Events at Skidmore
LACLAS regularly sponsors and co-sponsors events and activities that bring attention to issues that affect Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o/e/x communities, highlight the work of its members, build community, and increase the visibility of and network with local professionals and organizations, among others.
Spring 2024 Events
Global Perspectives Lunch Series
“Ottoman Bro Culture? Sports Clubs in Early-Twentieth-Century Istanbul”
Murat C. Yildiz (History)
Friday, April 26th, 12:30-2 pm, Murray-Aikins Dining Hall Test Kitchen
Co-sponsored by Asian Studies, International Affairs, LACLAS, and World Languages and Literatures.
Mexico from the Northeast: A Symposium
ONLINE DUE TO WINTER STORM
Saturday, March 23rd, 10 am-3:30 pm
Program
10-11 am, Panel Discussion: Mexican Studies from the Northeast
Discussant and Moderator: Oscar A. Pérez (Skidmore College)
“The Sinking Metropolis: 21st-Century Literary Imaginations of an Underwater Mexico City,” Tabaré Azcona (Cornell University)
“Poetics of Justice: Mexican Literature’s Responses to Feminicidal Violence,” Diana Aldrete (Trinity College)
“Latinidad, Melodrama, and Passing in Tanya María Barrientos's Frontera Street,” Abel Arango (Skidmore College)
“Xenophilia,” Lu Han (Cornell University)
11 am-12 pm, Keynote Address: “Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change,” Carolyn Fornoff (Cornell University)
1:30-2:30 pm, Panel Discussion: Teaching Mexico
Discussant and Moderator: Cristina E Pardo Porto (Syracuse University)
“Teaching Zoque and Binnizá Poetics: Exploring Irma Pineda and Mikeas Sanchéz’s Transborder Narratives,” John Kennedy Godoy (Western Carolina University)
“Teaching Colonial Mexico through the African Diaspora,” Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva (University of Rochester)
“Teaching Mexican Cultures through Flavors and Movement,” Nadia Marin-Guadarrama (Skidmore College)
2:30-3:30 pm, Keynote Address: “Retos para un Mexicanista en la Costa Este,” Pedro Ángel Palou (Tufts University)
Co-sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, the Mexicanists of Central New York Working Group, LACLAS, and the Department of World Languages and Literatures.
Global Perspectives Lunch Series
“What the War-torn Bodies Recollect: Sri Lankan (Post)War Performance Art”
Sandamini Ranwalage (English)
Friday, February 23rd, 12:30-1:30 pm, Murray-Aikins Dining Hall 2nd Floor
Co-sponsored by Asian Studies, International Affairs, LACLAS, and World Languages and Literatures.
Exploremore 2024
Thursday, February 22nd, 4:30-5:30 pm, Murray-Aikins Dining Hall 2nd Floor
Come explore minors and courses that will...
- Engage you with your community
- Broaden your perspectives
- Foster dialogue
Co-sponsored by Black Studies, Intergroup Relations, and LACLAS.
