The Legacy of Dominicanidad: A Symposium on the Work of Logia García Peña

 

This symposium is free and open to the public, and it will be live-streamed at https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu

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)  

Duke University Press is offering open access to García Peña's The Borders of Dominicanidad until February 6, 2020: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373667

For 30% off print copies, use coupon code (E19GRCIA) during checkout at https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-borders-of-dominicanidad

This event is 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; and The Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Additional cosponsors to be announced.