Apr 9, 2026 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Levis Faculty Center (919 W Illinois St., Urbana, IL), Room 422
- Sponsor
- Department of Latina/Latino Studies
- Contact
- Department of Latina/Latino Studies
- lls-studies@illinois.edu
- Originating Calendar
- Campus Humanities Calendar
Join us for a lecture by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His lecture will explore the ways that history teaching and writing gave way to racialized tropes of Puerto Rican docility and laziness; how the state has moved to silence or erase the past through Puerto Rico’s “politics of forgetting"; and the ways these ideas are being challenged by artists and cultural producers.