Biennial Conference
Since 1994, PRSA has organized a Biennial Conference in which its members present their latest work in scholarly and applied research, pedagogy, creative arts and community activism.
Our even-year Biennial Conferences serve as spaces for the professional development of new generations of experts on Puerto Rican Studies, whether they are graduate students or junior faculty with tenure or non-tenure appointments. The conferences also serve as a venue for film and art exhibits, and for academic and trade publishers to showcase their most recent books on Puerto Rican Studies or related fields, such as Latino/Latina Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, or American Studies.
Past Conferences
2022: “Moriviví: Activating Puerto Rican Futures,” Holyoke Community College and Springfield Technical Community College (Holyoke, MA), October 14-16, 2022.
2018: “Navigating Insecurity: Crisis, Power, and Protest in Puerto Rican Communities,” Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), October 26-28.
2016: “Education, Gender, Equity and Social Justice: Puerto Rican Alliances to Advance Change,” University of Maryland (College Park, MD), October 27-30.
2014: “Boricuas / Latin@s in Global Flux: Shifting Spaces of Inflection,” University of Denver and DoubbleTree Hotel (Denver, CO), October 23-26.
2012: “Boricuas and Other Border Crossers: Of Diasporas and Latinidades,” State University of New York at Albany (Albany, NY), October 24-28.
2010: “Cuerpos vigilados y castigados: Resistance and Empowerment in the Body Rican,” (Hartford, CT), October 21-23.
2008: “Cartografías de identidades: Puerto Rico/rriqueños(as) en el siglo XXI / Cartographies of Identities: Puerto Rico(ans) in the 21st Century,” Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe (San Juan, PR), October 1-4.
2006: “Speaking The Unspoken: Race and its Intersections in Puerto Rican Experience,” Cornell University (Ithaca, NY).
2004: “Three Decades of Puerto Rican Studies,” Graduate Center, City University of New York (New York, NY), October 21–24.
2002: Chicago, Illinois
2000: Amherst, Massachusetts
1998: Brooklyn College, CUNY
1996: San Juan, Puerto Rico
1994: Waltham, Massachusetts
Founding Conference: White Plains, New York, September 18-20, 1992.
Help us archive PRSA’s history!
If you have copies of any past conference documents, such as calls-for-papers, conference programs, post-conference reports, or any other type of material, including photos or videos, please contact us at ricanstudies@gmail.com. Documenting and preserving the history of PRSA, and of Puerto Rican Studies in general, is one of our top priorities.