Ithaca College

Please join IC's Latin American Studies Program and Department of Art History for a lecture by Dr. Kency Cornejo (University of New Mexico), on "War, Feminicidio, and Migration: Central American Art on Systematic Gendered Violence."  She'll speak in the Handwerker Gallery on Thursday, November 5th, at 6 pm, as part of the Latin American Studies Program's event series focused on Central America.

Kency Cornejo teaches modern and contemporary Latin American art history at the University of New Mexico and specializes in the art of Central America and its diaspora. She obtained her PhD from Duke University and holds an MA from UT Austin and a BA from UCLA. Her research and teaching interests center on the intersection between race, gender and coloniality and the resulting decolonial methodologies, visualities and gestures in art. Topics she explores include creative responses to femicide, immigration, prisons, captivity, transnationalism, gangs, and indigenous rights and epistemologies. She especially theorizes decolonial methodologies as manifested in performance art, conceptual art, installation, and new media in the Americas. She is a recipient of the Fulbright-Hays DDRA and the Ford Dissertation Fellowship, among others, and has presented her work throughout the U.S., Central America, Mexico and Brazil. Kency was born in Los Angeles to Salvadoran immigrant parents and raised in Compton, California.

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