As part of its 35th cycle of Caribbean Conferences—Conferencias Caribeñas 35—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 “El ensayo cimarrón en tiempos convulsos: resistencia y convivencia en el Caribe y más allá” [The Maroon Essay in Troubled Times: Resistance and Coexistence in the Caribbean and Beyond] by Juan Valdez (Stanford University). The commentator will be Dr. Carmen Centeño Añeses (UPR-Bayamón).
This event will take place on Thursday, March 27, 2025, at 1:00pm (AST) in Room 238 of the Ramón Emeterio Betances Building (REB 238), School of Social Sciences, UPR-RP.
Description: This presentation is based on an essay from his recent book Sendas extraviadas: ensayos para vivir en el mundo que nos queda [Lost Paths: Essays on living in the world that we have left], which offers a profound exploration of the Caribbean and its complexities, promising to open new perspectives on our history and culture.
Víctor Barrera Enderle writes, Sendas extraviadas seeks “…a balance between despair and hope, on a planet plagued by catastrophes and crises. As a model of action, it proposes four paths to the concretization of its writing: the politics of mistrust, the wild gaze, conscious delirium, and communion with nature.
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 to the director, Dr. Don E. Walicek, at don.walicek@urp.edu or call 787-763-2943 ext. 87737.
As part of its 35th cycle of Caribbean Conferences—Conferencias Caribeñas 35—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 “El ensayo cimarrón en tiempos convulsos: resistencia y convivencia en el Caribe y más allá” [The Maroon Essay in Troubled Times:
