Gather around with us for a Centro Town Hall event on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 at 3 PM EST. Centro’s Mellon grant coordinator, Cristel Jusino Díaz, and the Co-conveners of Centro’s new Decolonization Study Group for a brief discussion of Centro’s new program “Bridging the Divides” funded by a $1.2 million grant from the Andrew … Continued
Join us on Tuesday, February 8th at 12 PM EST for the first Library Lunch Hour of the Year! We will be joined with documentary filmmaker and President of Balestra Media, Christina DiPasquale, and Centro Library Manager, Aníbal Arocho, as they discuss the groundbreaking PBS series executive produced and hosted by Humberto Cintrón, Realidades. Realidades … Continued
Join us for an Afternoon Tertulia: The Lettered Barrida on Thursday, February 17th, 2022 at 4 PM EST. We will be joined by author and professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo and Centro researcher José Laguarta Ramírez who will be discussing Meléndez-Badillo’s newest book, The Lettered Barrida. In his book, Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster … Continued
Join us for another Library Lunch Hour, Unboxing the Archives: Contemporary Lit Curated by the Library and Archives on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 at 12 PM EST! We will be joined by Centro Library Manager, Aníbal Arocho, as he unboxes and displays the contemporary literature pieces that we have at our Library and Archives. Aníbal … Continued