Trouble in Paradise: Puerto Rico After Maria
A look at 21st century Puerto Rico, especially in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis. Conversation about the status quo and communities standing up when faced with social abandonment.
Presented in collaboration with Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA), Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico School of Law, Consulado General de México en Boston, Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF) and The Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard
Opening remarks: Julio Fontanet (Dean, School of Law, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico), Pedro Reina (Director of Harvard-Puerto Rico Winter Institute), Doris Sommer (Founder and Faculty Director, Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University) and Carmen Oquendo-Villar (Santo Domingo Visiting Scholar DRCLAS)
Disaster and Postdisaster: Después de María: Las dos orillas (Directed by Sonia Fritz)
Presented by Francisco Colom, Graduate Student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design & Participant of the 2019 Harvard-Puerto Rico Winter Institute and Laura Pérez Sánchez, Nieman Fellow, examining Puerto Rico’s ongoing reconstruction and use of relief funds after Hurricane Maria.
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Photo: Después de María: Las dos orillas
Economic Hardship: The Battle for Paradise: Naomi Klein Reports From Puerto Rico
Presented by Pedro Reina, Director of Harvard-Puerto Rico Winter Institute
Communities Stand Up: Brigada Puerta de Tierra (Coordinated by Jesús Bubu Negrón and Luis Agosto Leduc)
Presented by Doris Sommer (Founder and Faculty Director, Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University) and José Falconi (President, Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University)
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Photo: Brigada Puerta de Tierra
Round Table Conversation: Pedro Reina, Doris Sommer, Jose Falconi, Brigada Puerta de Tierra, Laura Perez Sanchez, and Francisco Colom
Moderated by: Carmen Oquendo-Villar
Series presented in collaboration with Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion, Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard, School of Law Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Consulado General de Mexico en Boston, The Boston Latino International Film Festival (BLIFF), The Theater Offensive, and Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival.
LOCATION:CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20190419T210000Z DTEND:20190420T010000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR