Past Events
PRSA 2024 Conference Keynote
Watch the live recording of the introduction to the conference keynote by PRSA president, Marisol LeBrón, and enjoy the full remarks by Ileana Rodríguez Silva, Professor of History at the University of Washington.
Writing Nationalisms
Virtual panel with several scholars whose recent and forthcoming works provide new perspectives on histories about Puerto Rican nationalist struggles in Puerto Rico and the diaspora. Panelists include Iris Morales, Karrieann Soto Vega, Lisa Materson, Margaret M. Power, and Mónica A. Jiménez, and it was moderated by Michael J. Staudenmaier.
2023 PRSA
Symposium
The theme for the 2023 Symposium was “Rican Bodies” and it consisted of a roundtable and a plenary. Here you can find videos of the roundtable and plenary sessions. The "Ricanizing Disability Studies" roundtable features Pó Rodil, Natalia M. Rivera Morales, Jorge Matos Valldejuli, and Karlié Rodríguez. It was moderated by Daniel J. Vázques Sanabria and Daniel Nevárez Araujo. Content Warning: there is language that may be considered sensitive for some viewers. The “Movement and Movement Building” plenary features Jade Power-Sotomayor, Shakti Castro, Melissa Rosario, and Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé.
2022 PRSA Conference Keynote:
Bárbara Abadía-Rexach
The 2022 PRSA Conference Keynote featured Bárbara Abadía-Rexach. It was delivered in Spanish, and it is replicated in its original form here. Employing “moriviví” as metaphor, she reflects on her journey as an Afro-Puerto Rican woman in the U.S. academy and in Puerto Rico. Transcript (en español) can be found here.
2021 PRSA Symposium Plenary Panel—Critical Rican Race Studies
Moderator, Karrieann Soto Vega, asks questions to panelists Julie Torres, Shantee Rosado, Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva, Sherina Feliciano-Santos, and Christina M. González.
2020 Frank Bonilla Award Celebration
During the 2021 PRSA Symposium, Marisol LeBrón moderated a conversation with Ismael García-Colón, winner of the 2020 Frank Bonilla Book Award, and honorable mention holders, Helena Hansen and Patricia Silver.
2020 Virginia Sánchez-Korrol Dissertation Award Ceremony
PRSA President, Joaquín Villanueva, has a conversation with Julie Torres, Laura Kaplan, Keishla Rivera-López, and Elizabeth Borges-Ocasio.
Publish Your Boricua Paper in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Journal editors explain and demistify the process for scholars interested in publishing Puerto Rican and Latina/o/x Studies. With Xavier Totti (Centro Journal), Lourdes Torres (Latino Studies), and Don Walicek (Sargasso). Co-hosted with LASA-PR Section.
Puerto Rican Studies: Current and Future Practices
Collaboration with the Puerto Rican Alliance in the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, and the Brooklyn College Comité, in their Possible Dream Encuentro: Latinx Arts, Communities and Leadership, to bring you a cross-disciplinary and inter-generational panel on “Puerto Rican Studies: Current and Future Practices” featuring Yomaira Figueroa Vásquez, Sarah Bruno, Anaís Delilah Roque, and Beth Colón Pizzini.
Black Diasporic Saberes: Reorienting Puerto Rican Studies
Event co-sponsored with the Association for the Study of Worldwide African Diaspora. Featuring Krista Cortes, María Rodríguez Beltrán, Beth Colón-Pizzini, and Mayra Santos-Febres. Moderated by Solsiree del Moral.
Thursday, March 25th at 3 pm EST.
“Getting Your Boricua Book Published”
PRSA and LASA Puerto Rico Section collaboration event. Friday, March 12th at 3 PM (EST). A Panel Discussion with Gisela Fosado (Duke University Press), Dawn Durante (University of Texas Press) and Beatriz Llenín Figueroa (Editora Educación Emergente). The event will be in Spanglish and open to the public.