about Puerto Rico at UT or in the City of Austin
Interdisciplinary Speaker Series: “Puerto Rico in Crisis”
organized by Mónica Jiménez, with help from Ted Gordon AADS, John Gonzalez at CMAS, Karen Engle at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights. 2018.
Visiting Scholar:
“LLILAS-Benson Visiting Resource in 2018-19”
Prof. Carlos Ramos and Prof. Megan Raby (History)
submitted an application to bring Prof. Manuel Valdés Pizzini as a LLILAS-Benson Visiting Resource in 2018-19. He’s an Anthropologist at UPR-Mayaguez and has done extensive work on the governance of coastal and forest resources of Puerto Rico.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7NKl40wAAAAJ&hl=en
submitted in spring 2018
Libraries Outreach:
“Puerto Rican Archives Initiative”
César Salgado, Associate Professor, Dept. Spanish and Portuguese, Program in Comp. Literature
Project to preserve and digitalize archives damaged by Hurricane María in Puerto Rico
2018, Benson Library
Public Talk:
“Rethinking Sovereignty in the Face of Crisis: Lessons from the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party”
by Mónica Jiménez, Assistant Professor in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies
March 28, 2018 (postponed) SRH 1.313, Hosted by LLILAS BENSON
Podcast:
“Rebuilding Puerto Rico”
by Alberto A. Martínez, Professor, Department of History, UT Austin
https://soundcloud.com/thedailytexan/pale-blue-dot-rebuilding-puerto-rico
March 8, 2018, Pale Blue Dot, Daily Texan Podcast, interview by Albert Zhao
Public Talk:
“Puerto Rico in Never-Never Land: Questions of Law and Sovereignty in the Age of PROMESA”
by Mónica Jiménez, Assistant Professor, Department of African & African Diaspora Studies
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/cwgs/events/45123
March 6, 2018, Center for Women’s & Gender Studies, Glickman Conference Center
Fundraiser:
“Donations for Schoolchildren in Aguas Buenas and Cayey”
Gabriel Rodriguez-Rivera, graduate student, and the Club Rotario of Prosper, TX
DHL donated two pallet shipments to Puerto Rico to send School Supplies to PR Students
Link: http://a.co/aG8hRW7
December 1-20, 2017
Organizational Meeting:
“Puerto Rican Organization for Educational Support and Advocacy”
Prof. César Salgado, Prof. Francisco González-Lima, and Prof. Alberto A. Martínez started the steering committee to create an organization of Puerto Ricans at UT Austin, called PROESA
December 9, 2017, Blanton Café
Music Event:
“World Music Night: Caribbean Ensemble”
Prof. Robin Moore
December 8, 2017, Central Market, Butler School of Music
Dance Performance:
“Sembrando Herencia: La Promesa Rebelde”
Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance / Puerto Rican Cultural Center
December 2-3, 2017, George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center
Fundraiser:
“Casino Night: Donations for Hurricane Relief in Puerto Rico”
Student Engineering Council and the Texas Blazers
Casino Night at The Engineering Education and Research Center: “All of the proceeds from the evening went to hurricane relief in Puerto Rico through International Relief Teams.” https://www.dailytexanonline.com/2017/12/03/eerc-hosts-first-student-run-event
December 1, 2017
Exhibit:
“6th Annual Roberto Clemente Memorabilia Display”
http://prfdance.org/perform17.htm
November 4, 2017, Puerto Rican Cultural Center, 701 Tillery Street, Austin
Fundraiser:
“Concert: To Puerto Rico with Love”
University Christian Church; raised more than $7,000 for Puerto Rico relief
http://www.ucc-austin.org/puerto-rico-benefit-concert/
October 28, 2017
Fundraiser:
“Hurricane Maria Relief Continues: Ministry of Relocation”
http://prfdance.org/perform17.htm
http://prfdance.org/travelTourism.htm
October 21, 2017, Puerto Rican Cultural Center, 701 Tillery Street, Austin
Exhibit Opening:
“Deudos / Death Debt: The Art of Eduardo Lalo”
Photographs of Puerto Rico in the economic crisis
Discussion by Prof. César Salgado and Prof. Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/events/event.php?id=45414
October 19, 2017, Benson Latin American Collection
Discussion Panel:
“LLILAS Foro Urgente: Unnatural Disaster: Puerto Rico & the Caribbean after Hurricanes Irma and Maria”
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/events/event.php?id=45373
October 17, 2017, LLILAS & Benson Latin American Collection
Fundraiser:
“UNIDOS relief fund for Puerto Rico and Mexico”
raised over $800 donated to the Hispanic Federation, national Latino nonprofit which created the UNIDOS relief fund in response to Hurricane Maria and the Mexico City earthquake.
October 13, 2017, UT Hispanic Coalition
Fundraiser:
Collected items to donate to HelpingPuertoRico.org
Public Affairs Alliance for Communities of Color (PAACC)
Feminist Latinx Organization Empowering Society (FLORES)
http://diversity.utexas.edu/genderandsexuality/student-groups/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lbjpaacc/#_=_
October 4, 2017, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Lecture:
“La Resistencia: Art, Socio-Politics, and Afro–Puerto Rican Womanhood”
Beth Colón Pizzini, graduate student, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/events/event.php?id=42078
October 5, 2016 | LLILAS, GWB 4.112
Lecture:
“Racial Identity Attitudes and Ego Identity Development in Dominican and Puerto Rican College Students”
Delida Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/events/event.php?id=39829
February 4, 2016, LLILAS, Hackett Room, SRH 1.313
Poetry Forum:
“Am-e-Rícans: First Poéticas para el Siglo XXI Poetry Forum”
Invited poets: Urayoán Noel, Mara Pastor, and Willie Perdomo.
Organized by Prof. César Salgado, Prof. Luis Cárcamo-Huechante and Prof. Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez
April 22, 2011, UT Austin
Lecture:
“Tropical Flanerie in an Off-White City: The FDR Boulevard and Colonial Modernity in San Juan, Puerto Rico, since World War II”
Prof. Luis Figueroa, Trinity College, Distinguished Speakers in Latin American History Series
February 20, 2008, Department of History, Governors’ Room, Texas Union 3.116
Lecture:
“Fin de Siglo: Secrecy and Technologies of the Word in Caribbean Freemasonry”
Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez, Professor, Dept. Spanish and Portuguese
Spetember 2005, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies Conference, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Lecture:
“The Politics of Archival Suppression and Recovery in Puerto Rico: On Editing Lola Rodríguez de Tió’s New York Epistolary (1896-1899)”
César Salgado, Associate Professor, Dept. Spanish and Portuguese, Program in Comp. Literature
December 3, 2004, LLILAs Faculty Fellows Breakfast
Public Talk:
“Talk on the Puerto Rican poet Luis Palés Matos”
César Salgado, Associate Professor, Dept. Spanish and Portuguese, Program in Comp. Literature
October 2, 2000, Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance Company
Conference:
“1898 Revisited: Culture, Archive, and Diaspora After the Spanish-American War”
César Salgado, Associate Professor, Dept. Spanish and Portuguese, Program in Comp. Literature
November 13-14, 1998, UT ILAS and Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese.
Panel Discussion:
“Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in ‘98.”
César Salgado, Associate Professor, Dept. Spanish and Portuguese, Program in Comp. Literature
April 21, 1998, Austin Community College (Río Grande Campus), Foreign Language Dept.
Lecture:
“Archivos Encontrados: Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá o los Diablejos de la Historiografía Puertorriqueña”
César Salgado, Associate Professor, Dept. Spanish and Portuguese, Program in Comp. Literature
February 11, 1997, UT Department of Spanish Faculty Lecture Series
Poetry Reading:
“Nuyorican” poet Martín Espada
Organized by César Salgado, Associate Professor, Dept. Spanish and Portuguese, Program in Comp. Literature
February 22, 1996, Depts. Spanish & Portuguese, English, and ILAS Caribbean Working Group
Roundtable:
“Just Said No: A Panel on United States and Puerto Rico Relations After the 1993 Plebiscite”
Roundtable with Juan Manuel García Passalacqua (Puerto Rican Political Analyst), Carlos Pavón (History Prof., University of Puerto Rico); Federico Subervi (Professor of RTF, UT Austin). Organized by César Salgado, Associate Professor, Dept. Spanish and Portuguese,
March 28, 1994, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese and ILAS Caribbean Working Group.