Puerto Rico in the Wake of Crisis: Toward a Just (After)life of Disaster

November 30December 1, 2018

Schedule

November 30, 2018

Time Session Information
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Registration

Joseph D. Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300)

2:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Welcome & Opening Panel

Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306)

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  • Karen Engle

    Co-director The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

    Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law The University of Texas at Austin School of Law

  • Minkah Makalani

    Director John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies

    Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies The University of Texas at Austin

  • Mónica Jiménez

    Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies The University of Texas at Austin

Re-orienting Puerto Rican Scholarship in the Wake of Crisis

Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306)

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Panelists

  • Sarah Molinari

    PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology City University of New York

  • José Atiles

    Adjunct Professor of Philosophy University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez

    Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Social Studies University of Coimbra

  • Marisol LeBrón

    Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies The University of Texas at Austin

  • Barbara Abadia-Rexach

    Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Anthropology University of Puerto Rico - Rio Pierdas

Chair/Respondent

  • Nicole Burrowes

    Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies The University of Texas at Austin

4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Break

4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Disaster Capitalism, Colonialism, and Climate

Eidman Courtroom (CCJ 2.306)

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  • Elizabeth Yeampierre

    Executive Director UPROSE

    2018 Frances Tarlton “Sissy” Farenthold Endowed Lecturer in Peace, Social Justice, and Human Rights

In conversation with

  • Mónica Jiménez

    Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies The University of Texas at Austin

Introduction

  • Karen Engle

    Co-director The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

    Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law The University of Texas at Austin School of Law

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Reception

Joseph D. Jamail Pavilion (CCJ 2.300)

December 1, 2018

Time Session Information
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Breakfast and Welcome

Gordon White Building Multipurpose Room (GWB 2.206)

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Roundtable: Health and Environment in Crisis

Gordon White Building Multipurpose Room (GWB 2.206)

Panelists

  • Jeffrey Howard

    Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Health and Nutrition The University of Texas at San Antonio

  • Domingo Marques

    Professor of Psychology Albizu University

    Director of the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Research Program Ponce Health Sciences University

  • Carlos Ramos Scharrón

    Assistant Professor of Geography & the Environment and of Latin American Studies The University of Texas at Austin

Moderator

  • Pavithra Vasudevan

    Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies The University of Texas at Austin

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Roundtable: Puerto Rican Futures in the Making: Art and Activism

Gordon White Building Multipurpose Room (GWB 2.206)

Panelists

Moderator

  • Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez

    Chair and Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and African and African Diaspora Studies The University of Texas at Austin