Art & Politics of Space: One Day Symposium Visual/Scholarly/Activist Responses to Spatial Precarity Thursday, March 14 | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South New York, NY More information & RSVP: https://urbandemos.nyu.edu/event/art-the-politics-of-space-one-day-symposium... The Latinization of U.S. cities has been accompanied by the rapid displacement of Latinx from their historically stronghold communities. Art and culture have been central to these processes, both to expediting gentrification and to strategies of resistance and Latinx place making. This is evident in the role art galleries and culture-based developments have played in the gentrification of urban cities as well as in the rise of Latinx artistic interventions that place culture and place-making at the forefront of their practice. This one day symposium will gather participating artists from PELEA Exhibit along with scholars who have been theorizing and acting through these processes in their work and practice. We will be welcoming the following speakers to speak at this symposium: Panel I: Thinking Through Capital and the Politics of Space *Amanda Boston *is the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow and an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Marron Institute of Urban Management. *Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores* is an Associate Professor in Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Sociology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her research focuses on understanding how urban space mediates community life and race, class, and social inequality. *Johana Londoño* is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is largely interested in the intersection between cultural studies, urban studies, and Latina/o studies. *Miguel Robles-Durán *Associate Professor of Urbanism and member of the Parsons School of Design Graduate Urban Council in New York. Lunch and Break Panel 2: Into Action *Shellyne Rodriguez *from Take Back the Bronx *Rigoberto Lara* from Sunset Park for a Liberated Future *Lena Melendez *from the Northern Manhattan Not for Sale *Sam Stein *is a geography PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center and an Urban Studies instructor at Hunter College. Symposium organized by The Latinx Project Co-Sponsored by: Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD) , the Institute for African American Affairs/ Center for Black Visual Culture IAAA/CBVC, (CLACS) Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Urban Democracy Lab, NYU Urban Initiative, and the King Juan Carlos Center