Ángeles Donoso Macaya is an immigrant educator, researcher and activist from Santiago, Chile, based in New York City. She is Professor of Spanish at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY and Professor of Latin American Cultures and Visual Studies in the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at The CUNY Graduate Center. Ángeles’ research centers on Latin American photography theory and history, counter-archival production, human rights activism, documentary film, and feminisms in the Southern Cone, and public humanities scholarship. She is the author of La insubordinación de la fotografía (Metales Pesados 2021) / The Insubordination of Photography: Documentary Practices under Chile’s Dictatorship (UP Florida 2020), which received the Best Book Award in Latin American Visual Culture at LASA 2021, Best Book Award in Recent History and Memory at LASA 2022 and a Socolow-Johnson Prize Honorable Mention at CLAH 2022. Her most recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies/Travesía, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, and in the collective volumes Cold War Camera (Duke UP 2023) and Photography and its Publics (Bloomsbury 2020), among others. Since 2020, Ángeles has been Faculty Lead of Archives in Common: Migrant Practices/ Knowledges/Memory, part of the Mellon Seminar on Public Engagement and Collaborative Research at The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center/CUNY.

Programming

Call for Papers / Convocatoria
WSQ Call for Papers and Creative Work: NO ESTAMOS A LA INTEMPERIE: An open call

Book Launch
Thu, Nov 30, 2023,
07:00 PM –
08:30 PM
Celebrating The Sisters of the Milpa: Longing for the Corn / Celebrando Las hermanas de la milpa: la añoranza del maíz by chef Natalia Mendez of La Morada Mutual Aid Kitchen

Conversation
Fri, Nov 10, 2023,
06:00 PM –
07:30 PM
Undisciplined Scholarship: A Conversation with Jorge Díaz and Ángeles Donoso Macaya on Art, Activism, Science, and Writing as a Situated Practice

Discussion
Wed, May 3, 2023,
06:00 PM –
07:30 PM
“Why Can’t We Breathe?" Fighting Environmental Racism in the Bronx

Book Launch & Conversation
Mon, Mar 6, 2023,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Set Fear on Fire! Book Launch + Conversation with Colectivo LASTESIS (Chile)

Book Launch Celebration
Thu, Feb 9, 2023,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
All about the squash: sisters of the milpa book launch!

Workshop
Sat, Nov 5, 2022,
12:00 PM –
02:00 PM
Brewing Memories: A Medicinal Herbs Workshop with La Morada Chef Carolina Saavedra

Conversation
Wed, Oct 19, 2022,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
no + porque somos + Expanding Feminist Ways of Thinking-Feeling-Doing

Lecture
Wed, Apr 6, 2022,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM
Documentary Reverberations: "Exploring the Photographic Field in Chile under Dictatorship" a lecture by Ángeles Donoso Macaya

Conference
Thu, Nov 18, 2021 –
Fri, Nov 19, 2021,
10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
Women, Photography, and Feminisms

Conversation
Tue, Nov 2, 2021,
04:00 PM –
05:30 PM
Situated Cameras: A Conversation with Photographers Zahara Gómez and Cinthya Santos-Briones

Film Screening and Conversation
Wed, Sep 15, 2021,
07:00 PM –
09:30 PM
Fighting Back Racism and Food Injustice Thru Green Spaces

A conversation and video
Food Justice, Activism, and the Public University: A Conversation


Conversation
Wed, May 5, 2021,
02:00 PM –
04:00 PM
Socializing Toxic Clouds: A Conversation with Samaneh Moafi, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Robert Trafford & Anna Feigenbaum

Conversation
Wed, Oct 14, 2020,
06:30 PM –
08:00 PM