CENTRO
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College Presents:
New Directions in Puerto Rican Studies:
A One Day Symposium
Thursday July 8, 2021 via Zoom
9:30am CENTRO Director Yarimar Bonilla, Welcome Message
10:00 am Alessandra Rosa “"Even if they promise, you know it won't happen": Ontological insecurity from overlapping collective and cultural trauma.”
11:00am Celiany Rivera Velazquez “De un pájaro, las dos patas: queer/cuir momentum in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.”
12:00 José Laguarta "Rethinking Puerto Rican Studies in a Moment of Danger."
2:00pm Matthew Arnold Nicdao “Unmasking the Jíbaro Masquerade in Francisco Oller’s El velorio”
3:00pm Sarah Bruno “Emotional Dexterity: Afro-Puerto Rican Resistencia in Bomba”
