Detroit´s Rivera: public art, film and labor

Introduction and Screening by Julio Ramos

Julio Ramos has written extensively about literary and visual culture in Latin America and the Caribbean.  His books include _Desencuentros de la modernidad en América Latina: literatura y política en el sigo XIX_ (1989; translated by John D. Blanco as _Divergent Modernities_ in 2002), _Paradojas de la letra_ (1996, 2007), and _Sujeto al límite: ensayos de cultura literaria y visual_ (2012).   In 1990 Ramos edited and introduced Amor y anarquía: los escritos de Luisa Capetillo. His audiovisual and documentary work includes _La promesa_ (1995, co-directed with M. Panasitti, N. Schüll, C. Penna et al.),  _Detroit´s Rivera: The Labor of Public Art_ (2017),  _Mar Arriba: Los conjuros de Silvia Cusicanqui_ (2011), and _Retornar a La Habana con Guillén Landrián_ (2014), co-directed with Raydel Araoz.   Since retiring from UC Berkeley in 2010, Ramos has continued to work as an independent researcher and has taught as a visiting professor or adjunct at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Quito),  Universidad de Puerto Rico (Río Piedras),  Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (Cuba),  Universidad Nacional de Rosario,  Universidad de Buenos Aires, University of Pennsylvania, and Fordham University.

Venue: KJCC Auditorium / 53 Washington Square South, NYC