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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 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/
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SUMMARY:Diasporican Cultural 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\n\n\n\n\nOctober 21\, 2026 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStudent Workshop – Artists Interviews & Oral Histories\n\n\n\n12:00-1:30 PM  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis workshop explores artists’ interviews and oral histories as critical methodologies for documenting\, preserving\, and expanding Puerto Rican cultural memory and diasporic research. Through conversation and practical examples\, participants will engage strategies for conducting interviews that foreground collaboration\, lived experience\, and community-centered knowledge production. The session will also examine how oral histories can function as archives\, research tools\, and decolonial forms of cultural preservation. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is for students only. Please contact diasporicanarts@hunter.cuny.edu to reserve a spot. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStudent Roundtable: Demystifying the Pitch\n\n\n\n2:30-4:00 PM  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElevator pitches. Investor pitches. Sales pitches. If you are an emerging writer\, researcher\, or cultural critic interested in publishing essays\, articles\, reviews\, and more\, this round table is for you. Join us for a discussion with editors and contributors from academic and non-academic platforms on practical strategies for developing a strong pitch\, identifying the right publication venue\, understanding editorial processes\, and navigating publication opportunities across journals\, magazines\, and digital media. \n\n\n\nThis roundtable is for students only. Please contact diasporicanarts@hunter.cuny.edu to reserve a spot. \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\nRSVP Here:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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\nJoey 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 have a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and an MFA from Indiana University. They have shown nationally and internationally\, and are currently the Head of the Fiber Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. In this keynote address\, 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. \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 and is produced with support from the Hostos Center for Arts & Culture.
URL:https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/event/diasporican-cultural-research-summit-ii/
LOCATION:CENTRO en El Barrio\, 2180 3rd Ave\, New York\, New York\, 10065
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SUMMARY:The Puerto Rican Radical Tradition - Exploring the CENTRO Spring and Summer 2026 Journals
DESCRIPTION:Nearly fifteen years in the making\, this project began with the goal to give students and young activists a clear entry point into critical\, often untranslated works on Puerto Rican history. Due to an unprecedented volume of submissions\, the highest for any special issue in the journal’s recent history\, this project has been expanded into two comprehensive volumes. \n\n\n\nGuest-edited by José Laguarta Ramírez\, Sandy Plácido\, Iris Morales and Saulo Colón Zavala\, these volumes offer a look at the victories\, defeats and transgenerational power of Puerto Rican radicalism. Inside you will find peer-reviewed research alongside creative writing\, personal testimonials and a deep exploration of women’s essential political and cultural contributions to these movements. \n\n\n\n \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/
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