In Conversation: Professors Patricio del Real, Ana María León, and José Luis Falconi

Join Professors Patricio del Real, Ana María León, and José Luis Falconi in conversation on the exhibition Signal and Strata and its exploration of geology, capitalism, mythology, and cultural memory. 

6:00—8 PM, Theater, Lower Level

Patricio del Real is known for his expertise in the field of architecture and architectural history, with a focus in the Americas. He is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

Ana María León's work traces spatial practices and transnational networks of power, resistance, and solidarity. Her essays have been published in numerous journals and edited anthologies, she has edited and co-edited special issues on commodity cultures, settler colonialism, and revolution, and is co-founder of several collectives laboring to broaden the reach of architectural history. León is author of Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires (2021) and is currently finishing two books, a monograph on spatial solidarities in 1970s Chile and a co-edited collection on spatial histories of unfreedom (with S.E. Eisterer). She is currently Associate Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

José Luis Falconi, is a professor of art and human rights at the University of Connecticut, as well as the president of Cultural Agents, Inc., an NGO which promotes civic engagement and creativity through artistic education. From 2001 to 2011, Falconi was the art forum curator at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, curating more than thirty shows of cutting-edge Latino and Latin American artists in an academic setting. His latest academic publications include Portraits of an Invisible Country: The Photographs of Jorge Mario Múnera (2010), A Singular Plurality: The Works of Darío Escobar (2013), The Great Swindle: A Project by Santiago Montoya (2014) and Ad Usum / To be used: The Works of Pedro Reyes (2017). His monograph on Mexican artist Pia Camil, There are no Friendly Fires, will be published in 2022.