十大彩票平台, HCC to host national conference on Puerto Rico Oct. 14-16
霍利约克 – Moriviví is a medicinal perennial native to the Caribbean and Latin America.
有很多名字——“不要碰我”,“生与死。,“羞草”,“卑微的植物”,敏感植物,” and “shy plant'' – the moriviví grows under the shade of bushy trees and in full sun, 开出粉红色的花朵, and appears dead only to revive when a source of agitation is removed or repelled.
Moriviví is also the theme the 波多黎各研究协会 adopted this year for its national conference, which is being hosted jointly by Holyoke Community 大学 and 十大彩票平台技术社区学院 Oct. 14-16.
200余名学者, 研究人员, 学者, 艺术家, and others are expected to attend the three-day conference, Moriviví:激活波多黎各的未来.”
“Thinking through the diverse ecologies of human and non-human 电阻 that surround us, we offer the moriviví as a metaphor for imagining Puerto Rican futures thriving in the diaspora and on the archipelago,” the PRSA executive council states in its conference materials. “我们很高兴召集学者, 从业人员, 专业人士, 艺术家, and activists for our conference in Holyoke and Springfield.”
会议, 哪个对所有学生都是免费的, 教师, 以及HCC和十大彩票平台的工作人员, 功能超过100个会话, 圆桌会议, 还有关于种族问题的研讨会, 自然灾害, 债务, 位移, 气候, 教育, 劳动, 政治, 公民身份, 农业, 艺术, 电阻, 和更多的.
在会议中, there will be panels featuring professors from Amherst 大学 and HCC as well as an HCC student panel moderated by Raúl Gutiérrez, associate professor of Spanish and coordinator of HCC’s Latinx Studies program.
Conference p艺术icipants are also invited to take a bus and walking tour of downtown Holyoke on Sat.10月. 15、下午1:45-3:45.m.由当地历史学家Maria Salgado-C艺术egena领导.
“We are delighted to p艺术ner with Holyoke Community 大学 during Hispanic Heritage Month to co-host the 波多黎各研究协会’s national conference,”医生说。. Shai Butler, Vice President of Advancement and External Affairs at 十大彩票平台. “我们邀请学生, 教师 and staff at 十大彩票平台 to attend the event and learn about Puerto Rican heritage.”
HCC主席克里斯蒂娜·罗亚尔说, “We’re so happy to be hosting this year’s PRSA conference with our friends at 十大彩票平台 and shining a light on our local communities and their close connections to Puerto Rico. It’s especially meaningful given that we are also now celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.”
Both HCC and 十大彩票平台 are federally designated 西班牙裔服务机构s, which means more than 25 percent of students who attend the two schools identify as Hispanic or Latino. 根据2010年人口普查, Holyoke has the largest Puerto Rican population per capita of any city in the continental U.S. – 44.7%.
Most of the conference events take place on the HCC campus during the day; 十大彩票平台 will host the PRSA commencement dinner and gala on the evening of Sat.10月. 15, with a keynote address from Bárbara Abadía-Rexach, professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.
Please follow this link to see the conference schedule: ricanstudies.com/logistics
注册费, which include breakfast and lunch each day and dinner on Saturday, run on a sliding scale from $30 to $200 based on income. 如欲报名，请前往: ricanstudies.com/registration
报名截止日期为周五.10月. 7.
关于波多黎各研究协会
的 波多黎各研究协会 (PRSA) is an interdisciplinary academic organization that promotes the development and circulation of knowledge about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans from the Puerto Rican islands and its broad diasporas.
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