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This panel examines the future of Puerto Rican studies through the lens of archival research, exploring how evolving methodologies can challenge existing frameworks and open new avenues for examination. Panelists will discuss the intersections between archival practices and decolonial scholarship, considering how the archive can be used to rethink Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.
What is Rooted + Relational?
Rooted + Relational is a five year research initiative at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies funded by the Mellon Foundation which seeks to reimagine the research agenda and scholarly and community impact of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) in the US and beyond. This series of projects aims to make CENTRO a public facing, horizontal, decolonial feminist institute that opens new paths in academia and expands community-driven research that expands beyond the walls of the academy. This proposed project strategically links the center’s research agenda, data hub projects, media, arts and culture output, scholarly mentoring initiatives, and community partnerships by creating annual thematic structures that will address some of the most pressing social, political, and economic issues facing Puerto Rico and the diaspora. The goal is to create a unifying higher learning community at CENTRO that tends to the intellectual and cultural needs of our committed and diverse public.
About CENTRO
Founded in 1973 by a coalition of students, faculty, and activists, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. Learn more at centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
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This panel examines the future of Puerto Rican studies through the lens of archival research, exploring how evolving methodologies can challenge existing frameworks and open new avenues for examination. Panelists will discuss the intersections between archival practices and decolonial scholarship, considering how the archive can be used to rethink Puerto Rico’s past, present, and future.
What is Rooted + Relational?
Rooted + Relational is a five year research initiative at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies funded by the Mellon Foundation which seeks to reimagine the research agenda and scholarly and community impact of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) in the US and beyond. This series of projects aims to make CENTRO a public facing, horizontal, decolonial feminist institute that opens new paths in academia and expands community-driven research that expands beyond the walls of the academy. This proposed project strategically links the center’s research agenda, data hub projects, media, arts and culture output, scholarly mentoring initiatives, and community partnerships by creating annual thematic structures that will address some of the most pressing social, political, and economic issues facing Puerto Rico and the diaspora. The goal is to create a unifying higher learning community at CENTRO that tends to the intellectual and cultural needs of our committed and diverse public.
About CENTRO
Founded in 1973 by a coalition of students, faculty, and activists, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) is the largest university-based research institute, library, and archive dedicated to the Puerto Rican experience in the United States. Learn more at centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
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Instagram: instagram.com/centropr
Facebook: facebook.com/centropr
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Support our work by donating today at community.hunter.cuny.edu/supportcentro
