CBH Talk | Puerto Rico at a Crossroads

As Puerto Rico confronts mounting economic pressures, climate vulnerability, migration, and renewed debates over sovereignty and self-determination, questions about the island’s political future have taken on new urgency. In the wake of the most recent election cycle, what paths lie ahead for Puerto Rico and how are activists, intellectuals, artists, and everyday Puerto Ricans imagining the island’s future?

Join CBH as renowned scholar of Puerto Rican social and political movements José A. Laguarta Ramírez moderates a conversation about the competing visions shaping Puerto Rico today with Ed Morales, author of Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico and Natalia Viera Salgado, whose curatorial work engages decolonial practice, environmental justice, and contemporary art.

Together they examine the island’s colonial relationship to the United States, the role of the Puerto Rican diaspora, the social, cultural, environmental stakes embedded in these debates, and how these questions are being wrestled with through contemporary art and cultural practice as Puerto Rico’s creative community responds to issues of colonialism, displacement, environmental crisis, identity, and resistance.