Latina/Latino Studies Postdoctoral Colloquium Series: Dr. Angie Bonilla
Nov 12, 2025 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Campus Instructional Facility (CIF) 4039
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- Department of Latina/Latino Studies
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- Department of Latina/Latino Studies
- lls-studies@illinois.edu
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The Department of Latina/Latino Studies' Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate Angie Bonilla will give a talk titled "Beyond Cages, Beyond Crisis: Migrant Figures and the Racial Politics of Visibility."
This talk examines how humanitarian and artistic media transform migrant life into spectacles of empathy and control. Through films, photographs, and installations, Angie Bonilla traces how Latinx visual practices expose the racial politics of visibility and imagine endurance and solidarity beyond cages, beyond crisis. Bridging hemispheric, aesthetic, and political frameworks, her talk reimagines how migration is seen, felt, and governed across the Americas.