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SUMMARY:"Water Proof": Exploring the Spring 2025 CENTRO Journal on Afro-Puerto Ricans
DESCRIPTION:In a moment when histories of marginalized peoples are being deliberately erased—alongside the ongoing erasure of Black Puerto Ricans—this webinar dives into a special issue of the CENTRO Journal offering a multidisciplinary approach to thinking about Black Puerto Rican pasts\, presents\, and futures. \n\n\n\nJoin moderator Sarah Bruno\, and panelists Daniel Morales-Armstrong\, Milagros Denis-Rosario\, and Isar Godreau\, as we dive into the Spring 2025 CENTRO Journal Water Proof: Olas de Memoria\, guest edited by members of the Black Puerto Rican collective Taller Entre Aguas\, \n\n\n\nWater Proof: Olas de Memoria elevates and invites scholars of Afro-Puerto Rican history and memory to remind readers that we are part of a Black intellectual tradition of cimarronaje (marronage) and world-making. Throughout this collection\, we expand on “Black Rican studies” as a subfield that adjoins Puerto Rican studies to broader discourses in Africana (Black studies in the US and in the larger diaspora) and Caribbean studies. \n\n\n\nImage Credit: Cuánto aguanta una columna\, Nitzayra Leonor\, 2023\, Digital Collage and X-Ray \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMissed this event? Catch the recording here!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/water-proof-exploring-the-spring-2025-centro-journal-on-afro-puerto-ricans/
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81758586569
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SUMMARY:CENTRO Fall 2025 Open House
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: The date for this event has been changed from the 19th to the 18th of September. Calling all students\, professors\, community leaders\, activists\, artists\, and more looking to connect with their community and CENTRO! \n\n\n\nStop by CENTRO en el Barrio on September 18th for an Open House to learn more about our upcoming renovation plans and our accessible resources\, including over 300 archival collections\, our library centering the Puerto Rican experience\, data hub reports\, tools & dashboards\, and study guides available to students\, researchers\, and the community for free! \n\n\n\n(Plus\, don’t miss the opportunity to enter into an exclusive swag giveaway!) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: CENTRO Open House 2024
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/centro-fall-2025-open-house/
LOCATION:New York
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SUMMARY:Cafecito con... Marisol Negron and Matti Steinitz: The Revolutionary Notes of Salsa and Latin Soul
DESCRIPTION:Stop by for a discussion highlighting how Afro-Latin Soul and Salsa challenged existing notions of what it meant to be Puerto Rican in America in the 60s and 70s\, provided its listeners with the tools needed to contest existing colonial powers\, and became a source of inspiration in the face of oppression. We’re honored to be joined by authors Marisol Negron (Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records\, Latin Music\, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Imaginary) and Matti Steinitz (Afro Latin Soul Music & The Rise of Black Power Cosmopolitanism) who will take us through the development of these musical genres as a response to the existing cultural and social histories. This conversation will be moderated by Dr. Wilson Valentín-Escobar\, Assistant Professor of Public Humanities and American Studies at The New School. \n\n\n\nImage Credit: Carlos Ortiz Collection. Afro-Cuban musician Machito performing with his band. Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives\, Hunter College\, CUNY. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMissed this event? Catch the recording here!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/cafecito-con-marisol-negron-and-matti-steinitz-the-revolutionary-notes-of-salsa-and-latin-soul/
LOCATION:New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T180000
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SUMMARY:Cafecito con... CENTRO Summer Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Join CENTRO Summer researchers Conor Reed\, Alexandria Ramos\, and Estelle Maisonett for a conversation on their research this summer. The research theme\, Archives: Memory & the Present Past of Puerto Rico\, invites researchers to engage with the word “archives” as concept\, practice\, and theory by bringing together some of the most important framings of historically inflected research. The theme contends with the material and theoretical importance of the archive in contemporary scholarship and research practices while opening a space to engage with contestation\, archival reckoning\, archival architecture\, facilities\, and accessibility\, and quotidian interventions and forms of archival refusal. \n\n\n\nImage Credit: CENTRO Archives \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMissed this event? Catch the recording here!
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/cafecito-con-centro-summer-fellows/
LOCATION:New York
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