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This symposium will highlight the wide-ranging impact of Lorgia García-Peña's scholarship, particularly her acclaimed 2016 book, The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction. Distinguished speakers will reflect on the significance of her work for multiple fields, including Latinx Studies, Black Studies, and Women and Gender Studies, as well as for the theme of this year's Charles Warren Center fellowship, The Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies. This event will be live-streamed at warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu.
9:15 Welcome
9:30-11:40 Ethnic Studies and Lorgia García Peña's Scholarship
George Lipsitz (UCSB)
Lourdes Torres (De Paul, and editor of Latino Studies)
Laura Briggs (UMASS Amherst)
Chris Rodelo (Harvard, graduate student)
11:40-12:50 Lunch
1:00-2:40 Dominicanidad's Diasporic Reverberations
Elizabeth Manley (Xavier)
Silvio Torres-Saillant (Syracuse)
Ginetta Candelario (Smith)
2:40-2:55 Break
3:00-5:10 What we are fighting for: Lorgia García Peña's Scholarly Legacy
Ramona Hernández (CUNY)
Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA)
Cornel West (Harvard)
Keish Kim (Harvard, graduate student)
5:10-5:30 Closing remarks
Ju Yon Kim (Harvard)
Genevieve Clutario (Wellesley)
Presented by the Warren Center for Studies in American History, with support from:
The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
The Committee on Degrees in History and Literature
The Mahindra Humanities Center
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
The Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
The Afro Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center
Duke University Press is offering open access to The Borders of Dominicanidad until Feburary 6, 2020: https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373667
For 30% off print copies, use coupon code (E19GRCIA) during checkout at https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-borders-of-dominicanidad