The Hare: A Cultural Magazine for Students as a Living Archive: Presentation Slides

The Hare: A Cultural Magazine for Students as a Living Archive

Oriele Benavides, A Lebre (The Hare), Princeton University

What is the purpose of a graduate student magazine in a language department? The aim of this presentation is to give an example of how we answered this question by creating a cultural magazine for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University, The Hare. We conceived of the magazine as a space for research and exploration of all that goes beyond academic standards, but also as an inspiration for our research and daily interests in cultural, political, and aesthetic issues: a supplement to our lives as students and scholars of culture. We suggest that a journal can be a tool for community building, care and healing, and can benefit mental health and a holistic approach to research. Oriele Benavides will share how preparing a dossier on Venezuelan migration allowed her to connect my personal experience as a Venezuelan international student to the larger academic community in the United States. She will conclude by highlighting the ways in which she believes The Hare originally contributed to the conversation about the migration crisis, segregation, displacement, and xenophobia.

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