Fall 2019 Events

Democracy Under a Volcano: Understanding Protest Movements in Latin America

Date: Monday, November 4, 2019
Time: 5:30 pm
Location: Ladd Hall, 307
Organized by visiting assistant professor Collin Grimes (Political Science), with Profs Viviana Rangil (WLL), Marial Lander (WLL) and Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (Theater), this panel provides insight and commentary on the largest social mobilization in a generation in Chile, Venezuela, Argentina Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Haiti, and Peru.

Painting the Border: A Child's Voice

Date:  Opening October 7; open through October 18
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Case Gallery, Case Center
The youngest asylum seekers at the US southern border have something to say about “Return to Mexico”, a policy that has left them homeless in one of the most dangerous cities in the world.  Children in Ciudad Juárez painted their responses to the question: What do you think about the border? Their paintings express hope, fear, a longing for home, and the stark realities of survival in one of the most dangerous cities in the world.   Diana Barnes (WLL) and student curators in her Scribner Seminar, “Chaos Finds a Voice:  The Politics of Identity in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands,” welcome you to view work by artists/children who, either alone or with parents, are among more than 15,000 asylum seekers stranded in Ciudad Juárez under the  Trump Administration’s Migration Protection Protocols (also known as “Return to Mexico”). Since the initiative commenced in earnest in July, more than 40,000 asylum seekers have been either denied entry to the U.S. or have been returned to Mexico after making asylum claims. Prof. Barnes collaborated with representatives from the Organization for World Peace, border muralist Cimi Alvarado, and El Paso NGO Seguimos Adelante, to bus children from their shelters for a day of painting and fun. 

LALS Fall Welcome Back Fiesta

Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2019
Time: 6 pm
Location: Murray Aikins Dining Hall, 2nd Floor