Dr. Gonzalez Conty is Associate Professor of Spanish at Ithaca College and Director of the Cine con Cultura Latinx American Film Festival. His research focuses on Caribbean Literature and Film, literary history, theories of the archive, and the New Latin American cinema.
He is currently working his book manuscript entitled Archiving the Revolution: Claiming History in Cuban Literature and Film which examines the role of literature and film in the construction of the Cuban Revolutionary Filmic Archive.
Dr. Rojo Robles is an Assistant Professor of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is also the artistic director of El kibutz del deseo, an interdisciplinary artistic project that produces theater, film and publishes fiction and poetry.
His research and his courses are focus on Latin American, Latina/o/x, and Afro-diasporic literature, film, and intermedial cultures with an emphasis on Puerto Rico. He is currently writing a book manuscript tentatively titled Expansive Poetry: Intermedial Works in Boricua Diasporas that examines disperse poetic archives and Boricua experimental artifacts of dissent.
Sessions will feature open discussion and dialogue with students and faculty in attendance.
The initiative is a collaboration between faculty from Ithaca College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, the Cine con Cultura festival, and the Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival.
