Visual Arts & the Thought of the Anthropocene
Nov 6-8, 2025 | Presented by the Humanities and the Anthropocene Initiative
Image credit: Francisco de Goya, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
In navigating the conundrum unleashed by the Anthropocene, visual artists employ a multiplicity of frameworks to think through the complexities of our current predicament. Echoing Goya’s painting of a dog trying to climb up and out of a wall of mud—a reminder of our inseparability from the earth’s myriad constituents, including today, alas, microplastics and toxic pollutants—the Colloquium proposes a debate on visual arts and environmental change, slow and geo-cinema, geo-photography, image surveillance…
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GUESTS:
Tatjana Gajic, Associate Professor Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of Illinois-Chicago
Patricia Keller, Professor Spanish and Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Monica Lopez, Associate Professor Spanish and Humanities, Reed College
Eliza Mizrahi, Independent Scholar Art and Culture, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Kathleen M. Canning Collegiate Professor of Spanish and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Maria Ferreiro, Ph.D. Candidate Romance Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
GUEST ARTIST:
Regina de Miguel, Filmmaker and Interdisciplinary Artist | Malaga, Spain & Berlin, Germany
FROM TAMU:
Ben Davis, Assistant Professor, GLAC, Africana Studies, Texas A&M University
Raul Carrillo Covarrubias, Ph. D. Candidate, Philosophy, Texas A&M University
Rodrigo De Los Santos Alamilla, GLAC, Texas A&M University
Rafael Fernandez, Ph.D. Candidate, GLAC, Texas A&M University
Alberto Moreiras, Professor, GLAC, Texas A&M University
Meg Perret, Assistant Professor, GLAC, Texas A&M University
Adam Rosenthal, Professor, GLAC, Texas A&M University
Daniel Runnels, Assistant Professor, GLAC, Texas A&M University
Teresa Vilaros, Professor, GLAC, Texas A&M University
Additional support provided by: Department of Global Languages & Cultures and Film Studies (Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts).
Event contact: Teresa Vilaros, vilaros@tamu.edu