HHM 2025 – Afro-Indigenous Symbols in Modern and Contemporary Art

Thank you for celebrating with us! See you in 2026 — and enjoy photos from this year’s event.
 
From mid-September to mid-October, departments across the College honor the cultures, histories and contributions of Americans of Hispanic, Latine/a/o/x and Latin American heritage to our campus, our city and US society at large.
 
Through music, visual arts, lectures, and conversations with community organizers and scholars, we welcome all to learn, celebrate and connect as a community.
 

Afro-Indigenous Symbols
in Modern and Contemporary Art

Speaker: Dr. Margarita Rosa

 

Monday, September 29, 2025
12:15–1:30 pm (Free Hour)
Student Union 125 (Faculty and Staff Lounge)

Food provided

Explore how Afro-diasporic and Indigenous symbols are instrumentalized by artists such as Belkis Ayón, Bony Ramirez, and Abdias Nascimento. Learn to analyze art from both historical and art-historical perspectives.

 

About the Speaker:

Margarita Lila Rosa is a Harlem-based public scholar and curator specializing in Afro-Latinx, Latinx, and Black Atlantic history and contemporary art. Dr. Rosa was born in the countryside of Tenares, Dominican Republic. Raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. She received her Ph. D from Princeton University in Comparative Literature (Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese). From 2021-2023, Dr. Rosa was a Lecturer at Stanford University, where she taught courses on gender and rebellion in the Black Atlantic. Currently, she is a Lecturer in Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College. More about the speaker. 

 

Brought to you by the Office of Student Development and Leadership, the Center for Racial and Religious Understanding (CERRU), the Dominican Students Union, and Latin American and Latino Studies.

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