Date:
Location:
9:15 Welcome
9:30-11:40 Ethnic Studies and Lorgia García Peña's Scholarship
George Lipsitz (UCSB)
Lourdes Torres (De Paul, and editor of Latino Studies)
Laura Briggs (UMASS Amherst)
Chris Rodelo (Harvard, graduate student)
11:40-12:25 Lunch
12:30-2:40 Dominicanidad's Diasporic Reverberations
Elizabeth Manley (Xavier)
Silvio Torres-Saillant (Syracuse)
Ginetta Candelario (Smith)
2:40-2:55 Break
3:00-5:10 What we are fighting for: Lorgia García Peña's Scholarly Legacy
Ramona Hernández (CUNY)
Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA)
Cornel West (Harvard)
Keish Kim (Harvard, graduate student)
5:10-5:30 Closing remarks
Ju Yon Kim (Harvard)
Genevieve Clutario (Wellesley)
Presented by the Warren Center for Studies in American History, with support from
The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
The Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
The Mahindra Humanities Center
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
The Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Duke University Press is offering open access to The Borders of Dominicanidad until February 6, 2020: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373667
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