<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-f0be681a-7fff-5874-b60f-93d628a55804" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">An Ethics Institute colloquy with Dr. Jose Torres-Padilla</span><br></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wednesday, April 6, 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Noon over Zoom (link to be provided)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Institute for Ethics in Public Life</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Roberto Clemente was the iconic Afro-Puerto Rican baseball hall-of-famer who died tragically on a humanitarian mission to aid the victims of an earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua. In a new novella about Clemente, Torres-Padilla – a long-time member of SUNY Plattsburgh’s English program – explores racism from a Caribbean and Puerto Rican perspective. Rather than offering readers a fictional biography, the novella  represents a fictional journey into Clemente’s afterlife experience – essentially a voyage of discovery, self-awareness and self-affirmation, particularly as these relate to Clemente’s African ancestry. Torres-Padilla’s approach to the Clemente narrative is influenced by current critical race theory, and therefore our conversation on Wednesday will undoubtedly focus on issues of race, racism, and racist ideology. Torres-Padilla will also examine the connection between colonialism and racism and draw our attention to the nuanced differences in the ways a Puerto Rican experiences racism in Puerto Rico (or an Afro Latinx person in their own country) as opposed to what happens in the United States in general. Throughout the novella, Torres-Padilla raises, through Clemente, the prickly problems of racism that many Latinx communities continue to confront. </span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Colloquies at the Ethics Institute are open to all members of the SUNY Plattsburgh community.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For further information, contact Dr. Jonathan Slater, director of the Institute for Ethics in Public Life at </span><a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(17,85,204)">slaterjr@plattsburgh.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Institute for Ethics in Public Life is a program of SUNY Plattsburgh with additional support made possible through generous gifts to the Plattsburgh College Foundation.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;margin:0px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;line-height:18px;margin:0px;font-weight:bold;text-transform:uppercase">CINDY L MCMUR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