Conversation: Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and Yarimar Bonilla

Join Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and Puerto Rican anthropologist Yarimar Bonilla as they discuss radical politics, sense-making and racio-colonial capitalism in the Caribbean. As an entry point to the conversation the event will commence with a screening of Santiago Muñoz’s Gosila (2018), shot in the aftermath of hurricane Maria and one of four works you can see onsite at Gallery as part of "Poetic Disorder."

Watch on Zoom or YouTube at the time of event.

Yarimar Bonilla is the director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. She is also a professor in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College and in the PhD Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015), co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (2019), and a founder of the Puerto Rico Syllabus Project.

In addition, Yarimar is a prominent public intellectual and a leading voice on Caribbean and Latino politics. She writes a monthly column in the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día titled “En Vaivén,” (Back and Forth) is a regular contributor to publications such as The Washington Post, The Nation, Jacobin and The New Yorker and a frequent guest on National Public Radio and news programs such as Democracy Now! Her current research — for which she was named a 2018-2020 Carnegie Fellow — examines the politics of recovery in Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria and the forms of political and social trauma that the storm revealed.