BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:The Legacy of Dominicanidad: A Symposium on the Work of Logia García Peña PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1479365_0 SUMMARY:The Legacy of Dominicanidad: A Symposium on the Work of Logia García Peña DESCRIPTION:

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.

LOCATION:Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20200130T141500Z DTEND:20200130T223000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR