Professor Mariana Ortega, The Art of Memory

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This presentation explores the relationship between home, memory, and the photograph.  It introduces the notion of photographic fabulation as an aesthetic praxis through which a self creates a story with images in order to contend with personal and collective histories, especially those marked by displacement as well as colonial erasures.
 
Mariana Ortega is professor of philosophy and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of "Carnalities, The Art of Living in Latinidad" (Duke, 2025) and "In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self" (SUNY, 2016). She is co-editor of "Theories of the Flesh, Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation and Resistance" (Oxford, 2020) and "Constructing the Nation:  A Race and Nationalism Reader" (SUNY, 2009). Her latest co-edited anthology, "Life in Art: Phenomenology and World-Making is forthcoming" (Indiana 2025).
She is the founder and director of the Latina/x Feminisms Roundtable, a forum for Latina/x and Latin American feminisms.