Talk
Renzo Aroni: Protest Songs and Political Mobilization in Peru
SVA Library West
133/141 West 21st Street, lower level, New York, NY 10011BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the Honors Program present a talk with Peruvian professor Renzo Aroni on the role of music during the massive Indigenous peasant mobilization from the southern Peruvian Andes to Lima against President Dina Boluarte and her authoritarian government from late 2022 to early 2023.
Born in Lima and raised in the Peruvian highland region of Ayacucho, Dr. Renzo Aroni is a historian of modern Latin America. He received his PhD in history with two designated emphases, human rights and Native American studies, from the University of California, Davis, in 2020. He has an MA in anthropology, with a focus on ethnomusicology, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City. His research experience and current interest includes social movements, revolutions, indigenous peoples and human rights in Latin America, particularly at their intersection with culture, memory and political violence.
Co-sponsored by the Indigenous Student Union and the SVA Library.
BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the Honors Program present a talk with Peruvian professor Renzo Aroni on the role of music during the massive Indigenous peasant mobilization from the southern Peruvian Andes to Lima against President Dina Boluarte and her authoritarian government from late 2022 to early 2023. Born in Lima and raised in the Peruvian highland region of Ayacucho, Dr. Renzo Aroni is a historian of modern Latin America. He received his PhD in history with two designated emphases, human rights and Native American studies, from the University of California, Davis, in 2020. He has an MA in anthropology, with a focus on ethnomusicology, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City. His research experience and current interest includes social movements, revolutions, indigenous peoples and human rights in Latin America, particularly at their intersection with culture, memory and political violence. Co-sponsored by the Indigenous Student Union and the SVA Library.