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Revolutionary Aesthetics and Graphic Solidarities

This panel discussion brings together an assemblage of experts to discuss why we create, collect, and study popular graphic arts as forms of political engagement.

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February 22, 2024, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
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Kislak Center Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
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Open to the Public

Hosted by: Center for Global Collections

Illustration of a tractor in the foreground, tank in the background. Text reads "Defensa y produccion, una sola trinchera!"

Panelists Kency Cornejo, Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, and Carlos Barberena will share their work and experiences as well as respond to the exhibit Revolutionary Aesthetics: Afterlives of Central American Insurgency, on display in the Goldstein Family Gallery from February 8 to May 24, 2024. The Center for Global Collections, in collaboration with co-sponsors the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies and the Wolf Humanities Center, hopes you’ll join us for a lively conversation, moderated by Josué David Chávez, GR’25.

No registration is required for this walk-in event.

Featured image from the Fred Morgner Central American political ephemera collection, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries