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Race in Spain Colloquium

On the right is a photo of Rubén H. Bermúdez and on hte left a photo of Lucía-Asué Mbomío Rubio
Tuesday, April 05, 2022
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Rubén H. Bermúdez and Lucía-Asué Mbomío Rubio

Program for "Race in Spain" Colloquium
- 3:30-4:30 pm Round Table: "Blackness in the Spanish Arts and Media,"
- 4:30-5:00 pm Q&A with the audience
- 5:00-6:30pm Reception, FHI Patio
- 6:30-8:00 pm Screening of Rubén H. Bermúdez' s A todos nos gusta el plátano and discussion with Rubén

All events will take place in the Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse unless otherwise noted. Please RSVP as space is limited!

*We kindly ask that you wear a mask during the indoor portions of this event.

The Race in Spain Colloquium brings together two of the most influential Black cultural practitioners in Spain today: Rubén H. Bermúdez and Lucía-Asué Mbomío Rubio. The afternoon of events will include a roundtable discussion about Blackness and the politics of representation in the arts and media, in addition to a screening of Bermúdez's award-winning film, A todos nos gusta el plátano [We all like plantain] (2021). This opportunity to have Bermúdez and Mbomío Rubío at Duke University is co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Studies and the From Slavery to Freedom Lab of the Franklin Humanities Institute, was planned in conjunction with Race in Spain Symposium, Northwestern University, April 7-8, and made possible by the generosity of our colleagues in the Taller de Raza, Etnicidad y Ciudadanía en España (TRECE).

Rubén H. Bermúdez is a visual artist and co-founder of Espacio AfroConciencia, a collective that offers talks and workshops on the themes of racism and antiracism in Spain. He is the author of Y tú, ¿Por qué eres negro? [And you, why are you Black?] (2019). The book investigates representations of Blackness in Spain by combining English and Spanish text with his own images and others he has curated from pop culture sources. His first film, A todos nos gusta el plátano [We all like plantain] (2021) also reflects on questions of self-representation in the Afrodiasporic community.

Lucía-Asué Mbomío Rubio is a journalist and one of the few Black reporters currently on Spanish television. She has worked for programs such as "Madrid Directo" (Telemadrid), "El Método Gonzo" (Antena3), "Españoles en el Mundo" (TVE1), and now appears in "Aquí la Tierra" (TVE 1). She has also directed a number of documentaries for the Movistar series "En tierra de los Nadie." Her weekly column titled "Barrionalismos" ran in El Pais for two years (2018-2020) and she continues to write for various digital and print publications.

Contact: Anna Tybinko