Oral Presentation Session

Reviewed by: Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

(3-0040) The Disenchanted Island: Crisis, Debt, and Other Recent Manifestations of Colonialism in Puerto Rico

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizer(s)

• Ismael Garcia-Colon

  Associate Professor
  College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, CUNY

• Hilda Llorens

  Asssistant Professor
  University of Rhode Island

Chair(s)

• Isar Godreau

  University of Puerto Rico at Cayey

Presenter(s)

• Rima Brusi

  Lehman College, CUNY

• Lisa Figueroa-Jahn

  CUNY, Graduate Center

• Ismael Garcia-Colon

  Associate Professor
  College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, CUNY

• Carlos Garcia-Quijano

  University of Rhode Island

• Isar Godreau

  University of Puerto Rico at Cayey

• Sarah Molinari

  Graduate Student
  CUNY, Graduate Center

Discussant(s)

• Hilda Llorens

  Asssistant Professor
  University of Rhode Island

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

  Enduring Migration in Times of Crisis: Contemporary Puerto Rican Migrant Farmworkers
• 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM

  Uncertain Futures: Zika Outbreak and Responsibilization in Times of Crisis.
• 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

  Contested Debt, Popular Protest and the Question of Sovereignty During Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis
• 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

  Coastal livelihoods as alternative models: What can coastal resource-dependent communities teach us about surviving and thriving in troubled times?
• 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

  The University of Puerto Rico Under Siege: Dismantling Public Education in a US Colony
• 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

  Discussion