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VIDEO | Aurélie Vialette: Contar y ser contadas. La genealogía de la Baronesa de Wilson o cómo repensar España, América y sus mujeres desde el siglo XIX
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Aurélie Vialette, professor at Stony Brook University, was at KJCC on Thursday, November 10, as part of Pura Fernández, Fall 2022 KJC Chair, Program “Todas deberíamos ser escritoras - Contar y ser contadas: autoras iberoamericanas en red”.
Vialette participated in the conversation “La genealogía de la Baronesa de Wilson o cómo repensar España, América y sus mujeres desde el siglo XIX.” The discussion was moderated by Pura Fernández and introduced by Patricia González (NYU). You can watch it here or below:
Vialette earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in worker culture, social movements, gender studies, and penal reform. Her first book is titled “Intellectual Philanthropy: The Seduction of the Masses” (Purdue UP, 2018) and received the North American Catalan Society Best Book Award in 2019. In 2021 she co-edited “Dissonances of Modernity: Music, Text, and Performance in Modern Spain.” The volume “The Legacies of Slavery in Modern Iberia (19th-21st centuries),” co-edited with Akiko Tsuchiya, will appear soon at SUNY. Her new book looks at penal colonies in the Philippines in the nineteenth century and is titled “Disposable Bodies: Penal Colony, Race and Biopolitics in the Prison Archipelago.”