Beyond Traditional: Puerto Rican Culture Today

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Coined "a forgotten spot in the Caribbean" by Hamilton composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, the U.S. unincorporated Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has been the subject of renewed national attention in the wake of the devastating Hurricane Maria in 2017 and island-wide summer protests of 2019 to oust the then governor, Ricardo Rosselló.

The course interrogates Puerto Rican culture on its own terms - shifting from traditional definitions of the island's identity formation from multiple cultural influences to contemporary critiques centering historically marginalized communities amidst ongoing climate and economic precarity.

For an island defined by a liminality of political status and a historically-contingent stateside diaspora, how do we re-conceptualize the traditional as well as embrace the contemporary?

This speaker series explores and archives a selection of thought around and analysis of material and immaterial cultural productions originating from island and stateside diaspora communities. Speakers represent a range of diverse positionalities from archaeologists and art historians, to museum curators and educators.

Our remote Trinity classroom in Spring 2021 invites the viewers of this channel - Hartford community members and beyond - to join a conversation as we consider new, critical understandings of the island's cultural legacy and more importantly - its future.

- Amanda Guzman

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Puerto Rican Futures

Puerto Rican Futures

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Welcome back for the final time for the last speaker of our series! We conclude our series with Natasha Fernandez-Preston, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the…
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Puerto Rican Publics

Puerto Rican Publics

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Welcome back for the second to last time! We continue our speaker series with Magdalena Mieri, Director of the Program in Latino History and Culture and Civic…
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Puerto Rican Protest

Puerto Rican Protest

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Welcome back! We're now closing in on the last few weeks of our speaker series. We continue our speaker series with Marisol Ramos, a University of California,…
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Puerto Rican Hartford

Puerto Rican Hartford

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Welcome back! We continue our speaker series with Elena Rosario, a current PhD candidate in History at the University of Michigan and emerging public historian…
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Puerto Rican Graphics

Puerto Rican Graphics

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Welcome back again! We continue our speaker series with Lisa Ortega-Pol, the museum educator at the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art at the University of Puerto…
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Puerto Rican Architecture

Puerto Rican Architecture

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Welcome back! We continue our speaker series with Gloria Colom Braña who is a current PhD candidate in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana…
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Puerto Rican Exhibition

Puerto Rican Exhibition

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Welcome back! We continue our speaker series with archaeologist and MET Museum Assistant Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas, James Doyle and the exhibition, Arte…
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Puerto Rican Archaeology

Puerto Rican Archaeology

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Welcome! We start off our speaker series with Puerto Rican archaeologist and National Museum of the American Indian curator, Antonio Curet with his talk entitled,…

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