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| Ernesto Cuevas, Jr: Narrative of a Migrant Child
Exhibit by Ernesto Cuevas Jr., artist
March 19 - May 21
M-F, 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Galería América @ ND
Open to the Public.
Born the son of migrant farm workers, his journey has taken him from the fields to Dartmouth College and back to his community of San Antonio. | | Guest Poetry Event: Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Reading
featuring winner Felicia Zamora and judge Edwin Torres
April 4, 2018
Reception at 6:15 P.M.
Reading at 7:30 P.M.
210-214 McKenna Hall
Open to the Public.
Of Form & Gather, Zamora's book of poems concern themselves with probing questions, not facile answers. | | U.S. Naturalization Ceremony
April 13, 2018 at 11:00 A.M. Washington Hall, University of Notre Dame
The Community is invited to attend a special Naturalization Oath Ceremony swearing in over 100 new U.S. Citizens. | |
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| Due Process and Access to Justice: The Immigrant Reality
Guest Lecture by Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director of the National Immigration Justice Center
April 17, 2018 at 4:30 P.M.
210-214 McKenna Hall
Open to the Public.
McCarthy is a Notre Dame graduate and has recently been honored with MALDEF's Excellence in Legal Service Award for her work in immigrant and human rights advocacy. | | Policing their Own: Latinx, La Migra, and the Conflict of Being Both
Latino Studies Seminar lecture by David Cortez, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
April 19, 2018 at 12:30 P.M.
Private Dining Room, Morris Inn
By Invitation Only. RSVP required to imaldona@nd.edu
Professor Cortez will be joining the University of Notre Dame in Fall 2018, as an Assistant Professor of Political Science and an ILS Faculty Fellow. | | Sighting Mexican America among the Phantoms: Photorealism and the Encompassing Life and Art of Jesse Treviño
Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture by
José E. Limón
April 26, 2018 at 4:00 P.M.
210-214 McKenna Hall
Open to the Public. Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and University of Texas at Austin's Mody C. Boatright Regents Professor of American Literature Emeritus. | |
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For Undergraduates:
Latino Studies in the Professions
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This series will discuss how the Latino Studies Major and Minor prepare students for professional careers in various fields. Each semester, the series will feature an ND Alumni speaker, who majored or minored in Latino Studies, to share his/her work experience.
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Guest Speaker: Prisma Garcia, '09 Director of Capacity Building |
| Thursday, April 19, 2018 • 7:00 P.M.
Samora Library, 204 McKenna Hall This session of Latino Studies in the Professions will focus on working in Community Benefit Organizations (Non-Profit sector). Notre Dame Alumnus Prisma Garcia will be joining this session to discuss how her Latino Studies Major enhanced her career path.
In addition, we will address the following: What courses are offered? How many credit hours are required? What can I do with a Latino Studies Major or Minor after I graduate? Are there scholarships for Latino Studies students? Join former and current Latino Studies Majors and Minors along with Director of Undergraduate Studies, Karen Richman, to learn more about the Supplementary Major and Minor.
Light refreshments will be provided. All are welcome.
Click HERE for a full listing of Fall 2018 Latino Studies Major and Minor Courses.
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Fornés Playwriting Workshop
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Application Deadline:
April 23, 2018 by 11:59 P.M. EST
Workshop dates: June 25 to July 3, 2018
University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, in collaboration with workshop coordinator, Anne García-Romero, Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, is seeking writers to participate in a one-week playwriting workshop. This workshop, held in downtown Chicago, will be taught in the tradition of award-winning playwright Maria Irene Fornés.
Led by award-winning playwright and Fornés protégée Migdalia Cruz, an alumna of Fornés’ Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Laboratory at INTAR, the workshop will meet for four hours each day and will culminate in a public reading of selected scenes from workshop students by professional actors in Chicago this summer.
Click here for additional information and application.
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Karla Burgos-Morón awarded the 2017-2018 Leonard Holtz Award for Leadership 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 to D.C. this summer with the Institute for Latino Studies' Cross Cultural Leadership Program, at the U.S. 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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"All the Breath We Can Hold", a New Exhibition by Maria Tomasula Maria Tomasula is the Michael P. Grace Professor of Painting, Notre Dame Art Department and ILS Faculty Fellow. Her new work titled, "All the Breath We Can Hold," is on exhibit at Forum Gallery in New York, New York through April 7th.
Soo Y. Dang, Professor of Art History at Chicago State University in speaking about Tomasula's exhibition, "(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."
To see additional works by Maria Tomasula click here.
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University of Notre Dame Press Releases 2018 Latino Studies and Literature Catalog The University of Notre Dame Press 2018 Latino Studies and Literature Catalog was recently released. This series of books meets our mission to foster scholarship by and about Latinos and the issues that affect them. In 2001 the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame launched a book series in collaboration with ND Press. The series publishes work on the cutting edge of scholarship, general works that can be used as college textbooks, and reprints of classics. Titles in the book series address issues in the area of Latino spirituality and religion; border affairs, immigration, and globalization; Latino arts and culture; and social sciences and public policy.
To view the full catalog click here.
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Mark Your Calendar
ND Day 2018
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ND Day 2018 begins on Sunday, April 22nd at 6:42 P.M. and the live broadcast will run for 29 hours. Watch your email for an announcement of the launch of the ILS ND Day Page - every vote counts and helps ILS continue to provide programming and scholarships to students.
For additional information about ND Day and the events surrounding this annual event please watch the video below.
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Exciting Opportunities & Partner Events
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Opportunities and Challenges in the Advancement of Women in the Latin American Church Lecture by Ana María Bidegain
Friday, April 6, 2018 Reception at 3:00 P.M. • Hesburgh Center Great Hall
Lecture at 4:00 P.M. • Hesburgh Center Room C103
Ana María Bidegain is a professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University, and former Kellogg Visiting Fellow. This event is organized by the Latin American North American Church Concerns and the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. It is co-sponsored by the Mexico Working Group, and The Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism.
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Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE ND) to host César Chávez Blood Drive
Friday, April 6, 2018
11:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Duncan Student Center
April donors will be entered into a raffle to win one of ten $100 gift certificates drawn each week. Bring a photo ID.
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