Nora Maité Nieves: The Memory and Finding of Home
June 06, 2025
Mixed-media painter Nora Maité Nieves shares how her upbringing, past work as a jewelry maker, and migration to Chicago and New York have influenced her recent projects.
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Centro, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.
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CENTRO Announces New Docuseries Highlighting Puerto Rican Artists in New York City
June 04, 2025
New York City, NY (June 4, 2024) – The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) at Hunter College has announced a new documentary series titled Diasporican Art in Motion Docuseries, … Continued
Culture Under Siege: Policing Culture
May 29, 2025
What happens when the state attempts to regulate culture under the guise of protection? In our latest blog, Prof. Sarah Bruno examines the recent legislative attempt to regulate dance in Puerto Rico through PC2107 legislation that, while framed as safeguarding dancers, would have enforced exclusionary standards rooted in colonial and carceral logic. Click here to read the full article! → Image sourced from the website of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
CENTRO Announces Rooted + Relational Summer 2025 Research Fellows and Artist-in-Residence
May 21, 2025
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) is excited to announce its new fellows for its Rooted + Relational Summer Research and Artist-In-Residence: Alexandria Ramos, Assistant Professor … Continued
Data Scientists and Researchers Answer Questions From the Internet
May 21, 2025
Damayra I Figueroa-Lazu, CENTRO Research Coordinator, and Jorge R. Soldevila Irizarry, CENTRO Research Assistant, sat down with us and answered questions about data science and CENTRO’s Data Hub.
Upcoming Events
Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People
June 07, 2025
Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People honors Puerto Rican identities in the archipelago and its diasporas. Puerto Rico’s colonial status and geographical location situate it as a locus of global encounters and ongoing displacement. On view at CENTRO Gallery (2180 3rd Avenue at 119th Street, New York, NY) through September 25, 2025 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday from 12-5pm.
Afterlives of San Juan Hill
June 07, 2025
In 1958, an emerging Puerto Rican community was displaced from New York City’s Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill neighborhoods to make way for the construction of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Fordham University. Infamously called “the Puerto Rican Slum” and “the worst slum in New York,” by the architect of New York’s Urban Renewal Process, Robert Moses, Lincoln Square and San Juan Hill were home to approximately 2,000 Puerto Ricans.
Diasporican Cultural Summit
June 04, 2025
The Diasporican Cultural Summit is designed to address the pressing need for gathering spaces that bring together diasporic cultural workers, fostering connections with the next generation of scholars, researchers, and … Continued
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