2026. “We have the same needs as the tree: Mapuche art and poetry and the struggle for heritage and conservation”. Taking Root: Conserving Trees and/as Heritage, Department of Art History. University of Vienna. October 28-30.
2025. “A Mural-Graffiti in Medellín: Fighting for the Territory as Ethical Space,” Urban Creativity XII Conference. Lisbon. July October 22-23.
2025. “Decolonizing Heritage: Multi-vocal, Intergenerational, Intercultural Actions on the Tulcan Pyramid.” International Conference Decolonising Cultural Heritage: State of The Art, Methodologies, and Practices. University for Foreigners of Siena. May 5-7.
2025. “Textiles, Ecology, and Resistance in Encoded Textiles’ ñimin makuñ.” Textiles Ecologies Workshop. Leuphana University Lüneburg. February 5-7.
2024. “Decolonizing Heritage, Culture, and History: Visual and Performative Interventions in Popayán and Bogotá.” Creating a Disturbance: Interventions to Historical Monuments and Statues. University of Johannesburg. November 13-16.
2024. “Art and Migration”. Refuging in Colombia. UniAutónoma with support from UNHCR. October 24.
2024. “Animation as Countering-Image: Ecology and Sustainability in Frailejón Ernesto Pérez Series.” International Conference Counter-Image 2024, Visual Culture and Ecological Thinking. Federal University of Santa Catarina. August 7-9.
2024. “Street Art, DIWOY-O and Direct Action in 2021 Cali’s Social Outbreak.” 6th International ART and the CITY Conference. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG) Göttingen. June 3-5.
2024. “Sensual Excess and Affective Intermediality: Disturbing the Cinematic Discourse in Red Sorghum”. Intermedial Connections: Impurity in the Arts, 7th Conference Narrative, Media and Cognition. Theatre and Film School – Lisbon Polytechnic Institute. May 8-10.
2024. “Music and Protest”. Music Art and Social Movements. UNR and Holland Project. February 28.
2023. “Native Voices, Memories, and Politics of Resistance in Guillermo Bert’s Encoded Textiles.” Nevada Museum of Art. December 8.
2023. “The Woman, the Migrant, the Cyborg in In-Pulso.” Writing Never Written: 2023 Art Writing Symposium. Nevada Museum of Art and University of Nevada-Reno. December 1.
2023. Co-authored with Yanshuo Zhang, “Intermediality and Performative Cultural Communication in Red Sorghum.” Affective Intermediality Conference. Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, CLUJ-NAPOC. October, 20-21
2022. Inaugural Lecture. “Koré’s Mirrors: Between Persephone and Demeter, between dance and theater”. Lecture opening the academic year. Humanities Faculty. Universidad del Norte. Barranquilla, Colombia. August 4.
2022. “Viral Street Art in Bogota: Contesting State Violence and Engaging Citizenry.” Art and The City: Urban Space, Art & Social Change Conference. Aarhus University, June 23 – 25.
2021. “Samuel Fosso’s double mimicry and history’s folding”. International Conference Photography and History. Universidad de Madeira, Funchal, Portugal. 15 – 17 December.
2020. Keynote Speaker. “Seis obras y artistas: Videoarte en los largos años ochenta en Colombia [Six works and six female artists: Video art in the long 1980s in Colombia]”. Seminario Expresiones Artísticas del Videoarte y el Cine Experimental. Medellín, Colombia. October 23. http://www.intermediaciones.org/.
2020. “Video’s movements: Drifts and expansions of video art and video dance”. Central Coloquium of Dance, Universidad de Antioquia. Medellín, Colombia. September 7.
2018. “Pericóresis, córa y video en ‘Anónimo 4’ [Perichoresis, Chora and video in ‘Anónimo 4’].” Resistance, Dissidence, Incidence. Second Colombian Symposium of Performance Philosophy. Second Colombian Symposium of Philosophy of Performance. Bucaramanga, Colombia. August 17.
2018. “In-Pulso o de la poesía y el video por otros medios. Vida, cuerpo y tecnoesfera [In-Pulso o Poetry and video by other means. Life, body and technosphere]”. Art and Medium(s) in Contemporary History of Art. VIII Symposium of Art History. Universidad de Los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia. October 25.
2018. “Flowers, details and Medusa’s Torso”. Pictures of War: The Still Image in Conflict since 1945. Manchester Metropolitan University. Manchester, UK. May 24.
2017. “Ricardo Restrepo’s pioneering video art works”. Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá, MIDBO. Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, Colombia. October 31.
2015. “Silent or muted victims and witnesses? Paradoxes in Doris Salcedo’s artwork.” MCA Talk: Doris Salcedo Panel (Exhibition). Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and DePaul University. Chicago (IL), USA. April 7.
JUAN CARLOS GUERRERO-HERNÁNDEZ 