Detours, Constellations, and Failure: Researching Unlikely Objects in Uncertain Times
An Alumni Spotlight Lecture by Antonio Sánchez-Gómez (Parsons School of Design, the New School)
Antonio Sánchez-Gómez, who earned his MA and PhD at Bard Graduate Center, studies the history of laundry in Colombia. In this Alumni Spotlight Lecture, he reflects on the many detours, adaptations, and unexpected encounters that have shaped his scholarship. Framed by a broader personal and professional history of migration, adaptation, and acculturation, this talk considers how uncertainty, failure, and changing institutional and global conditions can redirect research in productive ways, revealing new questions, unexpected connections, and unlikely objects of study.
Pictured: Antonio Sánchez-Gómez, composition based on graphic advertisement “Las quemaduras duelen y pueden traer una infección,” published in El Tiempo over several months in 1945.
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Institution or Organization name - Bard Graduate Center
