The University of Michigan - University of Puerto Rico Annual Symposium is a professional development workshop for educators in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The objective of this year's symposium is to incorporate the concepts of race, ethnicity, nationalism, political tension, questions of identity, and globalization into academic curriculum and teaching models at the university and K-12 school level. Graduate students and faculty from both institutions will present pedagogical talks related to their research and propose ways to incorporate that research into K-12 school classrooms.

This event takes place on the University of Puerto Rico's Rio Piedras Campus. The event will be live-streamed to an international audience.

Jueves 7 de marzo – Thursday, March 7, 2019


9:00 am – Bienvenida - Welcome

9:30 am – Keynote 1: Joseph Carroll-Miranda, Profesor del Departamento de Estudios Graduados de Educación, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Alasuwada: Más allá de raza, étnias, nacionalismos y fronteras/ Alasuwada: Beyond Race, Ethnicity, Nationalisms and Borders

11:00 am – 12:00 pm Panel 1: Narración del pasado y construcción de memoria - Narrating the Past and the Construction of Memory

Timnet Gedar, African Studies Center, University of Michigan: Pan-Africanism and the Abyssinian Crisis: Exploring Solidarity through Historical Print Media

José M. Encarnación Martínez, Programa Graduado de Historia, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Deporte, nacionalismo y puertorriqueñidad: Nociones políticas de la soberanía deportiva puertorriqueña

Monte-Angel Richardson, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan: Political Violence and Historical Narratives


1:30 – 3:00 pm Panel 2: Religiosidad e identidad a través de las fronteras - Religiosity and Identity across Boundaries

Janaki Phillips, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan: Haunted Houses and the Colonial Experience in India

Mekarem Eijamal, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan: “Beyond One Hand”: Copts, Rhetoric, and Erasure in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Wilmarie Rivera Pérez, Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Las religiones afrocaribeñas y el diálogo interreligioso en la clase de Estudios Sociales

Ahmed Mitchie, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan: From Colonial divide et impera to the War on Terror: A Case Study on the Racialized Muslim Subject in the Moroccan Hirak al-Rif

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Viernes 8 de marzo / Friday, March 8, 2019

9:00 am – Bienvenida - Welcome

9:30 am – Keynote Speech: Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, Associate Professor of Spanish and American Culture, University of Michigan: The Queer Drag of Race and the Performance of Not Looking Puerto Rican: Javier Cardona’s You Don’t Look Like… (1996)

11:00 am – 12:30 pm Panel 3: Identidad, educación y transnacionalismo - Identity, Education, and Transnationalism

Mai Ze Vang, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan: The Uncivilized and Thailand’s New Education Bill

Coral Padilla Matos, Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Afrodescendencia y niñez: Reivindicando identidad desde la música

Wilfredo R. Santiago Hernández, Departamento de Inglés, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: This Came From the Gut, From the Blood, From the Soul: Puerto Rican and Filipino Representations in Hip Hop

Miranda García, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan: Identity in Contemporary Advertising: A Critical Reading


1:30 – 2:30 pm Panel 4: Migración, transnacionalismo y la producción de conocimiento - Migration, Transnationalism, and the Production of Knowledge
Marisol Fila, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan: Transnational Partnership and a Collaborative Production of Knowledge: Afrodescendants in Argentina

Glorimarie Peña Alicea, Programa Graduado de Historia, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras: Migración de retorno y nociones de hogar en las memorias de los migrantes dominicanos y el merengue

Cheryl Yin, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan: Where is “Home” for Cambodian-Americans Deportees?: Home, Identity, and Residency Status


2:30 – 3:30 pm Taller - Workshop
Darin Stockdill, School of Education, University of Michigan: Instructional Design: Problem-posing teaching and concept development