Upcoming Events (2022)
Hugo Achugar ( poet, ensayist, and researcher) presentation at FAU (Forthcoming on March 23, 2022)
Recent Events (2021)
- Graduate Students Colloquium: "African Diaspora in Latin America Graduate Student Colloquium." Keynote Speaker: Dr. Agnes Lugo-Ortiz (University of Chicago). November 8, 2021.
- Guest speaker series: Conversations on racial politics and social justics in Latin America and the Caribbean:
Dr. Vanessa Valdés (City College odf New York). "A Case for Afro-Latinx: The Towering Example of Arturo A. Schomburg." February 17, 2020.
Dr. Nick Jones (Bucknell University) “Staging Habla de Negros in Early Modern Spain.” March 4, 2020.
Dr. Cesar Thomas Castilho (Vanderbilt University) "Breaking the Silence: The Black Press, Abolition, and Brazilian Citizenship, ca. 1876." March, 31 2021.
Dr. Aisha Finch (UCLA) “In Sugar's Time: Temporality, Violence, and Fugitivity in the Plantation World of Nineteenth-Century Cuba.” September 30, 2021.
Dr. Benita Sampedro Vizcaya, Hofstra University (New York) “Theories of confinement and freedom in the 19th century Iberian Black Atlantic." October 15, 2021
Dr. Agnes Lugo-Ortiz (University of Chicago) "Figures of Liminality: Women, Portraiture and Enslavement at the Thresholds of Emancipation." November 8, 2021.
Dr. Nuria Godón (FAU) "La figura del indiano." September 16, 2021
- Film series / Mediterranean Movement:
Retorno a Hansala
/ Return to Hansala (2008) by Chus Gutierrez. March 24, 2021.
- Other collaborations and interrelated areas in the field of Hispanic cultural studies: "
Corridos Visuales: Tradition & Innovationin LatinX Printmaking" February 13th-April 10th, 2020.