Kimberly Aimeé Alvarado

Panel co-chair, along with IDSVA PhD Candidate, Jocelyn Holmes, of the session: "Decolonial Aesthetics: Toward Artistic and Philosophical Interventions" at SECAC in Richmond, VA.

Presentation: "Tragedy is Not Kitsch: Memories & Representations of Archbishop Romero in El Salvador," at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in San Antonio, TX. April 2023.

Presentation: "The Staff-Scholar: Bordering Identities in Academia" at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in San Antonio, TX. April 2023.

Presentation: "Hair Straightening in the Hispanic Caribbean: Race, Commodification, Neurosis, and Passing Mestizidad" at CAA.

Presenteation:"Aesthetic (Moral) Agency and a Viceroyal Peru" at the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC).

Presentation: "Hair Straightening in the Hispanophone Caribbean and Beyond" at the American Society for Aesthetics

Presentation: "The Invention of Hair Straightening in the Hispanic Carribean Community: Race, Commodification, Neurosis, and Passing Mestizo/a" at the American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division annual meeting

Presentation: "Doris Salcedo’s Plegaria Muda: Remembering the Everyday Aesthetics of the Colombian Civil War" at the American Society for Aesthetics in Philadelphia, PA. April 2023.