Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a filmmaker, scholar, founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activisms collection at Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She will give a public lecture at 6:00 PM on Thursday, January 29, 2026 in Villanova's Bartley Hall room 1011. Her lecture is titled "Cinema as Inquiry", in which she makes the case that films and visual arts serve a vital function of generating new ways for us to understand our world.

Parking at Villanova is in the I-1 Garage on the southeast corner of Ithan and Lancaster Avenues. (All surface lots are private and require a permit, so please avoid them.) Bartley Hall is on the northwest corner of Ithan and Lancaster, so cross Ithan then Lancaster, and Bartley Hall will be on your left. (The entrance is around the building to the left, facing a…