Thursday, March 28, 2019
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (ET)
Anthony F. Ceddia Union Building CUB123 - Orndorff Theatre
Event Type
Academics Speakers & Programs
Contact
Ana Morana
717-477-1196
Department
Ethnic Studies
Link
https://events.ship.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=89129
Artists, activists, and scholars have responded in diverse ways to the devastation of Hurricane María, a category four storm that made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017. In this presentation, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes addresses the poetry and blog posts of Mayra Santos-Febres and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Sonia Fritz’s documentary Después de María: Las dos orillas, and the collaborative Listening to Puerto Rico video archive.
Presenter:
Lawrence La
Fountain-Stokes is associate professor of American Culture, Romance
Languages and Literatures, and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, and the acting director of the Latina/o Studies Program (2018–19).