Graduate Research Colloquium Series

Lucila Rozas (she/they) is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research examines transnational feminist knowledge production in South America, focusing on art, grassroots activism, and embodied practices as forms of resistance. In 2024, she co-organized the Transnational Feminist Networks symposium and co-curated the exhibition Present Futures: Experiments in Feminist Futurity. She serves on the editorial committee of Lateral's special section Global Threads and is a founding member of the editorial collective behind Siren! magazine. Her project ContraArchivx, funded by the Sachs Program for Arts and Innovation, is building a participatory counterarchive of feminist resistance in Peru in collaboration with artists and activists.

Lucila's project title:  

Protest Performance in the Digital Stage: A Palimpsest of Feminist Resistance

Taylor Smith is a PhD candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Smith holds a degree in African & African-American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. Her work explores Black girls' and women’s unique contributions to Black textual and visual literacies, with particular attention to aesthetic, memory, and archival construction. Additionally, she investigates how long-standing Black communal practices of memory-making and information diffusion adapt to the possibilities of new digital media. Her work has been supported by the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, the Social Science Research Council, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Digital Culture and Society (CDCS). 

Taylor's project title:   

The Black Feminist Genealogy of Affect 

Lunch will be served. Questions? Dietary restrictions? Accessibility requests? Please contact Ivana @ivanamic@upenn.edu.