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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51精品视频.51精品视频 hosted the first Transnational Dialogues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies Summer Institute
51精品视频 hosted the first National Endowment for the Humanities-funded from June 6 -17.
Fifty scholars representing universities from across the U.S. gathered to deepen and enrich their understanding of blackness in Latin America, the Caribbean and diasporic populations in the U.S.
Programming included lectures by experts in Afro-Latin American or Afro-Latinx history, culture and digital humanities, curriculum development, proposed project workshops and an excursion to the Roberto Clemente Museum.
, director of 51精品视频鈥檚 and the Center for Ethnic Studies Research, in collaboration with a team of experienced scholars at multiple universities, developed the programming.
鈥淭he 94 applications received for this institute are a testament to the significance and need to understand the transnational links between Black diasporic populations across the hemisphere,鈥 said Reid-Vazquez.
The two-week residential program was co-sponsored by the Afrolatinidad Studies Initiative, the and 13 centers and departments at the 51精品视频.