Ivette Cruzado Is Cormac McCarthy’s The Road an Engineering Project? Tinta regada1 de mayo de 2025 As part of the STEM to STEAM project, I was invited to think about a novel—Cormac McCarthy’s The Road—and reflect on the book, giving it a perspective from an…
Rabeb Touihri Nowhere and Everywhere: The Immigrant’s Search for Home Tinta regada1 de mayo de 2025 While modern politics revolves around new policies to combat rapidly changing demographics and the struggle to maintain national identity, this is only half the picture. Whether it is the…
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Resumen: Una barbie es una muñeca de plástico que se puede vestir de varias formas, pero como bien señala Emily Aguiló-Pérez, profesora en West Chester College, también es un aparato imperialista que tiene una huella particular en Puerto Rico. “I was examining this aspect through the lens of Barbie as colonizer,” comenta Aguiló-Pérez, “What I…
Puntos clave/s: Episodio realizado por Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Catedrático de Humanidades, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez (UPR-M), Angie Natalia Bustos (UPR-M) y Camilo Durán (ingeniero, egresado de la UPR-M). Este podcast y el Instituto Nuevos Horizontes son patrocinados por la Mellon Foundation. En su conversación sobre Sharing Our Science, Herlihy-Mera, Bustos y Durán dialogan sobre la importancia…
Summary: “Golden Age” by Heidi Landecker appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education on 4 September 2024. The article discusses the scholarship of Jean H. Baker, Samuel Jay Keyser, and Lucy Freeman Sandler, three scholars who produce significant work in their nineties. Landecker highlights their enduring passion for scholarship and addresses broader societal conversations about the academy,…
Summary: “Dos miradas: Israel y el judaísmo en Puerto Rico” by Dariel U. González García (אוריאל בן אברהם), Universidad de Puerto Rico en Mayagüez, was published in Perspectivas sobre cuestiones globales in 2024. The text examines the historical roots of the Puerto Rican Jewish community, from its beginnings during Spanish colonization in the 15th century, with emphasis…
Giannina Braschi (novelista y poeta) y María del Pilar Blanco (Oxford)
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Emilia Quiñones Otal, UPR-M, Apertura
Cora Monroe González, UPR-M, Interlocutora
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, UPR-M, Moderador
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18 de marzo de 2025
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Giannina Braschi, Charla Magistral, “Crear un género”
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