TH, Sept 5: Digital Justice
PerlArte’s mural in La Perla
Four mutual aid organizations from across the Puerto Rican archipelago share their digital justice projects that combine digital humanities and social justice. Listen to the women coffee farmers’ collective of CAMJI Bartolo, learn herbal healing from elders at CAMJI Lares, hear stories rooted in place from La Perla with Colectivo PerlArte, and follow the history of music and community with Fundación de Culebra. Be sure to find our listening station and record your own story! This project is generously funded by a Digital Justice Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies.
9am Coffee Tasting with coffee from Carajillo Coffee House, Yauco, UPRM Library Patio
10:30am Digital Justice Project Showcase, Sala A in the UPRM Library
Pluma Bárbara, CAMJI Lares – Lorel Cubano Santiago, PerlArte – Douglas Lang, Fundación de Culebra – Marian Martínez Vidal, CAMJI Bartolo – Andrés Octavo, CAMJI Bartolo – Tommy Padrón Friedman, Fundación de Culebra – Carlos Rafael Pitirre, CAMJI Lares – Luz Rivera Cantwell, Fundación de Culebra – Elisa Sánchez Torres, CAMJI Bartolo – Yadianis Umpierre, PerlArte – Diana Viera, CAMJI Lares
TH, Sept 12: Water Stories
Watch our documentary film, Todavía Estamos Aquí (We Are Still Here), about the water crisis in the underserved community of Bario Rucio in Peñuelas, and the work that our partners at the mutual aid organization Impacto Juventud have done to help through their project Aula en la Montaña. To be followed by a Q+A with community members, project leaders, and student and faculty filmmakers. Stay after the film to listen to a panel of water protectors and water quality experts tell stories about the most urgent issues related to clean and safe water—and how we can protect it! Be sure to find our listening station and record your own story!
8:30am Opening of the Exhibit
9am Todavía Estamos Aquí screening with Q+A, Sala A in the UPRM Library
Raisa Bonnet Ocasio – Eduardo Lugo Hernández – Helga Maldonado – Jorge Santiago Fernández – Carhianie Vargas Padín
10:30am Water Protectors’ Panel, Sala A in the UPRM Library
Anthony Díaz, Newark Water Coalition – Eduardo Lugo Hernández, Department of Psychology, UPRM – Graciela I. Ramírez-Toro, Center for Environmental Education, Conservation and Interpretation (CECIA), Interamerican University of Puerto Rico – Steve Tamar, Blue Water Task Force of Surfrider de Rincón – Pedro Tarafa, Department of Civil Engineering, UPRM
F, Sept 20: Storytelling in the Aftermath [ONLINE]
Join storytellers from multiple genres as they share excerpts from their work related to disaster, trauma, survival, and healing. Bringing together children’s book authors, comix artists, filmmakers, oral history narrators, poets, and social media curators, the storytellers on this panel explore together how telling stories based upon personal experiences helps them navigate challenges and changes.
10:00am Storytellers’ Panel, ONLINE
Zaira Arvelo Alicea, OHL @UPRM – Loretta Collins Klobach, Department of English, UPR-Río Piedras – Rosa Colon, Soda Pop Comics – Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi, FistUP.tv – Edgardo Miranda Rodriguez, Somos Arte – Lale Namerrow Pastor, Transmasc Network of Puerto Rico – Linda Rodríguez Guglielmoni, Department of English, UPRM
Moderator: Edcel Cintrón González, Illinois State University
Th, Sept 26: Mutual Aid Stories, A Celebration of Come Colegial
Learn about our digital humanities project built in partnership with the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico, a collaboration between the OHL, UPR-Río Piedras, Michigan State University, and the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC). This project builds digital spaces for conversations between mutual aid organizations in the Puerto Rican archipelago and the event spotlights our partner, Come Colegial, as we unveil the Omeka S subsite we built to celebrate their 10 years of addressing food insecurity on our campus. Be sure to find our listening station and record your own story! This event is supported by the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico through a generous grant from the Presidential Stream of the Mellon Foundation.
10:30-11am Welcome, edificio Monzón, salón M201
11-11:30 OHL overview of the AREPR Omeka S subsite
Natalia Betancourt Malavé – Aleyshka Estevez Quintana – Natalia Hernández Mejías
11:30-12:30 OHL + Come Colegial Free Brunch, Monzón 202
F, Oct 11: Oral Historian Meet Up
Hear about oral history projects across the archipelago, featuring a keynote address from the National Historian of Puerto Rico, Carlos Hernández Hernández. Followed by a social gathering sponsored by the Oral History Association.
2pm in the GRIC, University Library
Accompanied by: Women Coffee Harvesters: Protagonists in the History of Coffee in Puerto Rico
Photo by Andrés Octavo
A photography exhibition by Andrés Octavo
A photographer on a mission to build and spread a visual reference that documents the customs, traditions, culture, and sociopolitical conditions of Puerto Rico. In the face of the threat to Puerto Rican identity due to the process of cultural assimilation, a product of the colonial relationship with the United States, this reference seeks to be a tool of national affirmation for Puerto Ricans, both for the present and for posterity.
