Boletín v.21 (2016)

This pasT fall lalsi partnered with important NYC, national and international institutions to offer timely and impacting programming on latin america and latinos in the United states.This year we decided to focus on race and Caribbean studies in honor of our recently deceased colleague Dr. Christopher schmidt-Nowara whose innovative work on the history of antislavery movements in Cuba and puerto Rico and transatlantic and iberian empire studies, teaching and supportive and generous mentoring of students and colleagues alike continues to inspire us.We collaborated with the United Nations and the Periwinkle Initiative to celebrate international Day of Remembrance with a panel on Women, Creativity, and the Memory of Slavery.The panel featured distinguished women artists and scholars who discussed the representation of slavery by women artists of african descent throughout the americas.in October, lalsi joined Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and New York University's M.A. Program in Creative Writing in Spanish to sponsor a series of talks at our three institutions on the very timely puerto Rican Debt Crisis.at fordham we hosted a conversation on The Puerto Rican Financial Crisis in Historical Context with two of New York's best known puerto Rican scholars and political analysts: Nelson Denis, author of the best-selling The War against All Puerto Ricans, and the acclaimed NY Daily News and Democracy Now! journalist Juan Gonzalez, author of Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America and News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media.The conversation was moderated by luisita lopez Torregrosa, the NY Times journalist and memoirist, author of The Infinite Noise of Longing, who is a distinguished adjunct in journalism in our program.in November we partnered with the Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York to cosponsor the presentation of a new book on the contribution of Cuban baseball to U.s. baseball and its impact on the breaking of the U.s. color barrier in this sport, César Brioso's Havana Hardball.and we brought to the university one of the top authorities on the history of race relations in Cuba, the distinguished scholar and researcher at the José Martí National library, Tomás fernández Robaina, author of Blacks in Cuba 1902-1958: Notes on the History of the Struggle against Racial Discrimination, who spoke on race, religion, Dr. Christopher Schmidt-Nowarra (1966-2015)and the Cuban state. in December we partnered with WNET New York Public Media to offer a screening and panel discussion of the PBS American Masters film Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey, on the distinguished career of this often-overlooked Mexican american photographer.and we celebrated the launch of Rafael lamas's latest book, Escuchar e interpreter: Ostracismos musicales en los albores de la conciencia moderna española, by cosponsoring a musical performance and oral presentation, directed by Dr. lamas, on the impact of modernity on spanish musical traditions and its exilic artists.

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