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Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies

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.

Poster of Global Perspectives Lunch Series-IA

Mexico from the Northeast: A Symposium

ONLINE DUE TO WINTER STORM

Register here for Zoom link

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.

Mexican Studies Symposium Poster

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.

 GPLS Poster

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.

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