Lecture: Dr. Yazmín M. Crespo Claudio, "Caribbean Imaginar[ies]: Spatial Practices in Puerto Rico."
Monday, September 9, 5:30pm
1300 A+DS
Dr. Yazmín M. Crespo Claudio joins us for a lecture, followed by a conversation with Visiting Assistant Professor Zehra Ahmed.
El ser y bregar puertorriqueño dentro y fuera del archipiélago. Caribbean imaginar[ies]: spatial practices in Puerto Rico introduce counter-narratives as critical architectural, cultural, and spatial practices, striving for narratives of democratic pedagogy that oppose official normative views and practices of instruction and measurement. It is a praxis grounded in Freire's perspectives, but which is extended through a dialogue with Ivan Illich, Édouard Glissant, Bell Hooks, Arcadio Díaz Quiñones, Mujer Intégrate Ahora, Luz Marie Rodríguez, Yara Maite Colón, and a community of thinkers and makers from the archipiélago de Puerto Rico. The archipelago is a familiar setting for the writer and poet Édouard Glissant, where the assemblage and its meanings are simultaneously singular and manifold. The presentation represents a form of archipelagic thinking in action; a cultural formation of time-space practices.