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Please note that the film is in Spanish, with English subtitles.<\/p>\n
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This event is a follow-up to the one held in Spring 2025, where Emilio Vargas presented his book manuscript. We are delighted to now celebrate the publication of his book, which continues and deepens the conversations that began in the Spring.<\/p>\n
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Thursday, December 8 2022 Tuesday, November 29 2022 Tuesday, November 15 2022 Monday, October 17, 2022 Wednesday, September 21, 2022 *In accordance with<\/span><\/strong> Tri<\/span>nity<\/span> College COVID protocols for public events, everyone is required to show proof of vaccination and photo ID at the door, and must wear a face mask at all times while inside the venue. Trinity IDs are accepted as proof of vaccination status<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Please send all questions to: Ashley.Hamelin@trincoll.edu<\/a><\/p>\n Cuba: \u201cThey Are We\u201d<\/strong> Dominican Republic: \u201cStateless\u201d<\/strong> Haiti: \u201cThe Man by the Shore\u201d<\/strong> Colombia: \u201cBad Lucky Goat\u201d Costa Rica: \u201cCaribe\u201d Honduras \u201cGarifuna in Peril\u201d <\/p>\n Media Contacts: Contacto de Medios:<\/p>\n Ana Alfaro, Central America United Committee: 860-881-6088; or analehtvshow@gmail.com September 1, 2021<\/p>\n WHAT\/QUE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n 15 September 1821- 15 September 2021<\/p>\n Celebrations Begin on September 3, 2021, with Flag-Raising at State Capitol<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n El Comite\u0301 Centroame\u0301rica Unidad de Hartford, Connecticut, EE. UU.\/Central America United Committee commemorates this year\u2019s Central American Bicentennial of Independence with the flag- raising of each country of Central America. Flag-raising will be held at the State Capitol in Hartford at 12Noon. The five countries are: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua y Costa Rica.<\/p>\n El 15 de septiembre de este an\u0303o los cinco pai\u0301ses conocidos hoy como Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua y Costa Rica conmemoran 200 an\u0303os de su Independencia poli\u0301tica del antiguo re\u0301gimen colonialista impuesto por los espan\u0303oles en esa regio\u0301n i\u0301stmica desde comienzos del siglo XVI. El 15 de septiembre de 1821, Jose\u0301 Cecilio del Valle, gran jurista e intelectual, nacido en Honduras y radicado en la capital de Guatemala, habiendo redactado la Declaracio\u0301n de Independencia, motivado por movimientos y luchas sangrientas asumidas por miles de pobladores en todas las Ame\u0301ricas, y en particular en Mexico, dio a conocer pu\u0301blicamente el famoso documento independentista.<\/p>\n En este an\u0303o del 2021 los centroamericanos conmemoran su Bicentenario en sus cinco pai\u0301ses, 200 an\u0303os de su Independencia del colonialismo y de su soberani\u0301a poli\u0301tica ante el resto de las naciones del mundo.<\/p>\n WHERE\/DONDE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The flag-raising of each country will be held at the State Capitol Building, 210 Capitol Avenue, WHEN\/CUANDO:<\/strong><\/p>\n The flag- raising schedule and respective flag is as follows:<\/p>\n The community is invited to take time from their schedule to honor each country\u2019s flag at the State Capitol. Take photos and share on Social Media.<\/p>\n Background\/Historia:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Central America United Committee is seeking to raise awareness about the rich culture of five countries\u2014Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica\u2014and highlight successful and painful stories about Central American people who migrated to the United States. Its motto is, \u201cFive nations one heart.\u201d<\/p>\n Partners\/Asociados:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Central America United Committee and Trinity\u2019s Center for Caribbean Studies organized this celebration, which is co-sponsored with the Trinity College History Department.<\/p>\n The Center for Caribbean Studies, led by its co-directors, Professor of History and International Studies Dario A. Euraque and Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology Eric Galm, explores and celebrates the distinctive Caribbean character of the city of Hartford and the influence of Caribbean civilization on contemporary cultures around the world, including Central America\u2019s historical and contemporary relations with the Island Caribbean. It conducts collaborative research and hosts cultural events and exchanges that build upon the region\u2019s transnational connections while helping Trinity students develop as engaged global citizens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The discussion will be hosted by Prof. Emeritus Leslie Desmangles This lecture series presents work in progress of a diverse group of scholars at Trinity College who approach the notion of Decoloniality from various disciplines, from philosophy to arts to history.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tue 3\/30. Garth Myers<\/strong>, Director of the Urban Studies Program, and the Center for Global and Urban Engagement, Trinity College, \u201cEdouard Glissant and ‘the Virus of Coloniality.\u201d<\/p>\n Thu 4\/1 Prof. Maurice Wade<\/strong>, Philosophy Department, \u201cThe Decolonial Thought of Lloyd Algernon Best.\u201d<\/p>\n Tue 4\/6 Prof. Janet Bauer<\/strong>, International Studies, Trinity College, \u201cDecolonizing Caribbean Feminism\u2014in Dialogue with Muslim Women.\u201d<\/p>\n Thu 4\/8 Prof. Amanda Guzman<\/strong>, Ann Plato Fellow in Anthropology, Trinity College, Tue 4\/13 Prof. Eric Galm<\/strong>, Music Department, Trinity College, \u201cProcessions of Coloniality: The Central African\/Afro-Brazilian Congado and its perseverance.\u201d<\/p>\n Tue 4\/22 Prof. Dario A. Euraque<\/strong>, History Department, Trinity College, \u201cThe Praxis of Decolonialization and Decoloniality in Historical Context: Central America,\u201d<\/p>\n Thu 4\/27 Dr. Christina Bleyer<\/strong>, \u201cToward a Decolonial Archival Praxis.\u201d Dr. Bleyer is Director of Special Collections and Archives, Watkinson Library, Trinity College.<\/p>\n The series assumes a historicized sense of \u201ccolonialism\u201d and typology of colonialism suggested by Jurgen Osterhammel\u2019s classic book, Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (Osterhammel 1997) That is, it addresses colonialism in its \u201cmodern sense\u201d and, in particular, the kind(s) of colonialism(s) in the Americas first initiated by Europeans, beginning with the voyages of Columbus, in the 1490s, with a specific focus here on the Grand Caribbean.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n They consider colonialism to be:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cA relationship of domination between an indigenous (or forcibly imported) majority and a minority of foreign invaders. The fundamental decisions affecting the lives of the colonized people are made and implemented by the colonial rulers in pursuit of interests that are often defined in a distant metropolis. Rejecting cultural compromises with the colonized population, the colonizers are convinced of their own superiority.\u201d (Osterhammel 1997, p. 15).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Colonialism is, of course, created and sustained by coercion and outright violence, violence of often horrific proportions. Yet coercion and violence are not colonialism\u2019s only sources of sustenance. Colonialism is also sustained by what current decolonial thinkers refer to as coloniality. And, coloniality persists even when colonialism(s) have ended. A politically independent former colony therefore does not become decolonial simply by virtue of that independence. The collective autonomy that is the aim of anti-colonial struggle, and for which political independence is valued, is incomplete if coloniality is unchallenged, and if different typologies and trajectories of colonialism are homogenized into the \u2018epistemic murk\u2019 of a single kind. Neither coloniality nor decoloniality should be understood in a \u201cone size fits all\u201d fashion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n As Nelson Maldonado-Torres explains:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cColonialism denotes a political and economic relation in which the sovereignty of a nation or a people rests on the power of another nation, which makes such a nation an empire. Coloniality, instead refers to long-standing patterns of power that emerged as a result of colonialism, but that define culture, labor, inter-subjective relations, and knowledge production well beyond the strict limits of colonial administrations. Thus, coloniality survives colonialism. It is maintained alive in books, in the criteria for academic performance, in cultural patterns, in common sense, in the self-images of peoples, in aspirations of self, and so many other aspects of our modern experience.\u201d (Maldonado-Torres 2007, p. 243, emphasis added)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Whatever else coloniality might be, it is clearly an epistemic enterprise that sustains colonialism, and that continues live beyond formal independence, by dominating how colonized and formerly colonized peoples collectively understand themselves, their past(s), their present(s), their future(s), and their aspirations. The lectures in this series illuminate the nature of epistemic coloniality (theory) and to discuss and exhibit means by which it can be challenged (praxis to practice).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n \u201cA Trip to The Americas: Resistance, Spirituality and the Arts.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> \u201cThe Haitian Immigrant Experience.\u201d <\/em><\/strong> “Images of Disaster: A Case Study In Puerto Rico.\u201d <\/em><\/strong> \u201cForgotten Networks of Power: The Catalan Presence in Havana and other Ports of the Caribbean, 1800-1950.”<\/em><\/strong> \u201cCon los brazos abiertos? The violence of Deportee \u2018Reception\u2019 in Honduras.\u201d <\/em> 13th Annual Samba Fest<\/strong><\/p>\n The 13th Annual edition of this Central Connecticut festival will feature music, dance, and food from Brazil and the Caribbean. Scheduled artists include Brazilian virtuoso 7-string guitarist Yamand\u00fa Costa, Afro-Brazilian dancer G\u2019Leu (Gleide) Cambria, Capoeira and Samba dance with Ginga Brasileira, The Trinity Samba Ensemble, Trinity Steel, crafts and activities by Trinity College Student organizations, a mobile library provided by the Hartford Public Library, and much more! <\/p>\n * These events were canceled due to the closing of the college in March 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College<\/strong>
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\nMaria Auxiliadora Brice\u00f1o:<\/strong> “Profile of Hispanic-owned Family<\/strong> Businesses in Hartford: Research Project in Progress”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
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\nChristina Bleyer and Amanda Matava:<\/strong>“Post-Custodial Archiving in Trinidad and<\/em>
\nTobago: Digitizing the Lloyd Best Archive”<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nAmelia Frank-Vitale: \u201cMigrant Caravans in Mexico\u201d
\n<\/em><\/strong>In this talk, I discuss the history and trajectory of migrant caravans in Mexico, starting from the first, small gathering in 2011 through to the massive caravan of 2018 that made international headlines and drew the ire of then President Donald Trump. Drawing from ethnographic research on Central American transit migration conducted over the last decade, I define the caravan as a unique mix of accompaniment and protest and place it within the larger context of creative strategies of mobility that emerge as people adapt to the changing landscape of migration enforcement.<\/p>\n
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\nVanessa Castaneda:\u201cReconceptualizing Brazil\u2019s Baianas de Acaraj\u00e9\u201d<\/em><\/strong>
\n“Baianas de acaraj\u00e9 are often referred to as the \u201cpostcards of Brazil.\u201d These predominantly older, working-class Afro-Brazilian women are street vendors in Salvador, Brazil that sell typical regional foods with culinary origins in West Africa. They exist as central icons of regional and national identity within the Brazilian cultural imaginary and as such, have been rendered as apolitical stewards of an authentic past. Using interdisciplinary methodologies, including community-based ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, Dr. Casta\u00f1eda reconceptualizes the baianas as political agents of Black feminism for self and collective liberation.<\/p>\n
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\nKarla Moncada<\/strong> :\u201cUndocumented Immigrant Children from Central America and U.S. Law\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nSpring 2022 Events<\/h2>\n
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<\/h3>\nThe Spring 2022 Caribbean Film Festival<\/h3>\n
Please join us Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. in Mather Hall Wean Terrace room B\/C to view the films. Stay after the films to engage in a brief discussion with the CCS
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\nTuesday, February 8th<\/sup>\u00a0@ 7:00p.m
\n<\/strong>Running time: \u00a01hr. 19 min.
\n<\/strong>Nearly 200 years after a family was split by the transatlantic slave trade, they were, remarkably reunited.
\nIn Central Cuba, proud members of the Ganga-Longoba, a small Afro-Cuban ethnic group, have kept their unique heritage alive. Incredibly, through decades of brutal enslavement, independence wars, and then the denying of all religions after the revolution, they have retained a collection of distinct songs and dances that one of their ancestors brought from Africa as a slave. Each December 17th they still perform them at the San Lazaro ceremony.\u00a0“They Are We” tells the story of the Ganga-Longoba and of the village their ancestor called home.\u00a0It is the story of how, just very occasionally, a family separated by the slave trade can reunite for the good of all.<\/p>\n
\nTuesday, February 15th<\/sup>\u00a0@7:00 p.m.
\n<\/strong>Running time: 1hr 22min.
\n<\/strong>Director Mich\u00e8le Stephenson\u2019s new documentary follows families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent, uncovering the complex history and present-day politics of Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the grassroots electoral campaign of a young attorney named Rosa Iris.<\/p>\n
\nTuesday, February 22nd\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0@7:00 p.m.
\n<\/strong>Running Time: 1hr 47min.
\n<\/strong>A Small country town in Papa Doc\u2019s Haiti. A period of bloody dictatorship during which entire families are wiped out, massacred, victims of an arbitrary regime. 8-year-old Sarah\u2019s parents are forced to flee Haiti Under Duvalier. Sarah\u2019s father, a discredited officer, entrusts Sarah and her two sisters to their grandmother. For the time being secure from the violent and impulsive Janvier, who is bent on Revenge and dedicated to the regime, Sarah creates a world of her own. A world full of fantasy, mystery and rituals. Thirty years later, Sarah\u2019s memories of these years are haunted by nightmares which recall a man by the shore that put an end to her childhood.\u00a0Special Host: Prof. Leslie Desmangles.<\/strong> Dr. Desmangles graduated from Eastern University in 1964 with a B.A. in Music, from Palmer Seminary in Philadelphia with an M. Div. in Theology, and from Temple University in 1975 with a Ph.D. in Anthropology of Religion, specializing in Caribbean and African Studies. He has taught at Ohio Wesleyan University from 1969-1976, at De Paul University from 1976-1978, and at Trinity since<\/span>\u00a01978.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong> Tuesday, March 1st<\/sup> @7:00 p.m.
\n<\/strong>Running Time: 1hr 16min<\/strong>
\nAfter accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father’s truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years, embark on a journey of reconciliation.\u00a0The film will be introduced by Prof. Sharika Crawford, <\/span><\/strong>U.S. Naval Academy and a historian of Caribbean Colombia. She is the author of significant historical scholarship on the region, and the author of,<\/span>The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making<\/i><\/span>(University of North Carolina Press, 2020).<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Tuesday, March 8th, \u00a0@7:00 p.m.
\n<\/strong>Running Time:1hr 30min<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Passion: of people for the land and sea, of corporations for riches, and of men and women for each other. Vicente and Abigail run a banana plantation in Limon Province, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Abigail’s half-sister Irene, about whom Abigail knew nothing, comes to introduce herself. She is 21 and beautiful. Meanwhile, banana prices fall, threatening the plantation’s finances. An oil company works with the government to get off-shore drilling rights, over local objection. Vicente is at the center of each cross-current. Will he fall for Irene, can he save the plantation, will he sell out to corporate offers? What of the coast: can its beauty be saved?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Tuesday, March 15 @7:00 p.m.
\n<\/strong>Running Time:\u00a0 1hr 39min
\n<\/strong>A Garifuna language teacher, Ricardo, struggles to preserve his culture by building a language school back in his home village in Honduras, Central America. A business venture with his brother designed to raise money for the school’s construction becomes complicated by the expansion plans of a nearby tourist resort. Historical parallels are invoked as Ricardo’s son rehearses and performs a stage play about the Garifuna people’s last stand against the British on the island St. Vincent over 200 years ago. With debut performances by nearly the entire cast of Honduran and Belizean actors, ‘Garifuna in Peril’ makes its own history as the first feature film primarily in Garifuna, a language proclaimed by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Special Host: Professor Dario A. Euraque. <\/strong>Dr. Euraque, a historian of Honduras, and a specialist on its Caribbean past, has taught at Trinity College since 1990.<\/p>\nFall 2021 Events<\/h2>\n
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Central American Bicentennial Celebration of Independence<\/h2>\n
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Spring 2021 Virtual Events<\/h2>\n
Thursday, April 29th at 5:30 p.m.
\nThe Center for Caribbean Studies invites you to join a virtual discussion of Aime Cesaire\u2019s classic, Discourse on Colonialism<\/i> (1952).<\/h3>\n
\nTo view the discussion, Click here<\/a><\/p>\nThe Center for Caribbean Studies\u00a0Decoloniality Series
\nMarch 30th<\/sup> to April 22, 2021 Via Zoom<\/h3>\n
\n& Prof. Pablo Delano<\/strong>, Studio Arts, Trinity College, \u201cShifting the Gaze of Puerto Rican Representation: the Decolonizing Work of Pablo Delano’s Museum of the Old Colony.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFebruary 25, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nRev. John Selders, Assistant Dean of Students, Trinity College.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nSelders will report on his research last summer in Trinidad & Tobago and Bahia, Brazil on how the music, art, and religion of locals and descendants from the African Diaspora in these countries have served struggles for human rights and political empowerment. Selders and his wife Pamela are co-founders of \u201cMoral Monday CT,\u201d a grassroots organization which gathers voices in the struggle for freedom and justice for black and brown people. They organize at the nexus of Movement for Black Lives and broad base social justice\/civil rights movement of the last half-century.
\n7-9pm, Dangremond Room.<\/p>\nMarch 3, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nMarie-Celie Agnant, a celebrated Montreal-based Haitian author. Her two novels, La dot de Sara (1995) and Le Livre d\u2019Emma (2001) highlight issues of the immigrant experience: exile, alienation, bicultural identities, hybridity, and migrant memory. Agnant\u2019s visit to Trinity is co-sponsored with a partnership with the exhibition \u201cCreating Art Dangerously: Art and Revolution\u201d at The Art Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University. She will be introduced by Leslie Desmangles, Professor of Religious Studies and International Studies, Emeritus, Trinity College.
\n12:15pm, Dangremond Rooom.<\/p>\n*March 24, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nTamara Cedr\u00e9, California State University, San Bernardino.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThis talk engages the depiction of disaster in vulnerable communities and posits questions about photography’s ideological currency. We will discuss depictions by local and outsider photographers while generating a discussion of best practices\u2013beginning with a case study in Puerto Rico but also opening up the conversation to other affected areas.
\n12:15pm, Dangremond Room.<\/p>\n*March 26, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nProfessor Thomas C. Harrington of the Department of Language and Culture Studies, Trinity College.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThe Americas have hosted many immigrants since the beginning of colonialism in the XVI. Catalan migration to the Americas has suffered an endemic neglect of these highly consequential migrations. This stems from the inability of most contemporary scholars, people generally trained to perceive human flows in statist terms, to grasp just how different the Catalan experience in the Americas was from that of other Iberian migrants to the new world, including in the Caribbean. Prof. Harrington will report on his research at the extraordinary archives at the Casal Catal\u00e0 in Havana, Cuba. These documents pertain to the 19th and early 20th century interactions between the Catalan communities of Cuba and those in New Orleans and other port cities in the Gulf of Mexico and the US South, such as Galveston, Tampa, Tampico, Savannah and Charleston.
\n12:15pm.<\/p>\n*April 2, 2020<\/h3>\n
\nAmelia Frank-Vitale, PhD student, University of Michigan. <\/strong>
\nFrank-Vitale has research the after lives of Hondurans deported from the U.S. to San Pedro Sula, located 60 miles south of Caribbean Honduras, a transition point of illegal cocaine transshipped from Colombian through Guatemala and into Mexico and the U.S. Frank-Vitale argues that both government and NGO programs dedicated to the \u201creinsertion\u201d or \u201creintegration\u201d of deportees in Honduras fail to curtail undocumented emigration precisely because the majority of those who migrate were never \u201cinserted\u201d or \u201cintegrated\u201d into society prior to their migration, including those recently immigrating via \u201cthe Caravans\u201d since October of 2018. Their exclusion is in fact exacerbated by their criminalization throughout the process of detention and deportation from the U.S.
\n12:15pm, Reese Room, Smith House.<\/p>\n*April 25, 2020<\/h3>\n
\n11am-6pm Trinity College Life Sciences Quad.<\/p>\nFall 2019<\/h2>\n
November 11, 2019<\/h3>\n
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\nWilliam Hardin Burnley: The Slave Master of Trinidad<\/em>
\n12:00 p.m.
\nAlumni Lounge, Mather Hall
\nRead more<\/a><\/p>\nNovember 12, 2019<\/h3>\n