Event Date
Puerto Rico & the Diaspora Symposium
9:00
Welcome Remarks
9:15-10:20
Kathleen Cruz, Classics, "Me lavaron el cerebro/con las estatuas de Grecia: Puerto Rican Engagement with the Greco-Roman Past in the 19th and 20th Centuries" Javier Arbona, American Studies, "What Disappears"
Lisa G. Materson, History, "Women in the Puerto Rican Independence Party in the 1940s and1950s"
Aino Kangas, History, ""2020 Plan Means the Destruction of Puerto Rico': Environmental Justice and Anti-Colonial Solidarity, 1979-1986"
10:30-11:45
José Juan Pérez Meléndez, History, "A History of Decolonization Hearings: The Puerto Rican Commonwealth, US Congress, and theUnited Nations"
Noon-1:30 Lunch provided
ΚΕΥΝΟΤΕ
Bárbara Abadía-Rexach
AFROfeminista: Raza y mujer en Puerto Rico (in Spanish)
Haley Williams, Spanish & Portuguese, "The Potentiality of Monstrous Girlhood: The Contemporary Feminist Gothic in the Work of Ana María Fuster Lavin"
1:45-3:00
Grayson Ward, Spanish & Portuguese, "Love as a Decolonial Project: Water, Land and Community in the Works of Xavier Valcárcel"
Diana Aramburu, Spanish & Portuguese, "Teaching Hurricane María: From Chaos and Crisis to Healing and Resistance in Contemporary Puerto Rican Fiction"
3:00-3:30
Future Collaborations Discussion
Sponsored By: Davis Humanities Institute, UC Davis
