Public Lecture: April 17, 2018 at 4:30 P.M., 210-214 McKenna Hall, University of Notre Dame

NOTRE DAME, IN – April 9, 2018 – The Institute for Latino Studies is honored to host Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director of Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center on April 17, 2018 for a community lecture.  McCarthy will be speaking on Due Process and Access to Justice: The Immigrant Reality. This lecture is free and open to the public.…

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NOTRE DAME, IN – March 26, 2018 – Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, is honored to present Felicia Zamora, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize…

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FORNÉS PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP

June 25 to July 3, 2018

224 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL

A sketch of Maria Irene Fornes by Amanda Denbeck

The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, in collaboration with the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, and the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, is seeking writers to participate in a one-week playwriting workshop, in the tradition of award-winning playwright Maria Irene Fornés, to be held in downtown Chicago.…

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photo by Barbara Johnston

Karla Burgos-Morón, class of 2019, has been awarded the 2017-2018 Leonard Holtz Award for Leadership. This merit-based scholarship is awarded to two juniors annually. Karla is a Political Studies major with supplemental majors in Latino Studies and Peace Studies. She has spent a semester studying in Washington, D.C. and plans to return this summer for an Institute for Latino Studies sponsored internship with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services program in anti-trafficking. Karla is a well-respected leader on campus serving as the co-president of the Student Coalition for Immigrant Advocacy, co-vice chair of the Diversity Council, and co-chair of the Latino Honor Society. Karla is an impassioned advocate for immigrants and refugees, especially victims of trafficking. ILS is thrilled that this strong student leader and future legal and public policy advocate is being honored with such a prestigious award.…

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Mothership, 2017, oil on panel, 20x16

ILS Faculty Fellow, Maria Tomasula's work is currently being displayed in a new exhibition titled, "All the Breath We Can Hold", at Forum Gallery in New York, New York through April 7th. 

Soo Y. Dang, Professor of Art History at Chicago State University speaks about Tomasula's exhibition, stating that Tomasula "has spoken about her fascination with the colonial Baroque decorations in the Mexican Catholic Churches she attended as a child. She also vividly remembers the idealized figures of saints, who were presented in scenes of horrific martyrdom that were abundant in those churches as well. This is the genesis of her flower still lives, which, although beautiful in overall appearance, are actually revealed to be tortured upon close examination, as the pieces are strenuously tied, pulled and pierced by nails, hooks, and strings, the recurring instruments of affliction in Tomasula's oeuvre."…

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