Film screening and talk with Frances Negrón-Muntaner

Type: 
Theater/Performance
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 15
Room: 
103
Category: 
Thursday, May 10, 2018 - 5:30pm
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Date: 
Thursday, May 10, 2018 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Through commentary and film clips, queer Puerto Rican scholar Frances Negrón-Muntaner discusses the questions, contexts, and challenges of her three-decade practice as an independent filmmaker.

Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a filmmaker, writer, curator, scholar and professor at Columbia University, where she and the founding director of the Media and Idea Lab and also founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activism Archive at Columbia’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library.
 
Among her publications are: Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture and The Latino Media Gap. Her most recent films are War for Guam (2015) and Life Outside (2016). In 2008, the UN’s Rapid Response Media Mechanism recognized her as a global expert in the areas of mass media and Latin/o American studies. Negrón-Muntaner also served as director the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race from 2009-2016.