HUNTER COLLEGE, CUNY
CUNY Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI)
Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies (AFPRL)
Project Title: "Black and Latinx Practices of Freedom: Archives, Methods, and Pedagogies"
Principal Investigator: Lázaro Lima
Co-Investigators: James Cantres and Arlene Torres
BRESI Lectures and Workshops Structure
The Hunter College/AFPRL BRESI project "Black and Latinx Practices of Freedom: Archives, Methods, and Pedagogies" is comprised of a series of lectures and workshops that center the importance of archives, methods, and pedagogies to the foundation and continuities of Black, race, and ethnic studies knowledge projects.
Each of the project's three pillars showcase the significant intellectual and scholarly work of invited speakers who engage with Hunter/CUNY faculty, students, and staff at a midday workshop, and at an afternoon plenary lecture, that focuses on one of the project's three pillars from the vantage point of the speaker's inter- and trans-disciplinary formation.
All events are open to the Hunter College community (workshops require registration due to interactive the nature of the programs). Contact the PI for the project, Prof. Lázaro Lima, for additional information ([email protected]).
[Click on the links below for additional info.]
SPRING 2023 | PEDAGOGIES
Monday, April 3, 2023
Prof. Rachel Afi Quinn (University of Houston). Prof. Rachel Afi Quinn is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. Her transnational feminist cultural studies scholarship focuses on mixed race, gender and sexuality, social media and visual culture in the African Diaspora. She is the author of Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo (University of Illinois Press 2021).
Lecture: “Being la Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo” Hunter College, CUNY
Location: Hemmerdinger Screening Room 4:00-5:15 pm
Prof. Lorgia Gárcia Peña (Tufts University). Garcia Peña is professor of Latinx Studies at Tufts University, the co-founder of Freedom University Georgia, and the author of three books: Translating Blackness (Duke 2022), Community as Rebellion (Haymarket Books 2022) and The Borders of Dominicanidad (Duke 2016). She is the co-editor of the Texas University Press series, Latinx: the Future is now and the co-director of Archives of Justice. Garcia Peña teaches about the intersections of blackness, colonialism and migration, centering Black Latinx lives. Her presentation with Professors Lázaro Lima (Hunter College, CUNY), and Vanessa Pérez Rosario will center on "Black Latinidad as Liberatory Practice."
Thursday, March 29, 2023
Lecture: Prof. Lorgia García Peña (Tufts University), "Black Latinidad as Liberatory Practice”
Location: Hemmerdinger Screening Room 4:00-5:15 pm
SPRING 2023 | ARCHIVES
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Prof. Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University). Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts at Georgetown University. Colbert’s publications include Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies (2021), and Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics (2017). Her recent book, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, was described by critic David Itzkoff as "[a] devoted and deeply felt account of the development of an artist’s mind" (New York Times Book Review) and was one of O Magazine's best books for 2021. In her acclaimed biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Colbert narrates a life at the intersection of art and politics, arguing that for Hansberry the theater operated as a rehearsal room for her political and intellectual work. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a residency at the Schomburg Center, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Stanford University, Mellon Foundation, and the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University.
Lecture: Prof. Soyica Colbert (Georgetown University), "Revisiting the Village Scene: Lorraine Hansberry the Organizer"
Time: 4:00-5:15 pm
Location: Hemmerdinger Room | Hunter College East Building 706
Workshop: Profs. Lázaro Lima (Hunter College, CUNY) and Soyica Colbert (Georgetown University) in conversation, "Art, Archiving Freedom, Resistance."
Location: CENTRO Conference Room / Hunter College East Building, Room 1442
Time: 1:00-2:15
Monday, February 6, 2023
Prof. Benjamin Talton (Howard University). Benjamin Talton is a historian, teacher and award-winning author. His research and writing explore histories of the African Diaspora, ethnicity and politics in Ghana, and the intersection of African and African American politics and popular culture in the 20th c. For the workshop, Prof. Talton will be in conversation with Prof. Cantres.
Lecture: Benjamin Talton, "On Nonviolence and Its Limits for the African Revolution"
Time: 4:00-5:15 pm
Location: Faculty Dinning Room / Hunter College West Building, 8th Floor
Workshop: Benjamin Talton, "Global Black Experience Archiving"
Time: 1:00-2:15 pm
Location: CENTRO Conference Room / Hunter East Room 1442
FALL 2022 | Methods
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Prof. Sandy Alexandre (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Sandy Alexandre is associate professor of American literature at MIT. Dr. Alexandre writes on black American material culture—particularly literature and photographs—examining how histories of black displacement, invisibility and vulnerability haunt and energize the ways black lives matter now. She is the author of Properties of Violence: Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching (2012), and the forthcoming Thinghood, Ethics, and Black Material Culture: Up From Chattels (2022). This year Prof. Alexandre served as the dramaturg for Awoye Timpo’s stage production of Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye (1970). The digital program for the the production is viewable here.
Lecture: Prof. Sandy Alexandre (MIT), “Striking Images: Black Exhaustion and Passive Resistance in Photography”
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm
Location: Faculty Dinning Room / Hunter College West Building, 8th Floor
Workshop: Profs. Lázaro Lima (Hunter College, CUNY) and Sandy Alexandre (MIT), "Interpreting Black Exhaustion."
Location: Faculty Dinning Room / Hunter College West Building, 8th Floor
Thursday, October 10, 2022
Prof. Israel Reyes. Israel Reyes is a Professor and current Chair of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College, the former Chair of the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program, and holds an Adjunct Appointment with the Comparative Literature Program. He also serves as the Director of Fellowships in the Office of the Provost and organizes mentoring and professional development for a cohort of pre- and postdoctoral fellows. Professor Reyes teaches and conducts research on Latin American, Puerto Rican, and US Latinx literature and culture. His publications include his two books, Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican Literature (2005) and Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater (2022). He has published scholarly articles on Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lalo Alcaraz, Nemesio Canales, Cristina García, Ana Lydia Vega, and Manuel Ramos Otero. He is currently working on a book project on Puerto Rican visual and performance cultures on Chicago's Paseo Boricua.
Lecture: Prof. Israel Reyes, "Uncovering Latinx Perspectives in the U.S. Through Public Art”
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Location: Hunter College, Cooperman Library, Room 512
Workshop: Profs. Lázaro Lima (Hunter College, CUNY) and Israel Reyes (Dartmouth College), "Methods for Analyzing and Interpreting Latinx and Black Art: A Workshop on Seeing and Doing Minoratarian Arts Practice"
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: CENTRO Conference Room / Hunter East Room 1442
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Latinx Heritage Month Convocation Event
Book Discussion: Author Milagros Denis-Rosario (Hunter College, CUNY) in conversation with Lázaro Lima (Hunter College,CUNY) on the occasion of the publication of Drops of Inclusivity (SUNY 2022).
Prof. Denis-Rosario is an associate professor of history in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. She earned her doctorate in Latin America and Caribbean history from Howard University and her master’s in Africana studies from Cornell University. She has been published in the Journal of Pan-African Studies, The Delaware Review of Latin American Studies, Centro Journal, journal Memorias and Latino Studies. Her book, Drops of Inclusivity: Racial Formation and Meanings in Puerto Rican Society, 1898-1960, was published this year.
Time: 4:00 - 5:15 pm
Location: Zoom Event
CUNY Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI)
Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies (AFPRL)
Project Title: "Black and Latinx Practices of Freedom: Archives, Methods, and Pedagogies"
Principal Investigator: Lázaro Lima
Co-Investigators: James Cantres and Arlene Torres
BRESI Lectures and Workshops Structure
The Hunter College/AFPRL BRESI project "Black and Latinx Practices of Freedom: Archives, Methods, and Pedagogies" is comprised of a series of lectures and workshops that center the importance of archives, methods, and pedagogies to the foundation and continuities of Black, race, and ethnic studies knowledge projects.
Each of the project's three pillars showcase the significant intellectual and scholarly work of invited speakers who engage with Hunter/CUNY faculty, students, and staff at a midday workshop, and at an afternoon plenary lecture, that focuses on one of the project's three pillars from the vantage point of the speaker's inter- and trans-disciplinary formation.
All events are open to the Hunter College community (workshops require registration due to interactive the nature of the programs). Contact the PI for the project, Prof. Lázaro Lima, for additional information ([email protected]).
[Click on the links below for additional info.]
SPRING 2023 | PEDAGOGIES
Monday, April 3, 2023
Prof. Rachel Afi Quinn (University of Houston). Prof. Rachel Afi Quinn is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. Her transnational feminist cultural studies scholarship focuses on mixed race, gender and sexuality, social media and visual culture in the African Diaspora. She is the author of Being La Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo (University of Illinois Press 2021).
Lecture: “Being la Dominicana: Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo” Hunter College, CUNY
Location: Hemmerdinger Screening Room 4:00-5:15 pm
Prof. Lorgia Gárcia Peña (Tufts University). Garcia Peña is professor of Latinx Studies at Tufts University, the co-founder of Freedom University Georgia, and the author of three books: Translating Blackness (Duke 2022), Community as Rebellion (Haymarket Books 2022) and The Borders of Dominicanidad (Duke 2016). She is the co-editor of the Texas University Press series, Latinx: the Future is now and the co-director of Archives of Justice. Garcia Peña teaches about the intersections of blackness, colonialism and migration, centering Black Latinx lives. Her presentation with Professors Lázaro Lima (Hunter College, CUNY), and Vanessa Pérez Rosario will center on "Black Latinidad as Liberatory Practice."
Thursday, March 29, 2023
Lecture: Prof. Lorgia García Peña (Tufts University), "Black Latinidad as Liberatory Practice”
Location: Hemmerdinger Screening Room 4:00-5:15 pm
SPRING 2023 | ARCHIVES
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Prof. Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University). Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts at Georgetown University. Colbert’s publications include Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies (2021), and Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics (2017). Her recent book, Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, was described by critic David Itzkoff as "[a] devoted and deeply felt account of the development of an artist’s mind" (New York Times Book Review) and was one of O Magazine's best books for 2021. In her acclaimed biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Colbert narrates a life at the intersection of art and politics, arguing that for Hansberry the theater operated as a rehearsal room for her political and intellectual work. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a residency at the Schomburg Center, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Stanford University, Mellon Foundation, and the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University.
Lecture: Prof. Soyica Colbert (Georgetown University), "Revisiting the Village Scene: Lorraine Hansberry the Organizer"
Time: 4:00-5:15 pm
Location: Hemmerdinger Room | Hunter College East Building 706
Workshop: Profs. Lázaro Lima (Hunter College, CUNY) and Soyica Colbert (Georgetown University) in conversation, "Art, Archiving Freedom, Resistance."
Location: CENTRO Conference Room / Hunter College East Building, Room 1442
Time: 1:00-2:15
Monday, February 6, 2023
Prof. Benjamin Talton (Howard University). Benjamin Talton is a historian, teacher and award-winning author. His research and writing explore histories of the African Diaspora, ethnicity and politics in Ghana, and the intersection of African and African American politics and popular culture in the 20th c. For the workshop, Prof. Talton will be in conversation with Prof. Cantres.
Lecture: Benjamin Talton, "On Nonviolence and Its Limits for the African Revolution"
Time: 4:00-5:15 pm
Location: Faculty Dinning Room / Hunter College West Building, 8th Floor
Workshop: Benjamin Talton, "Global Black Experience Archiving"
Time: 1:00-2:15 pm
Location: CENTRO Conference Room / Hunter East Room 1442
FALL 2022 | Methods
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Prof. Sandy Alexandre (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Sandy Alexandre is associate professor of American literature at MIT. Dr. Alexandre writes on black American material culture—particularly literature and photographs—examining how histories of black displacement, invisibility and vulnerability haunt and energize the ways black lives matter now. She is the author of Properties of Violence: Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching (2012), and the forthcoming Thinghood, Ethics, and Black Material Culture: Up From Chattels (2022). This year Prof. Alexandre served as the dramaturg for Awoye Timpo’s stage production of Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye (1970). The digital program for the the production is viewable here.
Lecture: Prof. Sandy Alexandre (MIT), “Striking Images: Black Exhaustion and Passive Resistance in Photography”
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm
Location: Faculty Dinning Room / Hunter College West Building, 8th Floor
Workshop: Profs. Lázaro Lima (Hunter College, CUNY) and Sandy Alexandre (MIT), "Interpreting Black Exhaustion."
Location: Faculty Dinning Room / Hunter College West Building, 8th Floor
Thursday, October 10, 2022
Prof. Israel Reyes. Israel Reyes is a Professor and current Chair of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College, the former Chair of the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program, and holds an Adjunct Appointment with the Comparative Literature Program. He also serves as the Director of Fellowships in the Office of the Provost and organizes mentoring and professional development for a cohort of pre- and postdoctoral fellows. Professor Reyes teaches and conducts research on Latin American, Puerto Rican, and US Latinx literature and culture. His publications include his two books, Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican Literature (2005) and Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater (2022). He has published scholarly articles on Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lalo Alcaraz, Nemesio Canales, Cristina García, Ana Lydia Vega, and Manuel Ramos Otero. He is currently working on a book project on Puerto Rican visual and performance cultures on Chicago's Paseo Boricua.
Lecture: Prof. Israel Reyes, "Uncovering Latinx Perspectives in the U.S. Through Public Art”
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Location: Hunter College, Cooperman Library, Room 512
Workshop: Profs. Lázaro Lima (Hunter College, CUNY) and Israel Reyes (Dartmouth College), "Methods for Analyzing and Interpreting Latinx and Black Art: A Workshop on Seeing and Doing Minoratarian Arts Practice"
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: CENTRO Conference Room / Hunter East Room 1442
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Latinx Heritage Month Convocation Event
Book Discussion: Author Milagros Denis-Rosario (Hunter College, CUNY) in conversation with Lázaro Lima (Hunter College,CUNY) on the occasion of the publication of Drops of Inclusivity (SUNY 2022).
Prof. Denis-Rosario is an associate professor of history in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. She earned her doctorate in Latin America and Caribbean history from Howard University and her master’s in Africana studies from Cornell University. She has been published in the Journal of Pan-African Studies, The Delaware Review of Latin American Studies, Centro Journal, journal Memorias and Latino Studies. Her book, Drops of Inclusivity: Racial Formation and Meanings in Puerto Rican Society, 1898-1960, was published this year.
Time: 4:00 - 5:15 pm
Location: Zoom Event