 Washington Square S, NY, 10012 Reception to follow. No RSVP required. Part of the special program “Prácticas feministas”, organized by Verónica Gago (Spring 2023 Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations) This conversat...
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Thursday, February 23rd, 7:00 pm KJCC, 53 Washington Square S, NY, 10012. KJCC is partnering with MUBI to host a free screening of “Alcarràs,” directed by Carla Simón. The movie won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2022. You can watch the trailer here: https://mubi.com/films/alcarras ...
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Verónica Gago is our Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations for Spring 2023. She teaches political science at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and is professor of sociology at the Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). As a resear...
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Jueves, 2 de marzo Jueves, 30 de marzo Viernes, 31 de marzo Jueves, 20 de abril de 2023 KJCC, 53 Washington Square S, NY, 10012 Programa especial organizado por Verónica Gago, nuestra Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations for Spring 2023. 1. ¿Qué significa h...
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