Bostock Library (2nd floor), RM 226 Gillespie East Asia Reading Room

Join us as Duke’s first student cartonera collective, Muyu Pacha, showcases its original cartonera books and invites you to learn more about this publishing movement from Latin America. 

Cartoneras (Spanish for books made of recycled cardboard) trace their origins to early 21st-century South America, but in just two decades, more than one hundred collectives have emerged across Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe.

In Spring 2026, a collaboration between Duke University Libraries’ Latin American Collections and the Romance Studies course Spanish 422, Indigenous Futurisms: Sentient Territories and Decolonial Futures, introduced cartonera books and workshops to Duke students. 

Light refreshments will be served followed by remarks by course professor, Dr. Angelica Serna Jeri. 

Funding provided by Duke’s Service-Learning Award & Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies.