The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center promotes research and teaching on Spain and the Spanish-speaking world at New York University, including free public programs for a general audience that highlight the history, politics and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world.

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Race Narratives through Contemporary Media: Comic, Podcasts & AI

KJC Chair Quan Zhou in conversation with Wan Sonya Tang (Boston College) and Mary Kate Donovan (Skidmore College) about her work and how different contemporary media have influenced and impacted the expression of race issues in Contemporary Spain from a Sino-Spanish perspective. Thursday, February ...

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Graduate Seminar 2024

En este seminario estudiaremos, de modo interactivo, el arte como modo de transitar, el arte como vehículo de expresión y sanación y el arte como salvavidas y medio de vida. Tomando como punto de partida una revisión colectiva (feminista, trans-inclusiva y anti-racista) del Art-Brut y el arte “outsi...

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Fridays on the Patio - Day without Art (World AIDS Day)

NYU’s KJCC and Grey Art Gallery are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability. The program features newly commissioned work by Dorothy Cheu...

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Buñuel NYC Takeover

Stephen Sondheim's final musical production, "Here We Are", inspired by two Buñuel films, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel, will have its world premiere in New York at The Shed in September of 2023 (previews start on September 28th with official opening night on Octo...

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Introducing Our New Team

The upcoming fall semester brings a change in the composition of our KJCC staff. We are thrilled to welcome Marina Garde, who will be assuming the role of Assistant Director at the Center. Meanwhile, after nearly two decades of dedicated service, Laura Turégano will transition to a new position as ...

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Upcoming Events

Past Events

  • Film Film Screening: Transformation
  • Discussion Ciencia Más Allá de la Academia
  • Fridays on the Patio - Race, Representation and the Archive
  • Lecture Maternidades y Feminismos en España: Interseccionalidad y decolonialidad
  • Exhibit Ellas son Ciencia: Visibilizando Referentes Científicas a través del Cómic
  • Film Spring 2024 Panawin Screenings
  • Fridays on the Patio - Crochet with Naughty Knitters!
  • Performance Paco de Lucia Legacy Festival: Flamenco Master Class
  • Art and Extractivism: Archives and Prospects
  • Discussion The Filipino People's Struggle for Liberation
  • Discussion Race Narratives through Contemporary Media: Comic, Podcasts & AI
  • Performance "Divisible corpóreo", un poema-travesía-performance, por Rocío Cerón
  • Discussion Book launch: Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics
  • Fridays on the Patio - Day without Art (World AIDS Day)
  • Liberal Studies Translation Slam
  • Conference Symposium: Tales of Time, Images of Memory: Archives, Evidence, Connections
  • Conference Spanish Kiosk Literature: Early Twentieth-Century Short Fiction for a Mass Readership
  • Lecture The Legacy of Catalan Psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles: At the Crossroads of Anti-authoritarian Politics, Institutional Psychotherapy and the Postwar European Cultural Avantgarde
  • Discussion Liderazgo en Femenino
  • Fridays on the Patio - Día de los muertos
  • Lecture Colonizing Gestures and the Colonial Gaze in Images of Equatorial Guinea
  • Fridays on the Patio - Day of the Creole Song
  • Book Presentation - Activating the Archive: Reflections on the Photobook DE LA LLECA AL COHUE
  • Lecture In the Museum of Forgiveness: Culture, Violence and Politics in Mexico
  • A One-Day Symposium - IN THE WAKE OF EMPIRES: Critical reflections on 1898 and its afterlives
  • Film Philippine Cinema at KJCC
  • Fridays on the Patio - Music Performance
  • Discussion Ispilu: Mirrors of Identity in Music
  • Performance TRANSOCEÁNICA Historias de una familia migrante - visita Nueva York
  • Fridays on The Patio - Archivo de la Memoria Trans
  • Archivo de Memoria Trans Argentina: Nuestros códigos/Our codes
  • Discussion Coral & Ash: A Symposium on the Work of Nadia Huggins - Hemispheric Institute
  • Fridays on the Patio - Viva Perú
  • Lecture The altered archive: dreams, ghosts, murmurs
  • Lecture Diplomacy and Literature: Exploring 'El Abraham de Nuevo México’ with Eduardo Garrigues
  • Food Heritage in Spain. Can too many cooks spoil the broth?
  • Fridays on the Patio - Conversation about Gabinete Fang project
  • Exhibit Gabinete Fang: A Project about Memory, History, and Colonial Legacies in 20th and 21st Century Equatorial Guinea and Spain
  • Reading Velada Lorca - FILNYC
  • Fridays on the Patio - Come meet the Authors!
  • Reading/Discussion Conversatorio con Samanta Schweblin - El Entrenamiento Artista
  • Reading/Discussion HERE LIES LOVE in Critical Contexts
  • Discussion NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts: The Films of Luis Buñuel: Robert McKee in conversation with Joe Vinciguerra
  • Film Buñuel NYC Takeover film series
  • Fridays on the Patio - Welcome back!
  • Discussion Cinema in and Beyond Mid-Century Spain: The Sensational Touch of Filmmaker José Val del Omar
  • Reading Lectura de Bienvenida - Creative Writing in Spanish
  • Performance Concierto "La hora de la estrella": Rebe, Lorena Álvarez y Plinio el Joven
  • Conference Kerouac Festival: Los nuevos caminos de la poesía
  • Reading CWS Graduating Students Farewell Reading