LACS Carnival Week: Creative
Resistance. Join us in celebrating the Latin American & Caribbean region's
characteristic creative resistance in many forms--artistic, musical, performative, literary, culinary,
geographical, cultural, and more--with 12 events during the week of March 19-23, 2018. All events are open to the BSU community and the
public.
Monday March 19
12:20 - 1:35 p.m.
DMF Auditorium
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the
Caribbean Archipelago -- Keynote Lecture by Tatiana
Flores, Rutgers University
1:50 - 3:05 p.m.
DMF Auditorium
A Visual Path to the Heart: Puerto Rico Before and
After the Hurricanes-- Lecture by Chris Lopez, Photographer
Tuesday March
20
8-9:15 a.m. DMF
Auditorium
Decolonizing
Bodies and Dancing Afro-Peruvian Identity -- Lecture by Dr. Luis Paredes, Director, Institutional
Diversity, BSU
9:30-10:45 a.m.
Kelly Gymnasium
Cape Cod
Capoeira – Interactive Demonstration & Class
2-3:15 p.m. DMF
Auditorium
Weaving a Neo-Heritage: Representation of the Self – Lecture by Greg Anderson Elysée, writer, filmmaker, and comic
book creator (Is’Nana, the Were Spider)
Wednesday March
21
9 - 11:30 a.m.
Burnell 132 A & B
Tour Giant Maps
of the Americas with Dr. James Hayes-Bohanan and Dr. Vernon Domingo of
Geography
12:20-1:35 p.m.
DMF Auditorium
Student Reading: Red Bike, a play by Caridad
Svich -- Dr. Colleen Rua, Director
Thursday March
22
9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
DMF Auditorium
Write for
Change – Lecture by Louis M. Bernieri the Director of Bread Loaf
11 a.m. - 12:15
p.m. DMF Auditorium
Argentine
and Cuban Flamenco Showcase – Eve and Antonio Costarelli
12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
DMF Auditorium
The Alchemy of
Creative Resistance – Lecture by La Vaughn Belle, Visual Artist
2-3:15 p.m. DMF Auditorium
Undergraduate
Research Showcase: Presentations for Caribbean Studies Association Conference,
Havana, Cuba
Friday March 23
11:15 a.m. –
12:05 p.m. RCC201
To Eat or Not
to Eat: Food, Race, and the Politics of Progress in 19th Century Brazil -- Lecture by Dr. Serena Rivera, Global Languages and Literature,
BSU
Presented by the Latin American & Caribbean
Studies Program. For more information, please contact LACS Coordinator Dr.
Allyson Ferrante: aferrante@bridgew.edu or 508-531-2440.