BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s Program on Latin America and the Carib bean welcomes Tatiana Rojas Ponce\, documentary filmmaker and doctoral can didate at NYU.For Venezuelans\, undertaking an overland journey to the Uni ted States without a visa was\, until recently\, outside the realm of the imaginable. This changed as thousands began to document\, on social media platforms\, their passage through the Darien Gap—a dense and hazardous jun gle spanning the border between South and Central America. In #Darien\, a documentary by Tatiana Rojas Ponce\, three Venezuelan migrants now living in New York share the audiovisual materials they produced during their cro ssing\, offering firsthand narratives and critical reflections on one of t he most dangerous segments of contemporary migratory routes.Following a sc reening of the film\, a conversation with the director will serve as a poi nt of departure to examine the production of migrant subjectivities throug h visual self-representation\, the ambivalent role of social media as both a life-sustaining and potentially lethal force\, and the complex circulat ion of affect\, imagery and meaning within communities in transit.Light re freshments will be provided.This event is co-sponsored by:The Department o f Languages\, Literatures\, and LinguisticsCentro de Estudios HispánicosTa tiana Rojas Ponce is a Venezuelan researcher\, activist and documentary fi lmmaker. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish a nd Portuguese at New York University (NYU)\, where she also completed a ce rtificate in culture and media. Her research explores economies of the ima ge and the intersection of subjectivity with technologies of visualization \, reproduction and detection. She has collaborated on numerous audiovisua l projects\, primarily focused on Indigenous movements and feminist strugg les in Latin America. Her work has been recognized with two Best Editing a wards at the Santiago Álvarez International Documentary Film Festival in H avana. "Hashtag Darien" marks her directorial debut. DTEND:20250919T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260810T221726Z DTSTART:20250919T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Selfies of the Crossing: Mediating Migration through the Darien Jun gle UID:RFCALITEM639219826469645326 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute’s Program on Latin A merica and the Caribbean welcomes Tatiana Rojas Ponce\, documentary filmma ker and doctoral candidate at NYU.

For Venezuelans\, undertaking an overland jou rney to the United States without a visa was\, until recently\, outside th e realm of the imaginable. This changed as thousands began to document\, o n social media platforms\, their passage through the Darien Gap—a dense an d hazardous jungle spanning the border between South and Central America. In #Darien\, a documentary by Tatiana Rojas Ponce\, three Venezuelan migra nts now living in New York share the audiovisual materials they produced d uring their crossing\, offering firsthand narratives and critical reflecti ons on one of the most dangerous segments of contemporary migratory routes .

Following a screening of the film\, a conversation with the director will serve as a point of departure to examine the production of migrant subjectivities through visual self-representation\, the ambivalent role of social media as both a life-sustaining and potentially lethal for ce\, and the complex circulation of affect\, imagery and meaning within co mmunities in transit.

Light refreshments will be provided.

This event is co-sponsored by:

The Department of Languages\ , Literatures\, and Linguistics
Centro de Estudios Hispánicos

Tatiana Rojas Ponce is a Venezuelan researcher\, activist and documentary filmmaker. She is c urrently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University (NYU)\, where she also completed a certificate in cult ure and media. Her research explores economies of the image and the inters ection of subjectivity with technologies of visualization\, reproduction a nd detection. She has collaborated on numerous audiovisual projects\, prim arily focused on Indigenous movements and feminist struggles in Latin Amer ica. Her work has been recognized with two Best Editing awards at the Sant iago Álvarez International Documentary Film Festival in Havana. "Hashtag D arien" marks her directorial debut.

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