CENTRO X Cumbre - Sites of Black Memory Symposium (Virtual)
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CENTRO X Cumbre - Sites of Black Memory Symposium (Virtual)

Cumbre Afro is coming to New York for the first time and will be ending in East Harlem, nestled between CENTRO & The Schomburg.

By Center for Puerto Rican Studies

Date and time

March 21 · 6:30am - March 22 · 4:30pm PDT

Location

Online

Agenda

March 22, 2025
March 21, 2025

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Diasporic Memory Keepers: The Labor of Archiving & Counter Archival Practices


Start CENTRO x Cumbre with a timely panel featuring several stewards of archives responsible for maintaining black historical artifacts during a time where DEI initiatives and ethnic studies institut...

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

Lieu de Mémoire: Recalling and Responding: Ancestral Memory & Living History


Sites of memory of the Black Diaspora are all over. From the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) in Harlem to the Puerto Rican Organization for the Performing Arts (PROPA) ...

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

Black Diasporic Photography, Altaring, & Spirit Practices


After a morning filled with insightful and thought provoking dialogues on the power and responsibility of archiving and maintaining our living history, join us for lunch and a conversation between ou...

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

New Directions: Hemispheric Afro-Latine Studies - Jiménez Román Fellowship


Miriam Jiménez Román was an Afro-Puerto Rican scholar, activist, and author on Afro-Latine culture. Her legacy is forever enshrined at the Latinx Project at NYU under the Miriam Jiménez Román Fellows...

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Cafecito con… Mayra Santos Febres: La Otra Julia


Mayra Santos-Febres is a Puerto Rican author, poet, novelist, professor of literature, essayist, and literary critic and author of children's books. Her work focuses on themes of race, diaspora ident...

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 day 10 hours

Cumbre Afro is coming to New York for the first time and will be ending in East Harlem, nestled between two prominent archives, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO) and the NYPL's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This year's theme for Cumbre Afro, Sites of Black Memory: Our Ancestors, Archives, and Arts, dedicated to Arturo Schomburg and produced in collaboration with PR-AFRO at UPR, is an opportunity to celebrate afrolatinidad memory in the age of divisiveness; a reminder of our shared experiences as Black Diasporic peoples. By recognizing the privilege of academics in universities and non-profit organizations, the Afro Summit makes resources available to communities to form alliances, establish networks, and share historically invisibilized and marginalized experiences.