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SUMMARY:Rooted + Relational: Boricuas in Relation
DESCRIPTION:We’re celebrating our Rooted + Relational Research initiative with the second annual symposium centering the 2025-2026 theme\, Boricuas in Relation. We invited researchers\, students\, and artists to engage with the phenomenon of Boricua archipelagic and diasporic community formation with other racial and ethnic groups. Through special screenings\, presentations\, and panels\, the current cohort of CENTRO fellows will engage with Puerto Rican relations\, histories\, and  practices with multiple communities across the US and beyond. Join us on  expanding Puerto Rican Studies as a field\, a community\, and a praxis of call and response as we learn how to tend to our complex and overlapping relationships across global geographies and specific communities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMay 1\, 2026 | 5 PM – 8 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScreening: Archiving\, Movement\, & Mapping Memory\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of experimental and documentary film screenings to celebrate the opening of the “Boricuas in Relation” symposium. These screenings foreground documentary and experimental film as relational research practices. Through movement\, montage\, and archival intervention\, these works interrogate absence\, urban memory\, and embodied mapping. Together\, they ask: How do Boricuas narrate and navigate place when the archive is fragmented\, incomplete\, or silent? And how might creative practice become a method for tending to what history leaves behind? \n\n\n\nFeatured directors:\n\n\n\nNoelia Quintero-Herencia | We are the city: Mapping No es extraño este sitio para la danza \n\n\n\nCarla Gutiérrez and Kristofer Ríos | The Gaps Are the Story: Documentary Practice and the Incomplete Record \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here :\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMay 2\, 2026 | 10 AM – 7 PM \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDay 2 of the Rooted + Relational: Boricuas in Relation Symposium will be hybrid. RSVP to join virtually here :\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11 AM | Panel 1: Diasporic Formations — Language\, Race\, and Archival Silences\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis panel examines how Boricua identities take shape across racialized landscapes of migration and settlement. Moving from Afro-Nuyorican poetics and linguistic struggle in New York City to overlooked labor histories in Utah\, presenters trace how diaspora exceeds the nation-form and unsettles dominant archives. Together\, these works explore relation as lived practice—through language\, errantry\, education\, and survival—while confronting the silences that structure historical record-keeping. \n\n\n\nPanelists include: \n\n\n\nCristel Jusino Díaz | Moderator \n\n\n\nJanelle Viera | Contextualizing Race in Place: Diasporic Boricua Identities \n\n\n\nMell Rivera Díaz | Errantry Beyond the Nation-Form: Opacity and Afro-Nuyorican Relation \n\n\n\nKatherine Morales | Relating to Spanish: Puerto Rican Oral Histories and the Making of Bilingual Education in New York City \n\n\n\nNichole Garcia | Making Life Beyond the Ledger: Puerto Rican Migration and Archival Silence in Utah’s Bingham Canyon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here :\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:45 PM | Panel 2: Archipelagic Solidarities — Revolutionary\, Caribbean\, and Transpacific Relations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCentering solidarity as method and practice\, this panel maps Puerto Rican political and cultural relations across Greater Mexico\, the U.S. Virgin Islands\, Vieques\, Palestine\, and South Korea. Presenters explore revolutionary networks\, anti-militarism struggles\, and inter-island friendships to illuminate archipelagic thinking beyond colonial borders. By foregrounding memory work and activist praxis\, the panel considers how Boricua relationality generates shared political imaginaries across geographies. \n\n\n\nPanelists Include:\n\n\n\nEssah Díaz | Moderator  \n\n\n\nMichael Staudenmaier | Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in Greater Mexico\, 1978-1988 \n\n\n\nKiana Gonzalez-Cedeño | Islander Friendships: US Virgin Island/Puerto Rico Friendship Day and Lessons on Caribbean Relation \n\n\n\nSara Awartani | Archiving Solidarity: A Memoir of Methods and Praxis \n\n\n\nYeongju Lee | Narrating Vieques Anti-Militarism Activism from a Transpacific Perspective \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here :\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3:30 PM | Panel 3: Cultural Afterlives — Literature\, Comics\, and Global Solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom early women’s fiction to contemporary music and comics\, this panel explores how Boricua cultural production theorizes relation across time and territory. Presenters revisit neglected literary texts\, examine global solidarities articulated in popular music\, and trace graphic storytelling as diasporic worldmaking. Together\, these works show how art not only reflects social conditions but actively constructs relational futures rooted in feminist\, anti-colonial\, and transnational struggle. \n\n\n\nPanelist include: \n\n\n\nJillian Baez | Moderator  \n\n\n\nSuuru (Ashley Torres Carrasquillo) | Afro Saberes: Co-constructing a Community-Based Archive–Archivo de Historias\, Aspiraciones\, Resistencias y Cuidados Colectivos de personas negras que viven y sueñan en Barrios\, Barriadas y Caseríos de Puerto Rico \n\n\n\nAdrianna Ríos | Forgotten Novels\, Enduring Questions: Marriage\, Violence\, and Domesticity in Early Puerto Rican Women’s Fiction \n\n\n\nAlex Sastre-Rivera | Rooted and Relational: Global Solidarity against Settler Colonialism in “Lo Que le Pasó a Hawaiii” by Bad Bunny and “Mundi” by Chuwi  \n\n\n\nAndres Olan-Vazquez |Trazando Líneas: The Making of ¡Wepa! Puerto Ricans in the World of Comics \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here :\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5:00 PM | Rooted Histories and Shared Futures Keynote: A Conversation with Dr. Yomaira Figueroa Vasquez\, Iris Morales\, and Sharayna Christmas \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis keynote conversation brings together an intergenerational reflection on relationality across activism\, scholarship\, and community praxis. Grounded in memory\, and community care\, this dialogue explores how Puerto Rican histories of struggle\, migration\, and cultural production are deeply entangled with Black\, Latinx\, and global liberation movements. Across generations\, the speakers will reflect on their work building solidarities\, navigating conflicts\, and sustaining communities within and beyond institutional spaces. Together\, they will consider how relational praxis can inform both intellectual and collective action. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: People smiling and wearing leis\, Blase Camacho Souza Papers\, CENTRO Archives\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational Initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/rooted-relational-boricuas-in-relation/
LOCATION:CENTRO en El Barrio\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10065
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SUMMARY:Partner Event: Bajo el Lino
DESCRIPTION:I am pleased to present Bajo el Lino: The Guayabera\, Colonial Gender Systems\, and the Decolonial Possibilities of Dress\, my senior thesis project\, realized as a one-night exhibition.\n\nDeveloped in collaboration with Seventh House Gallery and Julia de Burgos Bookstore at Taller Puertorriqueño\, this project examines the guayabera as both a material object and a historical archive. The garment is approached as a site through which colonial structures—particularly those of race\, gender\, and national identity—are inscribed\, embodied\, and reproduced.\n\nThrough processes of deconstruction and reconstruction\, including the alteration of inherited silhouettes and the incorporation of embroidered texts and symbols of resistance\, the work positions the guayabera as both critical inquiry and embodied praxis. In doing so\, it proposes dress as a medium through which colonial logics may be materially unsettled and reconfigured toward more expansive and enduring forms of individual and collective expression.\n\nAdmission is free. Proceeds from the event and participating vendors will support Sylvia Rivera Law Project\, which provides legal services and advocacy for trans\, queer\, and gender-nonconforming communities in New York City.\n\nMay 4\, 2026\, 6:00–10:00 PM\n35 Meadow Street\, Brooklyn\, NY 11206\n\n—–\n\nMe complace presentar Bajo el Lino: La guayabera\, los sistemas coloniales de género y las posibilidades decoloniales del vestir\, mi proyecto de tesis de licenciatura\, realizado como una exposición de una sola noche.\n\nDesarrollado en colaboración con Seventh House Gallery y la Julia de Burgos Bookstore de Taller Puertorriqueño\, este proyecto examina la guayabera tanto como objeto material como archivo histórico. La prenda se aborda como un espacio donde las estructuras coloniales—particularmente aquellas relacionadas con la raza\, el género y la identidad nacional—se inscriben\, se encarnan y se reproducen.\n\nA través de procesos de deconstrucción y reconstrucción\, que incluyen la alteración de siluetas heredadas y la incorporación de textos y símbolos de resistencia bordados\, la obra sitúa la guayabera como un ejercicio de investigación crítica y praxis encarnada. De este modo\, propone el vestir como un medio a través del cual las lógicas coloniales pueden ser materialmente desestabilizadas y reconfiguradas hacia formas más amplias y duraderas de expresión individual y colectiva.\n\nLa entrada es gratuita. Los fondos recaudados durante el evento y por los vendedores participantes apoyarán al Sylvia Rivera Law Project\, que brinda servicios legales y defensa a comunidades trans\, queer y de género no conforme en la ciudad de Nueva York.\n\n4 de mayo de 2026\, 6:00–10:00 PM\n35 Meadow Street\, Brooklyn\, NY 11206
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/bajo-el-lino/
LOCATION:Seven House Gallery\, 35 Meadow St\, Brooklyn\, CA\, 11206\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Events
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SUMMARY:Cafecito con... Steve Howell - Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony
DESCRIPTION:Join author Steve Howell and Professor Sandy Placido as we explore Howell’s latest book\, Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony\, a gripping history of FBI surveillance\, political repression\, and the fight for Puerto Rican independence. \n\n\n\nIn Cold War Puerto Rico\, Steve Howell examines how J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI targeted Puerto Rican communists as part of an offensive against pro-independence parties and activists generally. Howell’s US-born father\, who fell afoul of Hoover for producing radical cartoons while working in San Juan in the 1940s\, remained on the FBI’s watch list long after exiling himself in Britain. His close friends\, the Puerto Rican author César Andreu Iglesias and Jane Speed de Andreu\, were meanwhile arrested and imprisoned three times during the 1950s. Drawing on a wealth of new sources\, including interviews and FBI files\, Howell tells their stories along with those of other activists who battled indictment in 1954 under the Smith Act\, challenged the jurisdiction of the House Un-American Activities Committee in San Juan in 1959\, and revived the Puerto Rican independence movement in the 1960s\, despite the FBI deploying the covert tactics of COINTELPRO against them. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP for this event here!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhotograph belongs to Nico Andreu. Book cover design by Adam B Bohannon.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/cafecito-con-steve-howell-cold-war-puerto-rico-anti-communism-in-washingtons-caribbean-colony/
LOCATION:CENTRO en El Barrio\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10065
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SUMMARY:A Sea of Islands: U.S. Territories in Relation
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nFor 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSave the Date! RSVP Link Coming Soon!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational research initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/a-sea-of-islands-u-s-territories-in-relation/
LOCATION:New York
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