Writing Puerto Rico in Times of Crisis

Saludos socios y amigos del Círculo Hispanoamericano de Charleston. Por favor marque el 17 de septiembre en su calendario para que asista a nuestra quinta Charla Magistral. Esta promete ser muy interesante. El orador será el Dr. Jorell Melendez Badillo, profesor asociado de historia en la universidad de Wisconsin.

Fifth Annual Círculo Hispanoamericano de Charleston’s Keynote Lecture Series
Writing Puerto Rico in Times of Crisis
Thursday, September 17, 5:30 pm

Dr. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

College of Charleston School of Education Alumni Center, 86 Wentworth Street – enter through courtyard on Saint Philip Street

Puerto Rican history has been a contested space ever since its early days. From Fray Íñigo Abad y la Sierra’s 1788 book to Paul G. Miller’s Historia de Puerto Rico in the early twentieth century, the production of history has served different political purposes. This lecture will explore the ways that history teaching and writing gave way to racialized tropes of Puerto Rican docility and laziness. More recently, however, the state has moved to silence or erase the past through Puerto Rico’s “politics of forgetting.” The talk ends with the ways that these ideas are being challenged by artists and cultural producers, specifically focusing on the impact of Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FoTOS.

Free and open to the public - Lecture will be in English, followed by a reception.
Co-sponsored by the College of Charleston Department of Hispanic Studies and College of Charleston Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The Círculo Hispanoamericano de Charleston is a non-profit organization 501(c)(3) established in 1978 with the purpose of contributing to the understanding, appreciation, promotion, and dissemination of the Hispanic American culture in the Charleston, South Carolina area.
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