The University of Notre Dame's Multicultural Student Programs and Services in collaboration with the Institute for Latino Studies is proud to host the National Council of la Raza's President and CEO, Janet Murguía for its 2017 Latino Recognition Ceremony, Friday, May 19th at 7:00 p.m., Washington Hall, University of Notre Dame.…
Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies—in partnership with the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)—is pleased to present, “Down These Mean Streets Poetry Reading,” featuring Martín Espada…
INTER-UNIVERSITY PROGRAM FOR LATINO RESEARCH
SIXTH BIENNIAL SIGLO XXI CONFERENCE:
MAPPING OF LATINO RESEARCH
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO
MAY 17-19, 2017
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Seven students were recognized at the 31st annual Student Leadership Awards Banquet on April 10.
The Institute for Latino Studies' co-director Luis Fraga has been chosen as this year's Goshen College commencement speaker.
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Agustín Fuentes finds the four predominant arguments that seek to explain human evolution and human nature to be compelling but extremely simplified. Years of research and an emphasis on cross-disciplinary conversations has instead led him to a more complete story of human evolution. Creativity and collaboration, he argues in The Creative Spark, are the most important explanations for why we are the way we are.
Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS)—in partnership with the University of California Washington Program (UCDC)—is pleased to present “A Poet Laureate’s Journey: a conversation and reading with Juan Felipe Herrera.” The evening event will take place on Monday, April 24 in Washington, D.C. at the University of California Washington Center.…
Faculty Fellow Francisco Aragón, who directs the Institute’s literary initiative, Letras Latinas, was interviewed recently at Blog This Rock, in his capacity as a finalist for the Freedom Plow Award. The award, a program of the organization, Split This Rock, “honors a poet or poetry collective doing transformative work at the intersection of poetry and social activism.” The interview with Aragón was subsequently picked up and highlighted at Harriet…
Award-winning Chicano writer to read at Notre Dame
Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the Institute for Latino Studies, is pleased to present an evening with Rigoberto González. Author and editor of seventeen books in multiple genres, and winner of numerous awards, González will be reading from his work on Wednesday, April 19 at 7:30 PM in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies Auditorium with a pre-event reception to take place at 6:15 PM in the west lounge on the second floor of McKenna Hall.…
Jennifer Jones is an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her research uses qualitative methods to explore increasing migration, the growing multiracial population, and shifting social relations between and within racial groups. In this video, she discusses her work on how race relations are changing and what race means for politics and inequality.
On March 26, three Latino Studies Faculty, Tatiana Botero, Anne Garcia-Romero and Karen Richman took 45 of their students to Chicago to experience Latin American Street cuisine at the new theme restaurant, Latinicity, and to see a play by an award-winning Latina playwright at the Goodman Theatre. In Destiny of Desire,…
Institute for Latino Studies co-director, Luis R. Fraga shares his thoughts on the impact of Hispanics on the American Catholic church as well as American at large. He explores the reasons for the struggle of integration and offers solutions for the Catholic schools to build cultural understandings. …
‘We’re there to walk with them on this journey’ Church seeks to accompany students, families, communities who fear Trump immigration policies"
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RISE OF THE LATINA
Latinas “have a huge appetite” for financial information... The women, especially foreign-born immigrants, find the Resurrection Project classes empowering and workshops often are full.
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Why These Trump Voters Are Sticking Up For An Undocumented Neighbor
By: Pete Buttigieg
"Tearing apart a community, a business, and a family will make America worse off, every time. Americans of good will, regardless of party, are demanding a better way."…
Open letter from two professors of color
“As professors of color, we regularly face the realities exposed by Trump’s hate speech and his administration’s... In fact, to do our jobs well, we must challenge the assumptions that made hate speech a winning campaign strategy."…
Educate All Children to Learn, Thrive and Grow
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”Dorene Dominguez ’85
Chair, Vanir Group of Companies
Chair, The Dominguez Dream
– Nelson Mandela
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What Legacy Do We Want to Leave Our Children and Grandchildren?
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SOUTH BEND — Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, is pleased to be partnering with Notre Dame’s Creative Writing Program to present, “Because We Come From Everything: a night of poetry and community.” This campus event will feature students, faculty, staff, and members of the community, who will all be sharing poems on the theme of migration. The reading will take place on Thursday, March 30 at 7:30 PM in the banquet hall in the basement of McKenna Hall.
…The Institute for Latino Studies' Co-director Luis Fraga has been working in collaboration with the Alliance for Catholic Education and Holy Cross grade school to initiate the area's first Catholic school Spanish-English immersion program.
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