NYU’s Espacio de Culturas fosters community, conversation, and dialogue in relation to the peoples, cultures, languages and ideas that circulate within, between, and beyond Spain, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Americas by hosting visiting scholars, writers, artists, and critical thinkers to create and curate innovative events and activities that are free and open to the public.

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Join us for the upcoming exhibit opening!

RSVP On October 25, we will celebrate the legacy of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, exploring his travels to the United States and his impactful career as a scientist, educator, scientific diplomat, and global citizen. The event will follow a symposium on neuroscience and the lasting connection between Sp...

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We are hiring!

We are seeking a skilled Administrative Aide II to join the Espacio de Culturas @KJCC. This individual will perform a wide range of clerical, secretarial and general office duties including those of a confidential nature. Prioritize office activities and delegate work to student and/or casual employ...

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Three different positions at KJCC

Internships at KJCC: 2 credits (8-10 hours) / 4 credits (12-16 hours) *Administered through the Department of Spanish & Portuguese with approval from Internship Director, Lourdes Dávila: lourdes.davila@nyu.edu Or internship course credit through another department with approval of KJCC Director ...

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Edad y territorio como vehículos de otrerización

Para asistir a este evento, por favor regístrese aquí Edad y Territorio como Vehículos de Otrerización—with Berna Wang and Verónica Ruth Frias, moderated by Julia Chang ¿Qué pasa cuando tu cuerpo y mente no tienen la edad deseada por la sociedad? ¿Pueden el arte y el pensamiento surgir y diseminars...

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Upcoming Events

  • Voices of Resistance: A Dialogue on Quilombola Identity, Colorism and Feminism.
  • Symposium Symposium: Santiago Ramón y Cajal. USA & Spain Bridges For The Neurosciences
  • Exhibit Exhibit opening: Photography and Neuroscience by Santiago Ramón y Cajal
  • Feminist Epistemologies and the Global South

    • Past Events

  • Fridays on the Patio: Juegos en el Patio
  • Periodismo y Literatura con Julia Navarro
  • Fridays on the Patio: Arts and Crafts Afternoon
  • Breakfast Takeover Series
  • Las mujeres rurales y los modelos de feminidad de la dictadura franquista
  • Discussion Racism in Brazil and the USA
  • Fridays on the Patio: How to make comics
  • Lecture Behind the Gaze: Spanish Power and Fang Humiliation in Equatorial Guinea
  • Film Spanish Cinema Now + 2024
  • Discussion Moving Diasporic Bodies: Tragicomedy Musical Conversation
  • Reading/Discussion KJCC Poetry Series - Acción de gracias: 20 años de poesía
  • Fridays on the Patio - Digital Media and the Public Humanities: Films, Comics, and Podcasts
  • Reading/Discussion Fridays on the Patio - Across So Many Seas
  • Discussion Narrativa Contemporánea: una conversación con Mariana Enriquez y Kirmen Uribe
  • Reading/Discussion Fridays on the Patio - Discussion and Open Mic
  • Film Film Screening: "Sediments"
  • Discussion Cruce Prim24 - Creative Writing in Spanish
  • Performance Fridays on the Patio - Dive into the theater!
  • Discussion Edad y territorio como vehículos de otrerización
  • Film LOST…Everywhere: A two-day program
  • Fridays on the Patio: A conversation about race in Italy, Spain, and the U.S.
  • Lecture De Quiltras, Chuchas y otras Perras: Lectura y Coloquio alrededor del Feminismo
  • Film Film Screening: Transformation
  • Discussion Ciencia Más Allá de la Academia
  • Fridays on the Patio - Race, Representation and the Archive
  • Lecture Maternidades y Feminismos en España: Interseccionalidad y decolonialidad
  • Exhibit Ellas son Ciencia: Visibilizando Referentes Científicas a través del Cómic
  • Film Spring 2024 Panawin Screenings
  • Fridays on the Patio - Crochet with Naughty Knitters!
  • Performance Paco de Lucia Legacy Festival: Flamenco Master Class
  • Art and Extractivism: Archives and Prospects
  • Discussion The Filipino People's Struggle for Liberation
  • Discussion Race Narratives through Contemporary Media: Comic, Podcasts & AI
  • Performance "Divisible corpóreo", un poema-travesía-performance, por Rocío Cerón
  • Discussion Book launch: Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics
  • Fridays on the Patio - Day without Art (World AIDS Day)
  • Liberal Studies Translation Slam
  • Conference Symposium: Tales of Time, Images of Memory: Archives, Evidence, Connections
  • Conference Spanish Kiosk Literature: Early Twentieth-Century Short Fiction for a Mass Readership
  • Lecture The Legacy of Catalan Psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles: At the Crossroads of Anti-authoritarian Politics, Institutional Psychotherapy and the Postwar European Cultural Avantgarde
  • Discussion Liderazgo en Femenino
  • Fridays on the Patio - Día de los muertos
  • Lecture Colonizing Gestures and the Colonial Gaze in Images of Equatorial Guinea
  • Fridays on the Patio - Day of the Creole Song
  • Book Presentation - Activating the Archive: Reflections on the Photobook DE LA LLECA AL COHUE
  • Lecture In the Museum of Forgiveness: Culture, Violence and Politics in Mexico
  • A One-Day Symposium - IN THE WAKE OF EMPIRES: Critical reflections on 1898 and its afterlives
  • Film Philippine Cinema at KJCC
  • Fridays on the Patio - Music Performance
  • Discussion Ispilu: Mirrors of Identity in Music