This seminar invites papers that explore the ways in which artistic practices across Latin America have engaged with revolutionary thought, historical memory, and political organizations that supported radical changes from the 20th century to the present. From cinema and performance to muralism, installation, and community-based art, Latin American artists have long confronted economic and political elites while reinterpreting the colonial past, reimagining liberation, and struggling against state violence.

We are particularly interested in contributions that examine how visual, performative, and interdisciplinary artistic expressions have intervened in moments of political rupture and social transformation—from the revolutionary movements of the 20th century to contemporary uprisings and grassroots struggles. How have artists documented, represented, and reinterpreted revolutions? How does aesthetics become a vehicle for historical critique, utopian imagination, or decolonial praxis?

This panel encourages reflection on:

• Revolutionary aesthetics and the legacy of emancipatory movements
• Art as historical testimony and a form of political engagement
• The role of race, gender, and class in visual and performative articulations of revolution
• Indigenous, Afro-diasporic, and feminist reconfigurations of national narratives in a context of change
• Experimental and community-based practices that challenge institutional or colonial forms of cultural production

By engaging with a wide range of artistic media, this seminar aims to interrogate how Latin American artists—past and present—mobilize history and revolution as aesthetic and political forces. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches from scholars working in history, film and media studies, cultural studies, performance, political theory, and related fields.

Proposals are welcome in both English and Spanish.