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Registration Now Open: LACUNY Institute 2020/2011
"Ending the Library Stereotype: Non-traditional Practices for the 21st-century."
Virtually, on Wednesday, May 5th and Thursday, May 6th, 2021
Register now:
https://lacuny.org/event-4217159This year we are waving the standard registration fee, lowering the registration fee to $5.00.
Proceeds from this year's registration fee will support the LACUNY Institute Mutual Aid Network, which you can learn more about at the following link at
https://lacuny.org/news/9040566If you are having technical difficulties with the registration process or undergoing financial hardship due to COVID-19, please contact
MarkAaron.Polger@csi.cuny.eduThis year's keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Lorgia García Peña, the Roy G. Clouse Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of History and Literature at Harvard University.
Dr. García Peña is a first generation Dominican Latinx Studies scholar from Trenton, NJ. She studies blackness, colonialism and diaspora with a special focus on dominicanidades.
You can read her biographical sketch at the following link:
https://2021lacunyinst.commons.gc.cuny.edu/9-2/keynote-speaker/You can also read one of Dr. García Peńa's most recent interviews at the following link:
https://esendom.com/interviews/2020/1/21/the-borders-of-dominicanidadinterview-with-lorgia-garcia-peaIf you have questions, please contact us Prof. Nelson Santana, LACUNY Institute 2020/2021 Chair, at
nelson.santana02@bcc.cuny.edu
Thank you,
LACUNY Institute 2020/2021 Planning Committee
https://2021lacunyinst.commons.gc.cuny.edu------------------------------
Linda Miles
Assistant Professor - Librarian
Hostos Community College
lmiles.librarian@gmail.com------------------------------