Latin American and Latino Studies

Events

JOIN US AT OUR ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE

Winter Quarter 2009-2010
January 20, 2010
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Center for Latino Research &
Latin American and Latino Studies Program
2320 North Kenmore Avenue
Schmitt Academic Center, SAC 5A-H
Chicago, IL 60614
773.325.7316

Celebración de Nuestra América Calendar Series 2009 - 2010

Commemoration of the Mexican Revolution

  • Muralism and Corridos in Chicago
    February 2010
    DePaul University
    Location & Time TBD

    Chuy Negrete, Marcos Raya, and Hector Duarte discuss their use of Revolutionary images and art forms in their public music and art.

    FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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  • Chicago: Immigration and the Revolution
    April 2010
    DePaul University
    Location & Time TBD

    Panel discussion with young scholars, in tenure track careers and writing on the Mexican Revolution, discuss the formation of Mexican Chicago as a result of the Revolution.

    FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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  • Guest Speaker
    April 2010
    DePaul University
    Location & Time TBD

    Presentation by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, best-selling author of detective fiction, noted for historical biographies of Revolutionary figures.

    FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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  • Guest Speaker
    May 12, 2010
    DePaul University
    Location & Time TBD

    Elena Poniatowska, noted for her writings on the Mexican Revolution, discusses women in the Revolution and in contemporary Mexico.

    In collaboration with Depaul University's Women's Center and The National Museum of Mexican Art

    FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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  • Guest Speaker
    May 2010
    DePaul University
    Location & Time TBD

    Presentation by Friedrich Katz, historian at University of Chicago, noted for his work on the Mexican Revolution.

    FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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  • Guest Speaker
    May 2010
    DePaul University
    Location & Time TBD

    Sandra Cisneros, Chicana writer and Chicago native, discusses her creative works that have included the Mexican Revolution and the meaning of the Revolution for Chicana/os.

    FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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DePaul University Sponsors: Center for Latino Research, Latin American and Latino Studies, Office of the Provost, Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, School for New Learning, Department of Modern Languages, Department of English, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse, College of Communication, the Theatre School, School of Education, Center for Black Diaspora, Department of History, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Irwin W. Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning, and the Women's Center

Student Organization Co-Sponsors: DePaul Alliance for Latino Empowerment (D.A.L.E) and Sigma Delta Pi

Community Collaborators: National Museum of Mexican Art