Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO)

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El Centro, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies or Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, is a university-based research institute whose mission is to produce, facilitate, and disseminate interdisciplinary research about the experiences of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. and to collect, preserve, and provide access to archival and library resources documenting the history and culture of Puerto Ricans. To complement these core activities, Centro sponsors a year-round program of educational and cultural activities. Since 1983, Centro has been housed at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY).

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Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College

Centro is a research institute which is dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States and produces, disseminates relevant interdisciplinary research. Centro also collects preserves and provides access to library resources documenting Puerto Rican history and culture. We seek to link scholarship to social action and policy debates, and to contribute to the betterment of our community and enrichment of Puerto Rican studies.

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• 01 94 CAFECITO CON… STEVE HOWELL – COLD WAR PUERTO RICO: ANTI-COMMUNISM IN WASHINGTON’S CARIBBEAN COLONY May 19, 2026
• 02 9 CELEBRATING ARLENE TORRES: HONORING A LEGACY OF EDUCATION | CENTRO May 19, 2026
• 03 51 Archipelagic Solidarities — Revolutionary, Caribbean, and Transpacific Relations | CENTRO May 12, 2026
• 04 16 Cultural Afterlives — Literature, Comics, and Global Solidarity | CENTRO May 12, 2026
• 05 12 Screening: Archiving, Movement, & Mapping Memory | CENTRO May 12, 2026