FRIENDS OF THE ENDOWMENT
The Puerto Rican Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Council Conducted Projects, Resources and Services offers a series of programs to enrich the curriculum and the teaching of the humanities in Puerto Rico. Our objective is to highlight the value to society of understanding and interpreting the human experience.
The Friends of the Endowment program is intended to distribute more effectively the cultural products that are produced through the Office of Projects and, simultaneously, create a support network that establishes a source of funding for the development of humanities projects.
If you are interested in becoming a Friend of the Endowment, please contact the Endowment.
HUMANIST OF THE YEAR
The Endowment grants the Humanist of the Year award to individuals who have distinguished themselves, through their work, their teaching and other activities, by making significant contributions to the dissemination of the humanities. The selection of the Humanist of the Year takes place annually and the winner is recognized publicly in a ceremony in which he or she presents a lecture. This discourse is published and becomes part of the institution’s cultural resources.
Lectures given by the Endowment’s Humanists of the Year:
Year | Humanist | Conference Title | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Concha Meléndez | NO CONFERENCE AVAILABLE | View Details |
| 1980 | Lidio Cruz Monclova | El libro en la cultura puertorriqueña | View Details |
| 1981 | Margot Arce de Vázquez | Lo idílico en El Quijote: La historia de Marcela y Grisóstomo | View Details |
| 1982 | Francisco Arriví | Voluntad de ser puertorriqueño en mi poesía, teatro y ensayo | View Details |
| 1983 | José A. Balseiro | Puerto Rico en mi obra | View Details |
| 1984 | Enrique A. Laguerre | Puerto Rico más allá de su historia visible | View Details |
| 1985 | Isabel Gutiérrez del Arroyo | Don Juan Alejo de Arizmendi: Primer Obispo puertorriqueño | View Details |
| 1986 | Jaime Benítez | La crisis en la civilización contemporánea | View Details |
| 1987 | María Teresa Babín | Artistas de la supervivencia cultural en Puerto Rico | View Details |
| 1989 | Arturo Morales Carrión (póstumo) | Las Humanidades en el currículo | View Details |
| 1990 | Ricardo Alegría | Apuntes en torno a mi contribución en defensa, fomento y enriquecimiento de la cultura puertorriqueña | View Details |
| 1991 | Manuel Álvarez Nazario | Josefína de Álvarez | La lengua como signo raigal de la puertorriqueñidad | La literatura como signo raigal de la puertorriqueñidad | View Details View Details |
| 1992 | Ismael Rodríguez Bou | Episodios de mi vida como educador | View Details |
| 1993 | Manuel Méndez Ballester | El ser puertorriqueño y su lengua (a la luz de la filosofía de Heidegger) | View Details |
| 1994 | Francisco Lluch Mora | Cuatro instancias en la poesía de Luis Cartaña | View Details |
| 1996 | Luis Rafael Sánchez | ¿Por qué escribe usted? | View Details |
| 1997 | José Ferrer Canales | Hostos y Giner | View Details |
| 1998 | Luis E. González Vales | Al servicio de Clío. El oficio de Historiador Oficial de Puerto Rico | View Details |
| 1999 | Aida R. Caro Costas | Breve historia del adoquín sanjuanero | View Details |
| 2000 | Luis M. Díaz Soler | Un estudiante ante su disciplina | View Details |
| 2001 | Mercedes López Baralt | Mestizo, me lo llamo yo a boca llena: Sobre la textualidad de la hibrides en los comentarios reales del Inca Garcilaso | View Details |
| 2002 | Laura Gallego | Evocación de José Antonio Dávila | View Details |
| 2003 | Arturo Echavarría | Luce López Baralt | El canon literario | La alabanza a Dios que nos enseñó el lenguaje de los pájaros | View Details |
| 2004 | Fernando Picó | Raíces históricas de la violencia en Puerto Rico | View Details |
| 2005 | Osiris Delgado | El concepto de la vanguardia-falsedad y autenticidad en las artes plásticas | View Details |
| 2006 | Antonio Martorell | Humanidad es… | View Details |
| 2007 | Luis Nieves Falcón | El asedio de la humanidad en Puerto Rico: La represión política | View Details |
| 2008 | Ana Helvia Quintero | Abriendo posibilidades | View Details |
| 2009 | Ángel G. Quintero Rivera | El humanismo ecológico y la sociología del trabajo y la cultura | View Details |
| 2010 | Thomas Marvel y Lucilla Fuller | Una arquitectura para Puerto Rico/Anticipando una planificación integral y justa | View Details |
| 2011 | María de los Ángeles Castro y Gervasio García | Power contra Meléndez Bruna: la lucha por la España de todos | View Details |
| 2012 | Gonzalo Córdova | Mi ruta hacia las humanidades | View Details |
| 2013 | Flavia Lugo | Vivir las humanidades | View Details |
| 2014 | Arturo V. Dávila Rodríguez | José Pablo Morales Miranda: El humanismo en los Valles del Toa | View Details |
| 2015 | Teodoro Vidal | En proceso… | View Details |
| 2016 | Arcadio Díaz | Sobre los finales | View Details |
SPEAKERS BUREAU
This program is aimed at promoting knowledge of the humanities in the public schools and the community in Puerto Rico by sponsoring lectures on humanities topics. These lectures are presented by humanities experts with excellent academic preparation and experience in their respective fields of study.
The Lecturers Program is divided into two parts:
- Conferences coordinated through the Endowment – The FPH has a speakers bureau of humanists who offer talks about a variety of topics in the schools, the community, municipal offices, cultural centers, etc.
- Conferences through the University Dialogues Program – Several universities in Puerto Rico have an agreement with the FPH to offer conferences in the public and private schools of their surrounding communities. The schools interested in having speakers contact the universities directly and they coordinate the conferences offered by the professors from their institutions.
The FPH’s services can be requested by filling out the appropriate form and sending it to our institution.
REGIONAL CENTERS
The Endowment has a network of institutions around the Island that serves as a link with our offices in San Juan. The Regional Centers are cultural entities located in various communities around the Island that receive and make available to the public the Endowment’s wide variety of resources. The Centers are in charge of creating a variety of humanities projects in the regions they serve. Among other resources, they rely on a representative sample of the audiovisual collection to offer on loan to the public they serve. Forms and general information about the programs and services offered by the Endowment can be obtained by contacting the Centers.