This year the Institute for Latino Studies is proud to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its founding. The celebration will take place on Friday, April 17, in Corbett Family Hall’s Downes Club on campus.
ILS’s 20th anniversary celebration will feature a main program from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., an evening cocktail party and, to cap off the night, a performance by…
Educated at Stanford University with a career in the Silicon Valley, Paloma Garcia-Lopez saw herself living her entire life on the West Coast that she loved.
Paloma was born and raised in California and her roots run deep in the state’s culture and history. Her parents worked closely with American labor leader Cesar Chavez, who ran the Community Service Organization and co-founded the United Farm Workers out of California. …
Junior Aaron Benavides is pursuing faith through service, building community through writing and design, and understanding where in the world he stands through the study of politics and theology. Through all of those activities, on campus and abroad, he is further exploring his heritage — and contemplating its significance.
Kraig Beyerlein has been awarded a $290,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study change over time in characteristics of protests in the United States, such as size, demographic composition, presence of counterdemonstrators and the use of disruptive tactics.
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Course listings for Latino Studies for the Spring 2020 semester.
Juan J. Morales
Letras Latinas, the literary initiative of the ILS, is pleased to present, for the first time, an off-campus event in our local community—specifically, at the Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture, located at 1045 West Washington. The poets Juan J. Morales, Oliver Baez Bendorf, and Roy Chicky Arad, will be performing their work on Thursday, November 7, at 7 PM. …
Prof. Jason Ruiz lectures during a Winter Research Trip to Colombia
ILS Faculty Fellow Jason Ruiz has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching. Ruiz is an associate professor of American Studies who teaches courses on race and popular culture, Latinx history and studies, and gender and sexuality studies.…
Credit: Serena Zacharias | The Observer
Todd Miller's lecture “Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration and Homelands Security,” an event co-sponsored by the Institute for Latino Studies as part of its Hispanic Heritage month programming, was featured in Notre Dame's The Observer. …
A group of six Latino Studies merit scholars from Notre Dame traveled to Mexico this summer in a cultural exchange trip organized by the Institute for Latino Studies. There, the LSSP scholars teamed up with students at the Monterrey Institute of Technology, popularly known as “El Tec,” at the university's Sante Fe campus in Mexico City. The El Tec students were part of the Lideres del Mañana (Leaders of Tomorrow) Program, which offers generous scholarships to low-income students from around Mexico to attend one of the 26 campuses comprising El Tec’s University System, considered one of the best in Latin America. This is the third year that Notre Dame Latino Studies students have participated in the trip.…
Join us in celebrating this years' Hispanic Heritage Month! The Institute for Latino Studies presents its second annual Hispanic Heritage Month at Notre Dame. This month is comprised of diverse and unique events and scholarly activities aimed to acknowledge the importance and educate the campus community about the intellectual richness that Latino communities provide to the U.S.…
Bond Hall, the new home of the Institute for Latino Studies, was featured in a recent Observer article "Recently renovated Bond Hall welcomes new departments, initiatives" (Sept 13 2019).
According to the story, Bond Hall was originally built in 1917 and served as the University's main library until 1964. Currently it houses the ILS in addition to the Graduate School, the Office for Postdoctoral Scholars, the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures, the Flatley Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, and a new initiative for first-year science and engineering students. The ILS moved from McKenna Hall at the end of Spring semester as the building undergoes a two-year renovation.…
ILS graduate student Oliver Ortega weighs the University's role as a hotbed for Catholic thought against its notable lack of Latinx students.
ILS faculty and an affiliated student partook in a local poetry reading as part of efforts to raise money for immigrants in need. It was one of dozens of readings taking place in 45 cities across the United States Wednesday.
Francisco Aragón, a faculty member at Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, organized the local Writers for Migrant Justice event. Misael Osorio-Conde, an MFA student at Notre Dame, read his poem “Detention Center.” The money will go to a nonprofit called Immigrant Families Together, which provides legal representation, medical services, housing, food, and clothing to immigrants in need.…
Professor Orlando Menes
Francisco Aragón
The Unamuno Authors Series Festival was the first of its kind: an anglophone literary gathering in Madrid, Spain. It featured sixty poets taking part in public events in five venues over six days—from May 27th through June 1st. Writers hailed from Canada, England, Greece, Ireland, Italy and the United States. Among the poets who participated were ILS faculty fellows Orlando Menes and Francisco Aragón.…
Welcome back! We are excited to have everyone back for another amazing semester. Here is the list of all the events ILS will be hosting or co-sponsoring this semester. For the most updated information as the event approaches, please check our website.
Professor Luis Fraga has been selected as the 2019 Norton Long Career Achievement Award winner for his work in political science by a committee of distinguished peers. The award is given each year to a scholar who has made important contributions to the study of urban politics over the course of a career. …
MacKenzie Isaac knew she wanted to improve her Spanish skills at Notre Dame. But to be truly fluent, she needed to learn more than the language. That mindset drew the junior sociology major to the Institute for Latino Studies, where she’s found academic inspiration, research support, and a welcoming community. She's also spent two summers doing research at Harvard, added a minor in data science, and hopes to pursue a career in public health.
DALLAS, TEXAS, February 8, 2019 — For the second year in a row, renowned Dallas business attorney Marcos G. Ronquillo…
Rita Moreno will speak at 5 p.m. Feb. 21 in the Leighton Concert Hall at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. This is a free but ticketed event and is open to the public. Tickets can be reserved through the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center…
