Towards a Decolonial Puerto Rico: a Symposium

Date: Friday March 21st 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location:
6801 Freret St. Room 100A, New Orleans, LA, 6801 Freret St., New Orleans, LA
Description:

A one-day symposium featuring research on Puerto Rican studies in relation to colonialism. The event will feature four research presentations by guest speakers with student moderators and one poetry reading.

 

PROGRAM

1:00 p.m. - Welcome | Zorimar Rivera Montes

 

1:15 p.m. -2:45 p.m. - Panel 1: Imaging Resistance | Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez (Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Texas-Austin, “Caribes 2.0: New Media and Performance in Neoliberal Times”); Judith Sierra-Rivera (Associate Professor of Spanish and Latina/o Studies, Penn State University, “From Pedrito to Pedro Albizu Campos: Blackness, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Puerto Rico and the United States”); moderated by Claudia González-Díaz.

 

2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Coffee Break

 

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Panel 2: Solidarity and Decolonial Praxes | Aurora Santiago Ortíz (Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Chicane/Latine Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Permaneceremos: Resisting Displacement Through a Decolonial Praxis”); Mónica Ocasio Vega (Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Trinity University, "Beyond Survival: Sancocho, Vianda, and Rooted Decolonial Praxes"); moderated by Jenny Herrera-Cano.

 

4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. - Break

 

4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Poetry Reading by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera | Lectura de Algarabía: epopeya especulativa trans

Sponsored By: Newcomb Institute, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies
Open To: Public
Admission: Free
For more information on this event: https://tulane.campuslabs.com/engage/event/10995403