Join us for an evening with Jennifer Mota, a Dominican-American multimedia creative and columnist from Philadelphia whose journalism focuses on Caribbean and (Afro) Latinx contemporary popular culture, identity, and fashion. Centering the experiences of the African diaspora, her writing amplifies the work of Black and Latinx transnational communities to create and revolutionize globalized pop music and culture. Her articles have been published in vehicles including Rolling Stone, Remezcla, and PopSugar.

Sebastían Escalón is a journalist, science writer, and podcast producer of El Experimento, a series about the fight against impunity in Guatemala. Escalón received the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 2018. His work is published in Plaza Publica, El Faro, The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), and The French National Centre for Scientific Research.

Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the bestselling author of Woman of Light, Sabrina & Corina, a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, The Story Prize, the winner of an American Book Award, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. She is also the 2021 recipient of the Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Abstract: Art historians have largely abandoned the notion that artist Albert Eckhout’s (1610-1665) series of so-called ethnographic portraits offer transparent portrayals of the people with whom the Dutch had contact in New Holland, the name given to the northeast region of Brazil during Dutch occupancy (1630-1654).