MACLAS
Today I presented at the Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies 30th conference, which was held at the College of William and Mary. I joined three other undergraduate students from various other colleges to speak on a panel titled “Representing the Caribbean: Cultural Memory and (Trans)national Flows”. Other students presented on the politics of the Dominican Republic, Modern-Day Slavery in the Dominican Republic, and the effects of magical realism in “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz.
I presented an essay I wrote in my Urban Images course titled “Stone Crazy Prophets: Como el Nuyorican Poet’s Society creo espacio publico con un microfono”. The presentation outlined my paper, describing Rosenthal’s views of public space and how nuyoricans used a modern interpretation of public space to make their narrative voice heard. Through modern technology such as YouTube and television shows, poets have publicized opinions that were previously unknown.