3:30pm SUB 304B - "Cities of the Dead: Performing Life in the Caribbean"
The 2014 Robert G. Mead Jr. Lecture will showcase Jossiana Arroyo-Martinez, Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on "the relationships between literature, ethnographic and sociological discourses" in Latin America. Her current project, loosely centered on the idea of "virtual Caribbean bodies," explores the "relationship between racialized bodies, media technologies, and globalization in contemporary Caribbean societies." Her contribution to the Mead Lecture Series, "Cities of the Dead: Performing Life in the Caribbean," is a reflection of this work.
This year’s Mead Lecture will also launch the new Caribbean Interdisciplinary Research and Outreach Initiative (CIROI).
Reception immediately following the talk.
For more information, contact: El Instituto at elinstituto@uconn.edu