On March 9th, 2019, co-director of CSSD working group Unpayable Debt: Capital, Violence, and the New Global Economy, Frances Negrón-Muntaner gave a keynote speech entitled "The Valor y Cambio" Project: Art, Narrative and Decolonial Joy” at the 2019 Gender and Cultures of Equality (GRACE) Conference in Holland. In addition to her keynote presentation, professor Negrón-Muntaner delivered two presentations at the conference, which aims to systematically investigate the cultural production of gender equalities within Europe.

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Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a filmmaker, writer, curator, scholar and professor at Columbia University, where she is also the founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activism Archive. For more on her Valor y Cambio social currency project click here.

The GRACE Conference celebrates the achievements of the GRACE Project’s work and provides opportunities to explore the themes of the GRACE research through a range of activities, including a series of public talks by GRACE researchers and other distinguished international scholars.