Call for Applications: Visiting Scholars and Artists from Puerto Rico
Monday, May 7, 2018
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This effort aims to provide relief to scholars, students, and artists by allowing them to continue their work at Princeton on a temporary basis. The visitors program provides a range of support including a stipend to cover living expenses, access to libraries and other scholarly material, and an opportunity to engage with colleagues at Princeton.
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Petition of a free woman of color, 1823
The Princeton University Library and Program in Latin American Studies, now celebrating its 50th anniversary, are pleased to announce the acquisition of historical manuscripts about African slavery and the plantation economy in colonial and imperial Brazil.-
This spring, 12 Princeton undergraduates in the course “Inca Art and Architecture” learned firsthand the critical role that landscape can play in the structure of a civilization — while challenging their own perceptions of what “civilization” means.
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Watch the video from our recent 50th Anniversary Symposium. This event brought together current and former directors, faculty, staff, and students to reflect upon the early beginnings of the program and to discuss future trajectories in Latin American Studies.
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ANTONIO MARTORELL (1939–) MASK, 1979 SILKSCREEN AND COLLAGE ON PAPER From the Portfolio Loas, 1979, based on a text on Afro-Caribbean deities and rituals by Antonio T. Díaz-Royo. This text inspired Atibón Ogú, Erzulí, a choreodrama by Alma Concepción, for Taller de Histriones, a Puerto Rican mime company directed by Gilda Navarra. Set designs, costumes, and body art by Martorell. Music by Emmanuel “Sunshine” Logroño.
February 15 – June 15, 2018 From the Collection of Alma Concepción and Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones Princeton, New Jersey.-
After returning to campus for his 10th year Reunion celebration, Antonio Lacayo ’07 reflects upon what his Princeton experience meant to him. It was a place for exploration, of being completely aware of your identify and yet completely free at the same time.
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Quipu, before 1532
Undyed cotton; spun, plied, and knotted
78 × 101 cm (30 11/16 × 39 3/4 in.)
Princeton Mesoamerican Manuscripts Division, CO940, no. 5, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library. Gift of Gerard B. Lambert
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In celebration of the fiftieth year of the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University, this installation features artists from Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Peru.-
The Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an array of exciting and thought-provoking events this semester. Over Princeton’s history, PLAS has been and continues to be the home for scholars and students seeking to engage with the history and the contemporary issues that characterize Latin America.
Events
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Film Screening of "Inin Niwe: The Plant Healer"
Wed, May 23, 2018, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm -
"In the Nation’s Service – How Princetonians Are Strengthening Our Relationship to Puerto Rico"
Thu, May 31, 2018, 4:30 pm
News
Friday, May 11, 2018
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Sounding Board
Wednesday, Apr 25, 2018
In the fall of 2018, Princeton’s history department will offer
Wednesday, Mar 7, 2018
Emeritus Professor Arcadio Díaz Quiñones writes on Puerto Rico, silenced history, and memory.
Friday, Feb 23, 2018
Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman on Pablo Neruda, immigration, and Spanish war refugees in the 1930s and reflects on the meaning of solidarity today