Events
Yarimar is a frequent lecturer and keynote speaker at colleges, universities, and public events throughout the US and beyond. Most of her presentations center around issues of race and imperialism in the US, the politics of debt and disaster in Puerto Rico, and the importance of digital humanities and public scholarship.
December 06, 2019
Caribbean Digitial Conference
Columbia University
New York, NY
December 05, 2019
Non-Sovereign Revolutions: Thinking through Puerto Rico and Hong Kong
CUNY Graduate Center
New York, NY
December 03, 2019
Aftershocks of Disaster Book Discussion
Princeton
New Jersey
November 22, 2019
Foro: El Verano de 2019 y Futuros Alternos para Puerto Rico
Escuela de Derecho, Universidad Interamericana
San Juan, PR
November 14, 2019
Aftershocks of Disaster Book Discussion
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
November 07, 2019
American Studies Association Conference
Honolulu, HI
October 30, 2019
Guadeloupe, Martinique and Puerto Rico: Comparing Post-colonial, Non-Sovereign Trajectories in the Caribbean
Roundtable discussion with Yarimar Bonilla, Edgardo Melendez, and Audrey Celestine
NYU Institute of French Studies
October 26, 2019
Decolonizing Puerto Rican Studies: Public Scholarship & Activist Commitments in a Time of Crisis
October 25, 2019
For the Many Symposium
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
October 24, 2019
Book Talk: Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture
Chicago, IL
October 12, 2019
Discussion de Replicas del Desastre en Casa Pueblo
Adjuntas, PR
October 21, 2019
Coloniality of Disaster
NYU Seminar on Climate Change
New York, NY
October 9, 2019
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo
San Juan, PR
October 04, 2019
Making Sense of the Storm: Public Scholarship in the Wake of Disaster
Keynote Lecture for the 2019 Ford Fellows Conference
San Juan, PR
September 20-21, 2019
Plenary Panel and Special Session on Aftershocks of Disaster
Hunter College
September 18, 2019
Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón in dialogue with WNYC’s Alana Casanova Burgess
NYU Latinx Project
June 5, 2019
Caribbean Studies Association Conference
Santa Marta, Colombia
May 25, 2019
Latin American Studies Association Conference Panel
Boston, MA
May 10, 2019
Keynote Lecture for the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
York University
May 3, 2019
Presentation at Small Axe Conference: “States of Crisis: Disaster, Recovery, and Possibility in the Caribbean”
Columbia University
May 2, 2019
Keynote Lecture for the Society for the Anthropology of North America and Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology Spring Conference
Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico
April 11, 2019
The Coloniality of Disaster: Emergency and Emergence in Puerto Rico, USA
Keynote Lecture
Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Annual Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
April 4, 2019
Political Geography Plenary Lecture
American Association of Geographers annual meeting, Washington, DC
March 21, 2019
Identidades Raciales en Tiempos de Crisis
Presentación with Isar Godreau at Foro: Raza, Crisis Y Bancarrota
Universidad de Puerto Rico- Recinto de Mayaguez
March 8, 2019
Through the Whirlwind
Presentation for Sharjah Biennial 14
Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
December 7, 2018
Keynote lecture for the symposium “It Has to Come From Here: Protesting Twenty-First Century Caribbean Colonialisms” Winthrop-King Institute For Contemporary French And Francophone Studies
Florida State University
October 18, 2018
Keynote Lecture for Movements and Migrations: A Conference on the Engaged Humanities
Wake Forest University
October 15, 2018
Social Anthropology Lecture Series
Harvard University
October 11, 2018
Presentation at Human Rights Workshop
Yale Law School
October 4, 2018
Languages, Literatures and Culture Lecture Series
Seton Hall University
July 28, 2018
“The Museum of the Old Colony” y Los Imaginarios del Imperio Ayer y Hoy
Conversatorio entre Yarimar Bonilla y Pablo Delano
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico
April 28, 2018
Uncle Sam’s Empire
Presentation for: Unions and Federations in Imperial and Anti-Imperial Political Thought International Conference
Columbia University
April 19, 2018
Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria, and the Crisis of Colonialism Conference
University of Illinois-Chicago
April 04, 2018
Symposium on Race, Decolonization, and the Caribbean
Lafayette College
April 6, 2018
The Wait of Disaster: An Affective Map of Hurricane Maria
Weissman Center for Leadership Distinguished Lecture
Mount Holyoke College
March 3, 2018
Non-Sovereign Futures Book Talk
Yarimar Bonilla in conversation with Tout Monde Festival Curators
Little Haiti Cultural Complex, Miami, FL
February 1, 2018
The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico
Anthropology Colloquium
University of California – Los Angeles
January 31, 2018
The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico
Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene Research Lecture.
Humanities Institute, University of California – Santa Cruz