The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program cordially invites the campus community to a lecture with Dr. Rojo Robles, Assistant Professor of Black and Latinx Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York.
The talk is entitled “Creative Defiance: The Expansive Writings of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Al Díaz”.
Dr. Robles’s talk will explore these diasporic artists and their profound impact on contemporary art and culture, highlighting their groundbreaking fusion of visual art and written word.
Dr. Rojo Robles is a Puerto Rican writer, filmmaker, and scholar specializing in Latin American, Latinx, and Afro-diasporic literature, cinema, and culture. He holds degrees in Theater (BA), Comparative Literature (MA), and Latin American and Latinx cultures (MPhil; Ph.D.). He is an Assistant Professor at the Black and Latinx Studies Department at Baruch College, CUNY. As a scholar, Dr. Robles has published articles in various journals like SX Salon| Small Axe Project, Voces del Caribe, the Puerto Rico Review, Taller Electric Marronage, Revista Cruce, Revista Iberoamericana, and Transmodernity. He is working on a book and a series of articles exploring Afro-Diasporican maroon poetics and cinegraphic literature. He co-hosts the Latinx Visions podcast and is the co-director of the Black Studies Colloquium.
The talk will take place on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 via Zoom.
You may join the Zoom Meeting here!
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Prof. Enrique González-Conty at egonzalezconty@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
