Jessica Rodríguez Colón

Presentation: “Danza Cimarrona (Marronage Dance): healing the soul from colonial trauma” at the Twelfth East-West Philosophers’ Conference in Honolulu, Hawai’i, May 24-31,2024.

Presentation: “Aesthetics of Care through the Queering of Death in Recent Puerto Rican Cinema” for the panel How do feminist artists care? at the CAA conference in Chicago, February 16, 2024. 

Appointed to CAA's Committee on Women in the Arts for a three-year term starting February 2024.

Presented the paper "Looking into the Origins of Performing through Artivism in Public Spaces" as part of the Artivism in Public Spaces panel at SECAC in Richmond, VA.

Recipient of the SECAC Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award. October, 2023.

Presented the paper "Aesthetics of Abortion: Our Uterus, not Your Home" at the 14th annual meeting of the Pacific Association for Continental Tradition. Seattle University.

"Queering Death in Puerto Rican Cinema." Annual Film-Philosophy Conference. Chapman University. Irvine, California, USA.

Presentation: "Bad Bunny's Aesthetics: from sound to visual perception." 16th annual meeting of The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle. The Pontífica Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia.

Presented: "The Aesthetics of Dancing in Silence"  at the 13th annual meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition. University of San Francisco, USA.

Opening Performance: "The Aesthetics of Dancing in Silence" at the 13th annual meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition. University of San Francisco, USA.

Presented: "The Gaze of Anarchy: from the imaginary to its rehearsal" at the Annual meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition. University of Hawaii. Hilo, USA.

Presentation: “The Gaze of Anarchy: from the imaginary to its rehearsal" at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).

Group Exhibition: Art & Anarchy. Volcano Arts Center, Mountain View, Hawaii

Presented: "Unveiling the Forgotten Voices of Female Thinkers: Rethinking Economics." 47th annual meeting of the History of Economics Society. Virtual Conference via Zoom.

Publication: “The Madonna’s Breast and the Surprise of the Real: From Ideal to Embodied” in the publication Breasts Across Motherhood: Lived Experiences and Critical Examinations.

Presentation: "From the Baquiné to the Streets: Performances of Grief" at the First International Queer Death Studies Conference.

Presentation: "The Gaze Economy of (m)others" at the 28th IAFFE Annual Conference.