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SUMMARY:CENTRO Library & Archives' Lunch Hour Live at Comic Con: Brown Gay Ink Featuring Ivan Velez Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Join CENTRO (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) librarians and archivists in conversation with groundbreaking Bronx-born cartoonist\, genre pioneer\, and educator Ivan Velez Jr. as they discuss his life and career\, and highlight Tales of the Closet\, the poignant\, funny\, melodramatic\, gritty and sad\, Xeric award-winning series. Created in 1986 as one of the first interventions for LGBTQ+ youth facing the AIDS crisis\, this work remains a cornerstone of Puerto Rican and Queer narrative history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet your tickets here
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/centro-library-archives-lunch-hour-live-at-comic-con-brown-gay-ink-featuring-ivan-velez-jr/
LOCATION:Javits Center\, 429 11th Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10001\, United States
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SUMMARY:Library & Archives Lunch Hour: Ruth Reynolds Oral History
DESCRIPTION:When you think of bold and fierce Puerto Rican leaders\, Pedro Albizu Campos likely comes to mind. However\, Ruth Reynolds was equally essential to the Puerto Rican Independence movement. Finally\, you can hear her discuss firsthand these unique experiences through recently digitized oral histories. Join CENTRO archivist Grace McKenna along with Carlos Rodríguez Fraticelli and Lisa Materson as we dive into Ruth Reynolds’ oral history files recently processed by CENTRO! \n\n\n\nReynolds was a North American civil rights and free India activist who challenged traditional gender roles; a confidant of Puerto Rico’s most controversial independence figure\, Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos; and a living repository of Nationalist Party history following Albizu Campos’ death. Come hear her experience from her words. \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: Ruth M. Reynolds Papers. Ruth M. Reynolds on a Podium. Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives\, Hunter College\, CUNY.\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/library-archives-lunch-hour-ruth-reynolds-oral-history/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86193350748
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T160000
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SUMMARY:Diasporican Cultural Research Summit II
DESCRIPTION:If you’re a scholar\, artist\, editor\, archivist\, cultural worker\, and public intellectuals interested in artistic practices\, this event is for you! After an incredibly successful Diasporican Cultural Summit in June 2025 convening artists\, arts administrators\, curators\, and more across the country\, the Diasporican Cultural Summit is returning with a two-day academic and cultural convening focused on arts research. The program combines scholarly presentations with methodological exchanges and publication-oriented activities following a collaboration as a method model. \n\n\n\nThis event is happening alongside La Feria Internacional del Libro de la Ciudad de Nueva York (FILNYC) organized by the Mexican Studies Institute. Come for the books\, stay for the discourse! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOctober 21\, 2026 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReimagining and Expanding Puerto Rican Studies through Arts & Culture\n\n\n\n4:30-5:30 PM  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Arts & Culture Unit at CENTRO aims to reimagine and expand Puerto Rican Studies through artistic practice\, cultural production\, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The team will share its vision\, methodology\, research priorities\, and current projects\, highlighting how arts and culture can function as critical tools for scholarship\, public engagement\, and community-centered knowledge production.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlenary: The Role of Public Intellectuals in the Democratization of Cultural Knowledge\n\n\n\n6:00-7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis plenary brings together public intellectuals working across museums\, artistic practice\, publishing\, podcasts\, community engagement\, and cultural institutions to reflect on the democratization of cultural knowledge. Through their diverse experiences\, panelists will discuss how intersections of race\, class\, education\, and access continue to shape who produces\, circulates\, and engages cultural discourse. The conversation proposes a model of public and popular knowledge rooted in accessibility\, community accountability\, and decolonial cultural work\, foregrounding ongoing efforts to make culture\, research\, and critical thought more widely available beyond traditional academic spaces. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOctober 22\, 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDigital Spheres: Social Media and other non-academic outlets\n\n\n\n12:00-1:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis panel examines the growing role of social media and other non-traditional academic platforms as critical spaces for cultural discourse\, research dissemination\, and public knowledge production. In a contemporary landscape saturated with content\, panelists will reflect on how digital platforms can move beyond immediacy and visibility to create meaningful\, research-informed engagement that expands public access to culture. The conversation will explore strategies for producing accessible yet rigorous cultural content while navigating questions of audience\, credibility\, representation\, and the democratization of knowledge in digital spaces. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPublishing Decolonial Scholarship: An Introduction to CENTRO Publications  \n\n\n\n2:30-3:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis panel introduces CENTRO’s publication initiatives and their evolving role in shaping and expanding Puerto Rican Studies through decolonial scholarship and accessible cultural discourse. The conversation will highlight the CENTRO Journal\, one of the leading publications in Puerto Rican Studies with nearly four decades of history\, alongside the recently revitalized Centro Press and its new editorial collections responding to emerging conversations and needs within the field. The session will also explore the role of RicanWritings\, CENTRO’s digital magazine platform\, as a more agile and responsive space for contemporary cultural analysis\, public scholarship\, and day-to-day engagement with Puerto Rican and diasporic life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArchives as a Decolonial Force for Writing on Diasporic Research\n\n\n\n4:00-5:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis panel explores how archival practices and research methodologies shape artistic production\, cultural scholarship\, and diasporic knowledge-making across books\, films\, exhibitions\, and other cultural forms. Grounded in the understanding that the histories and experiences of the global majority have often been excluded from mainstream narratives and institutional archives\, the conversation will reflect on the urgent need to trace\, preserve\, and document these histories through community-centered and decolonial approaches. Panelists will discuss archives not only as repositories of memory\, but as active forces for cultural recovery\, creative practice\, and the production of new diasporic research. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeynote by Joey Quiñones – “Love Letters for the Next Generation”: On Art\, Archives\, and the Excavation of the Past\n\n\n\n6:00 – 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this keynote address\, artist Joey Quiñones shares their practice and the work of contemporary Puerto Rican and BIPoC artists who rely heavily on the archives. Art\, and the study of it\, provides a way to fill in the gaps in history and reimagine a more just and equitable present. Quiñones is a fiber artist\, ceramicist\, and mixed media sculptor. Their work focuses on African American and Caribbean history\, specifically queer\, Afro-Puerto Rican identity. They are currently the Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills\, MI. \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\nThis event is made possible thanks to a grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/diasporican-cultural-research-summit-ii/
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SUMMARY:The Puerto Rican Radical Tradition - Exploring the CENTRO Spring and Summer 2026 Journals
DESCRIPTION:From the Nationalist Party to UPR Student Movements to the Young Lords\, and more: this is only the surface of the rich legacy of radical resistance that Puerto Rico possess. CENTRO’s latest journals (Spring & Summer 2026) explore a complex political space defined by movements resisting racial/colonial capitalism through the unique lens of Puerto Rican experiences. Rooted in a legacy of abolitionism\, socialism\, and revolutionary nationalism\, this issue highlights how the tradition continues to evolve through contemporary radical feminist\, anti-racist\, and queer movements. \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: Selection from Las potencias anticoloniales en Puerto Rico (2023)\, by Shellyne Rodriguez\, photo by Stan Narson\, 5ft x 3ft\, color pencil on black paper\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/the-puerto-rican-radical-tradition-exploring-the-centro-spring-and-summer-2026-journals-2/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82124937001
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261114T100000
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SUMMARY:Archiving Home: A Community of Practice
DESCRIPTION:Part showcase. Part workshop\, Part happening. Come join us for Archiving Home: A Community of Practice. This culminating event will highlight the work of Archiving Home participants while inviting broader dialogue and engagement with the community and other practitioners. Join us to learn about non-traditional diasporic archival practices\, connect with others interested in diasporic memory work\, and engage with the emotional\, spiritual\, and personal side of archiving.Archiving Home: A Community of Practice is a collaborative initiative between Centro\, Dominican Studies Institute\, and Haitian Studies Institute that brought together archivists\, cultural workers\, and community memory practitioners engaging with diaspora- and ethnic studies-focused archives. Through shared-meals\, public workshops\, and collective zine-making\, Archiving Home participants explored the technical and ethical challenges of working with bilingual materials\, sustaining community-centered approaches\, and bridging institutional practice with the lived experiences and cultural production of diasporic communities. \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: CHARAS/El Bohío Cultural and Community Center Records. The “Real Great Society”. Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives\, Hunter College\, CUNY. Web. 13 Aug 2026.\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/archiving-home-a-community-of-practice/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261117T120000
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SUMMARY:Library & Archives Lunch Hour: The Roger Cabán Photographic Collection
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, photography has allowed the Puerto Rican community to reflect our humanity\, culture\, struggles\, dreams\, and more on our terms. Co-founded over fifty years ago by photographer & social worker Roger Cabán\, En Foco aimed to support this work and preserve the legacy of diasporic lens-based artists. Today\, Roger Cabán’s personal photographic collection has finally been processed and we are excited to give you a sneak peek into materials documenting his professional and personal life. Take a break from work\, grab your lunch\, and join CENTRO Archivist Oscar Zamora in exploring this essential collection documenting life in New York City and Puerto Rico from 1960’s to the 2010’s. \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: Roger Cabán Papers . “Tio Diego in a Bodega.”:. Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives\, Hunter College\, CUNY.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is made possible thanks to the Mellon funded Rooed + Relational initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/library-archives-lunch-hour-the-roger-caban-photographic-collection/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89148285864
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261204T100000
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SUMMARY:A Decade of PROMESA: Accountability\, Good Governance\, and Puerto Rico’s Future
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our closing symposium of the semester – A Decade of PROMESA: Accountability\, Good Governance\, and Puerto Rico’s Future. This symposium seeks to make a discerning and principled retrospective and prospective analysis of the conditions that lead to the insolvency of Puerto Rico’s government\, the institutional solutions provided for that insolvency (i.e.\, PROMESA and FOMBPR)\, the repercussions of those solutions\, and an assessment of the conditions that may ultimately lead to a future without the need for PROMESA or FOMBPR. \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: Photograph by Rosa Cruz\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/a-decade-of-promesa-accountability-good-governance-and-puerto-ricos-future/
LOCATION:MI
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261208T120000
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SUMMARY:Library & Archives Lunch Hour: New Books in Puerto Rican Studies
DESCRIPTION:If you’re looking to expand your reading list\, gift a book to your favorite bookworm\, or just want to know what’s new in the literary world for Boricuas\, don’t miss this lunch hour with our incredible Head Librarian at CENTRO\, Aníbal Arocho! Informative and ground-breaking books about the Puerto Rican community continue to be published by well-known and emerging authors each month. Our incredible Librarian has his finger on the pulse and is ready to presents our yearly roundup of new books in Puerto Rican Studies. \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\nThis event is made possible thanks to the support of the Mellon funded Rooted + Relational initiative.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/library-archives-lunch-hour-new-books-in-puerto-rican-studies/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83315778239
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270609T090000
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SUMMARY:Cumbre x CENTRO - Black Cuerpas: Race\, Body Politics\, & Culture
DESCRIPTION:Take a tour of New York City like you’ve never done before during the Cumbre X CENTRO conference on the week leading up to the National Puerto Rican Day Parade. The theme of this conference\, Black Cuerpas: Race\, Body Politics\, & Culture\, is a collaborative retrospective of CENTRO’s third year of the Rooted + Relational Research Initiative! \n\n\n\nThis conference is produced in conjunction with celebrated cultural institutions around NYC like the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute\, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center\, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, The Haitian Studies Institute\, and the Asian American/Asian Research Institute and will feature programming across these institutions and at CENTRO. \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: Josue Oquendo Natal\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/cumbre-x-centro-black-cuerpas-race-body-politics-culture/
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