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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-4217159
This 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/9040566
If you are having technical difficulties with the registration process or
undergoing financial hardship due to COVID-19, please contact
MarkAaron.Polger_at_csi.cuny.edu
This 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-pea
If you have questions, please contact us Prof. Nelson Santana, LACUNY
Institute 2020/2021 Chair, at nelson.santana02_at_bcc.cuny.edu
Thank you,
LACUNY Institute 2020/2021 Planning Committee
https://2021lacunyinst.commons.gc.cuny.edu
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Linda Miles
MLS, MA, PhD
lmiles.librarian_at_gmail.com
917-902-6963
http://lindamiles.wordpress.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/lindamilesnyc
@lmiles
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