Scholar Social with Ana María Reyes

Scholar Social with Ana María Reyes02mar8:45 pm8:45 pm

Event Details

Join us for a conversation with Ana María Reyes, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Latin American Art and Architecture at Boston University, to place the story and themes of Alma in both a historical and contemporary societal context.

Speakers for this event

  • Ana María Reyes

    Ana María Reyes

    Ana María Reyes, is an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Center for Latin American Studies and American and New England Studies at Boston University. She is also Affiliated Researcher, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and founding member of the Symbolic Reparations Research Project. Her book The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2019) studies symbolic violence in the context of Cold War aesthetic and modernization discourses. She co-edited with Maureen Shanahan Simón Bolívar: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon (University Press of Florida, 2016) on cultural bolivarianisms as a case for the arts and humanities in democratic thinking. She is currently working on a second monograph, To Weave and Repair: Symbolic Reparations in Colombia’s Peace Process.

    URL https://www.bu.edu/haa/profile/ana-maria-reyes/