Description:

This event is designed to share the ways in which a research professor brings her training and experience in the humanities and social sciences into the public sphere. 

Valeria Coronel (Professor of Sociology at FLACSO-Ecuador and Secretary of Culture of the Municipality of Quito) will lead an informal, conversation-style event that focuses on her work in the cultural sector—her career path, the cultural spaces and policy she manages, and how that work intersects with her academic work.

Coronel will be a visiting professor at Northwestern in Winter and Spring 2025, hosted by Andean Cultures and Histories and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

This talk is co-hosted by the Kaplan Humanities Institute as part of its Public Humanities Initiative.

About Valeria Coronel

Professor Coronel’s principal areas of research are Latin American state histories and societies as well as indigenous political engagement and actors, with a focus on the Andean area. Most recently, she has traced the transition from the so-called oligarchic state to a national-socialist state in Ecuador from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, arguing that indigenous activists and political movements played a crucial role in making the transition to an eventual social democracy possible. She is also a high profile public intellectual in Latin America, currently overseeing museum programming and cultural events for the city of Quito.