el taller 2025 presents MARIQUITA: Tradición y Transgresión

Dear friends and colleagues,

Please join us for the first event of our Fall 2025 series: a post-screening conversation between Andalusian authors Jesús Pascual, director of the Spanish documentary ¡Dolores, Guapa!, and Miguel Caballero, Professor of Iberian Studies at Northwestern University. We will explore questions surrounding Andalusian queerness and popular religiosity, engaging with the themes and cultural resonances of the film. The conversation will be moderated by Sandra Baena-Velázquez.

This hybrid event invites both in-person and virtual participation and is free and open to the public. Please register at this link to attend either in person or online.

We look forward to seeing you there for what promises to be a rich and thought-provoking discussion.

Jesús Pascual (Alcalá de Guadaíra, 1997) is a writer and filmmaker trained between Seville and Madrid. He made his debut with the short film Mi arma (2019), which received international recognition and was showcased at the Short Films Corner of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. In 2022, he premiered his first feature documentary, ¡Dolores, guapa!, winner of the Seville European Film Festival and nominated for the Feroz Awards. The following year, he was awarded the Sonia Rescalvo Queer and Crip Theories Prize for his essay Querer como las locas (Editorial Cántico).

Miguel Caballero (Sevilla, 1985) holds a PhD from Princeton University and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University. His research and curatorial work center on two main fields: anti-fascist art and avant-garde culture in the early 20th century, and critical theory applied to HIV/AIDS. In the first area, he recently published his debut monograph, The Monument of Tomorrow: Creative Conservation and the Spanish War (Penn State University Press), which explores heritage conservation as an anti-fascist artistic and political strategy. In relation to his research on AIDS, he is currently writing Adherence and Addiction: A Seropositive Epistemology, a study of the chronicity of HIV and the intersections of art, science, and the pharmaceutical industry.

Sandra Baena Velázquez (Sevilla, 1991) is a PhD student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. Their research explores the language of joy and pleasure in Spanish and Argentinian post-dictatorial archives. They are also interested in examining how visual and performing arts open space for political counter-narratives.

Please keep an eye out for future updates — including the screening of ¡Dolores, Guapa! on Thursday, October 2nd at Espacio de Culturas with Jesús Pascual and Miguel Caballero.

For more information, we invite you to visit wp.nyu.edu/eltaller . If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at [email protected] .

Sandra Baena-Velázquez

On behalf of the coordinating committee

Abigail Balbale
Jordana Mendelson
Sarah Pearce
Víctor Sierra Matute
Ameya Tripathi

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