“Working with Community Archives” with Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, CUNY and author of Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 9, 4:30-6:30pm
Location: African American Studies Conference Room – 650 Social Sciences Building.
Professor Figueroa-Vásquez will lead graduate students, faculty and staff interested in community archival work in a hands-on workshop organized by the Anti-Colonial Lab at UC Berkeley. Workshop participants should bring 3-5 pictures AND a copy of 1-2 documents – birth, death, census, letter, card, mail, etc. These archives could be family archives or other archives that are important to you. Please come prepared to free-write and share. Participants should also read this short piece before the workshop.
About Speaker
Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez is an Afro-Puerto Rican writer, teacher, and scholar from Hoboken, NJ whose archival and public humanities work is informed by community commitments, creative practices, and public writing (blogs, essays, podcasts). She is Professor of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies and is the Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) at CUNY Hunter. She is also an alumna of the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Ph.D. program.