EVENTS
From guest speaking and lecturing at Harvard and Pomona College, to community-based workshops in Santo Domingo, Ruth C. Pión Vizcaíno connects with global audiences through transformative public scholarship. Her recent work includes presentations at academic conferences, interdisciplinary panels, and seminars that foreground Afro-Caribbean histories, legacies, and liberatory praxis.
Ruth collaborates with institutions across the Americas and Europe, fostering inclusive spaces for reflection, dialogue, and justice-based action to uphold Afrodescendant’s collective memory, ancestral knowledge, and cultural landscapes. She offers services that span:
Keynote & Public Speaking
DEI & Antiracist Consulting
Panels & Presentations
Archaeological Project Management
Guest Lectures & Workshop Facilitation
Community Engagement & Participatory Research
Explore past and upcoming events featuring her scholarship, storytelling, and community-rooted approaches to research, education, and heritage preservation.
UPCOMING EVENTS
JULY 15-19
9AM-12PM & 2-4PM
COOPERACIÓN ESPAÑOLA
Ampliar la mirada: Integración de las narrativas afrodescendientes en museos y espacios culturales de República Dominicana
Aimed at cultural managers, curators, mediators, museum educators, cultural organizations and spaces, members of communities that foster tradition and/or living memory, artists, researchers, and students.
COLLABORATORS
With over a decade of experience, I bring dynamic and decolonial perspectives to lectures, workshops, and public events. From academic keynotes to immersive walking tours, my work invites audiences to critically engage with history, confront systemic injustice, and connect with Afro-Caribbean memory and resistance through meaningful, transformative experiences.
Ready to work together?
PAST EVENTS
2025
Centro Cultural España Santo Domingo (CCESD) | MAR 11, 2024
Seminar: Repensar la Ciudad Colonial de Santo Domingo: Ruptura de silencios para la preservación de la memoria histórica afrodescendiente
Colonial Zone, Santo Domingo
SANANDO LAS RAÍCES - CARIBEWAK | JUL 4, 2025
Visita guiada: La Historia por Contar: Ruta de la Afro-Historia en la Ciudad Colonial
Colonial Zone, Santo Domingo
2024
LABORATORIO AFRODIASPÓRICO | NOV 27-30, 2024
Panel: Reparaciones históricas y resistencias
Seminario Online Museologías, patrimonios y memorias afrodiaspóricas
MAGAC, UNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO | NOV 20-23, 2024
Panel: Rutas culturales y turismo decolonial en Puerto Rico y República Dominicana
Presentation: Recorrido “Historia Oculta” de AfrohistoriaRD: afroturismo como herramienta para la preservación de la memora histórica Afro a través de la reinterpretación de sitios patrimoniales
Encuentro Puertorriqueño de Gestión Cultural "Trenzando saberes"
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
UNESCO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | AUG 2024
Presentation: Afroturismo como herramienta para la preservación de la memoria histórica Afro y la reinterpretación de sitios patrimoniales. Recorrido “Historia Oculta” de AfrohistoriaRD: Un estudio de caso
Nuevas Narrativas: Memoria, Resistencia y Reinvindicación – 30 anivesario del programa de la UNESCO “Las Rutas de las personas esclavizadas: Resistencia, Libertad y Patrimonio
FLORIDA PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY NETWORK | MAY 2024
A decolonial approach to Archaeology in Santo Domingo
Youtube, watch it here.
pomona college | mar 22, 2024
Reclaiming Resistance: Antiracist Research and Decolonial Feminism in the Dominican Republic
Latin American Studies Department, Gender and Women's Studies Program, and the Oldenborg Luncheon Colloquium
California, United States
HARVARD UNIVERSITY | FEB 24, 2024
Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Centro Cultural España Santo Domingo (CCESD) | OCT 31, 2024
Cimarronenado the Colonial Spacel: Digital tools for Mapping the Black Experience
Centro Cultural España Santo Domingo (CCESD) | AUG - SEP 2024
Historia(s) por Contar: Rescatando la Experiencia Negra en el Espacio Colonial
2023
Hostos community college | dec 6, 2023
Keynote Lecture: Race and Gender in the Caribbean: Fieldwork in the Dominican Republic
Bronx, New York, United States
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | oct 18, 2023
Panel: The African Heritage in the Hispanic Caribbean
Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs
Florida, United States
DOMINICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE AT CUNY | NOV 28, 2023
A Conversation About Intellectual and Speech Freedom in Public Places in Democratic Societies
New York, New York, United States
2022
WOMEN in EXILE | AUG 2022
Presentation: El Racismo: una continuidad histórica en la República Dominicana
International Conference: Breaking Borders to Build Bridges
Berlin, Germany
CONFERENCE | JUN 26-JUL 3, 2022
Presentation: Nuestra Señora de Monte Alegre: En busca del emplazamiento de la Primera Rebelión Negra Anti-Esclavista de la historia moderna de América
International Association of Caribbean Archaeology (IACA): 29th Congress
Varadero, Cuba
2021
CUNY DOMINICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE | DEC 2021
Presentation: Arqueología Pública en Monte Alegre: Memorias de resistencia, historia oral comunitaria y conexión con los vestigios históricos
La Lucha por La Libertad en La Española: Conmemorando el 500 Aniversario de la Primera Rebelión de Esclavos en las Américas
WIDE+ (Women in Development Europe+) | NOV 2021
Web Seminar: Racism, Classism and Gender discrimination intersectional feminist approach in strategy and analysis
