Past Events

Afro-Dominican Music: Racializing the Caribbean (Workshop)

Information: Wednesday, February 14, 2024; 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM; Workshop: Livingston Coffee House (LSC), Concert/Panel-New Brunswick Performing Arts Center; Event Short Description
DAY 1: Workshop WORKSHOP: Afro Dominican Music: Percussion Workshop with La Gran Mawon Wednesday, February 14 | 5:30-7:00 PM Livingston Coffee House (LSC) RSVP at GetInvolved! Join us for an Afro Dominican Music percussion workshop with Mitiko Mawon and members of the award-winning ensemble La Gran Mawon (The Big Maroon), an artist collective based in the Dominican Republic. Through their research and performance, the group explores Afro-Taino musical roots of the Caribbean Island of Kiskeya-Ayiti (comprised of Haiti and Dominican Republic) to recreate them in a respectful manner, while updating them with modern influences from hip-hop, reggae, rock, and ska.

Information: Thursday, January 25, 2024; 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM; Zoom; Event Short Description
Join us Thursday, January 25th, 2024 at 4:30pm for a talk by Lara Putnam- "Sexual Violence and Scholarly Silence: Questions from Early 20th Century Limón, Costa Rica" ONLINE ONLY See flyer below for more details.

Information: Thursday, November 9, 2023; 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM; Academic Building: 15 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ, 08901; Event Short Description
EL MONTE: Narratives, Aesthetics, and Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean On the 70th anniversary of the publication of El Monte (1954) by Cuban author and ethnologist Lydia Cabrera, Rutgers University, Baruch College (CUNY), and the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami, invite scholars, graduate students, and social and religious activists to discuss pressing issues around Afrodiasporic spirituality and ethnomedicinal technologies in the cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean. Often taken as a reference text for those initiated into Santeria and other spiritual traditions, El Monte has become not a book but a guiding concept or code to read

Information: Friday, October 27, 2023; 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM; Livingston Student Center; Event Short Description
This is is a one-day interdisciplinary symposium on the future of immigration detention.

Information: Thursday, October 5, 2023; 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM; LOCATION TBD; Event Short Description
As the most recent spectacle of state violence surrounding the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has demonstrated, anti-Blackness remains deeply entrenched in the architecture of urban governance in the United States. More importantly, the ensuing national and global dissemination of protests against state violence—to distant places such as Dakar and Berlin, demonstrate that the dialectical relationship between anti-Blackness and the Black radical tradition remains globally resonant. Histories of state violence across the Americas (including Brazil, the United States, Guayna, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Haiti and Jamaica) prove to be apt case studies to examine the articulations of racial capitalism and

Information: Friday, September 22, 2023; 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM; West Academic Building Rm. 6050 & Virtual; Event Short Description
This event was born out of the collaboration between Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies (RAICCS) and the Fine Arts Program of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. The tour will be lead by the program director, María del Mar Caragol Rivera, and ICP’s art collection registrar, Laura Quiñones Navarro, who will display and discuss artifacts and sources illuminating Puerto Rico’s slaveholding, slavetrafficking, and anti-black past, as well as its connection to the rest of the Atlantic world. This event aims to showcase the richness, depth, and cultural importance of Afro-Puerto Rican Culture and History to highlight the importance of

Information: Wednesday, April 19, 2023; 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM; Zoom; Event Short Description
2:00 PM- 4:00 PM Over the last few years, the oil conglomerate ExxonMobil has established a foothold in the Caribbean nation of Guyana, positioning the country to become one of its largest single producers of oil. These developments in Guyana have impacted the environment, racial tensions, food prices, Indigenous land rights, fishing and wildlife, and quality of life in the country. Red Thread, a multi-racial women’s organization in Guyana, has been one critical node in the struggle to hold ExxonMobil accountable. This event brings together activists from Red Thread and scholars of the Caribbean to discuss the impact of oil

Information: Wednesday, April 12, 2023; 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM; Time and Location TBD; Event Short Description
In Toward Camden , Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. She revisits lost and empty houses—her family's house, the Walt Whitman House, and the landscape of a vacant lot. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics of fragment and ruin; her writing juts against idioms of redevelopment. She resists narratives of the city that are inextricable from crime and decline and witnesses everyday lives

Information: Tuesday, April 4, 2023; 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM; Mabel Smith Douglass Room, Douglass Library; Event Short Description
There will be a reception in honor of the artist from 5:00 – 5:30 pm. The lecture will begin at 5:30 pm.

Information: Wednesday, March 22, 2023; 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM; Murray Hall room 302; Event Short Description
On Wednesday, March 22 nd at 4:30 pm join us for a reading by Alexis Pauline Gumbs , followed by comments from Ph.D. candidates Ashley Codner and JP Sloan (English Department, Rutgers NB) Time: 4:30 pm Location: Murray Hall room 302