UMass Boston

New England Consortium of Latina/o Studies fall and spring symposia

Events: Co-sponsored Events

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Co-Sponsored Programs

"Countering Reproductive Genocide in Gaza: Palestinian Women’s Testimonies"
Sarah Ihmoud, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross
Sponsored by the Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
12:30 - 1:45 PM EST
Conference Room 3545, Campus Center

Human Rights Minor Keynote Speaker
Patrick Sylvain, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor of Humanities, Simmons University
Professor Sylvain is a Haitian-American poet, writer, social and literary critic, and photographer who has been published widely on Haiti and Haitian diaspora culture, politics, language, and religion. poet, writer, and literary critic
October 31, 2024
1:30 - 3:30 pm
Campus Center, Ballroom A

News

Congratulations to Chris Barcelos and Lorena Estrada Martínez on being awarded tenure! Professor Barcelos is a feminist scholar and educator working in the fields of gender and sexualities studies, public health, and sociology. Professor Estrada Martínez is interested in understanding and reducing health inequities, particularly those related to mental health outcomes in racial/ethnic minorities and immigrant communities in the U.S. 

Made in NuYoRico: Latin Music, Fania Records, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings, by Marisol Negrón, will be published by Duke University Press in fall 2024 as part of their Refiguring American Music series with an accompanying Spotify playlist featuring songs from the book. Made in NuYoRico traces how salsa’s aesthetics challenged dominant narratives of both Americanness and Puerto Ricanness, producing an alternative public sphere through which New York’s poor and working-class Puerto Ricans could contest racialization and colonial power. 

Rosalyn Negrón, Lorena M. Estrada-Martínez, and Marisol Negrón published “Climate Displacement and Migration after Hurricane Maria: Implications for Puerto Ricans’ Mental Health” in Climate Justice and Public Health Realities, Responses, and Reimaginings for a Better Future (University of Massachusetts Press 2024). The volume, co-edited by Rajini Srikanth, dean of faculty and professor of English at the UMass Boston, expands the climate and health equity discussions to populations all over the globe. The contributors in this volume address an impressive and broad range of topics that include Indigenous health and cultural practices, mental and emotional health, senior health, and impacts on African American communities. 

Lorna Rivera and Fabián Torres Ardilla published the report “Transfer Pathways: Ensuring Transfer Student Success” as part of the publication series of the Gastón Institute at UMass Boston. Co-authored with UMass Boston doctoral students Jonathan Vega Martínez and Michelle Sunday, this report reflects the partnership between the UMass Boston’s Gastón Institute and Bunker Hill Community College’s Center for Equity and Cultural Wealth to build cultural inclusivity in curricular and co-curricular practices with the diverse student bodies served by both postsecondary institutions.