Alejandra Bronfman
Professor, Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o Studies
University at Albany, SUNY
Puerto Rico Map from Robert Dudley’s Dell’arcano del mare (The Secret of the Sea), 1647
Cultural historian of the Caribbean with research interests in the production of knowledge, racialization and technology's role in the amplification of marginalized voices. Listening and collaboration guide my work with students, colleagues and researchers.
talks and events
Spring 2023
Roundtable on Radio and Decolonization
Radio Preservation Task Force Conference
Washington DC
April 2023
"Libros/Arte: A Collaboration with the Library, Archive and Art Museum"
Latin American Studies Association
Vancouver, BC
May 2023
"Coral Stories"
XI Simposio de la Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA)
June 2023
Fall 2022
"Littoral Listening, Empire and Remediation"
Society for Ethnomusicology
New Orleans
November 2022
Colloquium Series, Department of Music
University of Pennsylvania
November 2022
"Littoral Media"
Caribbean Sound Studies Series
Princeton University
September 2022
Summer 2022
"Citizen-Artists and Anti-Military Designs in Puerto Rico"
Caribbean Studies Association
May 2022
"Towards a media history of post-military ruination in Vieques and Culebra Puerto Rico"
Global Media: Sound, Image, Materiality
Queens’ College, Cambridge University
June 2022
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