A Sea of Islands: U.S. Territories in Relation

Save the date for this 2-day symposium that seeks to bring together scholars, artists, and activists from the inhabited US territories and their diasporas to learn about shared struggles, relational coalitions, and expand networks of solidarity.

For over a century, the U.S. federal government has defined the relationship of U.S. territories to the political, social, and economic structure of the United States. Political relationships established through federal legislation, judicial decisions, and executive decisions continue to contour the lives of populations and the sovereignty of nations rendered subordinate. As fiscal crises, mass outmigrations, health challenges, climate change, and other challenges continue to affect the peoples of U.S. territories, longstanding questions concerning sovereignty, justice, and freedom have remained at the fore.

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Image Credit: Parade carrying of Puerto Rican flag, Sign in the back reads “Ya Filipinas es libre. Y Puerto Rico?” (“The Philippines are already free. And Puerto Rico?”) Offices of the Government of Puerto Rico in the United States (OGPRUS) Records

This event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational research initiative.