As part of its Spring 2026 cycle of Caribbean Conferences—Conferencias Caribeñas 38—the Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP) invites the academic community and the general public to the lecture “Del mosto al aluvión en el archivo caribeño” [From Must to Alluvium in the Caribbean Archive] by Áurea María Sotomayor (writer and Professor Emerita, UPR-RP) on Thursday, February 26, 2026, at 1:00pm (AST) in Room 238 of the Ramón Emeterio Betances Building (REB 238), School of Social Sciences, UPR-RP. The commentator will be Eugenio Santiago Valentín (School of Natural Sciences, UPR-RP).
Description: “Beyond the pristine blue sea that surrounds our coasts, in this talk I intend to examine opaque waters, swamps, mangroves, and river mouths where poor and marginalized populations originally settled as a turning point in an entire poetic-literary, legal, and environmental landscape. To this end, I will discuss Litoral, reseña de una vida inútil (1949), by Luis Palés Matos; The Alien (1964), by U.S. writer and photographer William Rosskam; and Silt (2019), by poet and activist Aurora Levins Morales.” –Áurea María Sotomayor
This event will be streamed live via the Caribbean Studies Institute’s YouTube channel (Youtube del IEC).
For more information, please write to iec.ics@upr.edu or call 787-764-0000 ext. 87739.
As part of its Spring 2026 cycle of Caribbean Conferences—Conferencias Caribeñas 38—the Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (UPR-RP) invites the academic community and the general public to the lecture “Del mosto al aluvión en el archivo caribeño” [From Must to Alluvium in the Caribbean Archive] by Áurea María Sotomayor