IFCLAS sponsors a variety of activities to give visibility and promote scholarship about Latinos at Harvard. It also serves as a clearinghouse for resources and ongoing research efforts at the University relating to Latinos. While seeking to strengthen scholarship, IFCLAS does not engage in research. This activity happens at the individual faculty level or through other collaborative efforts.

IFCLAS activities include:

• Sponsorship and coordination of events and presentation, including a Spring lecture series.
• Serving as a clearing house for resources and activities about Latinos, including events sponsored by student organizations and other units across the University.
• Promoting connections with area colleges and faculty engaged in Latino studies. To this end, IFCLAS manages an electronic news listserv, NElatinofaclist. This listserv is an initiative of the Greater Boston Latino Consortium, founded in the Spring of 2004. The list is a forum for academics, University administrators and activists committed to the development of Latino studies and Latino community development in the area.
• Developing resources for students at Harvard interested in Latino Studies and promoting their academic engagement in this area. These include the development of a brochure about Latino Studies at Harvard and the launching of the IFCLAS Annual Thesis Award recognizing the best undergraduate thesis about Latinos at Harvard.

For further information, please contact chbarron@fas.harvard.edu

 

EVENT ARCHIVES

FARMINGVILLE - Film Screening

Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini’s 2004 film FARMINGVILLE will be shown. The film, which won a Sundance Special Jury Prize in 2004, covers the attempted murders of two Mexican workers in a suburban Long Island town. Film showing followed by discusson.
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005
4:00 - 6:00pm
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA
Sponsored by the Inter-Faculty Committee on Latino Studies at DRCLAS.

LATINO LEADERSHIP AT A CROSSROADS

Half-Day Symposium
April 20, 2005
12:30-7:00 p.m.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Coordinated by the Center for Public Leadership, Kennedy School of Government
79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge
Taubman ABC, Kennedy School (Fifth Floor, Taubman Building)
RSVP required to "scott_webster@harvard.edu"

LATINO LAW and PUBLIC POLICY CONFERENCE

Connecting Today, Impacting Tomorrow
April 22 - 23, 2005
Harvard Law School
Registration required.

LATINOS AND THE CHANGING FACE OF GREATER BOSTON

Half-Day Symposium
Friday, April 29, 2005
8:30 - noon
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public

A GATHERING OF VOICES: BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF LATINO STUDIES SCHOLARS

A half-day research roundtable sponsored by
The Greater Boston Latino Studies Consortium
Friday, April 29, 2005
2:00 - 6:00pm
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public

DYING TO LIVE & ALAMBRISTA

Two Films in Dialogue on US/Mexico Immigration
Film showing followed by discussion with David Carrasco (HDS) and Father Daniel G. Groody, Assistant Professor of Theology and the Director of the Center for Latino Spirituality and Culture at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Friday, April 29th, 2005 6-9pm
HarvardDivinitySchool
Andover Hall, Sperry Room, Francis Avenue, Cambridge
For more information, contact: cowen@hds.harvard.edu

BEYOND HUNTINGTON: HARVARD STUDENT RESEARCH ON LATINO STUDIES

2nd Annual Harvard Latino Studies Research Symposium
Friday, May 13, 2005
Harvard University
The symposium will provide an opportunity for current Harvard University students from across schools to discuss new and ongoing work on Latino Studies. The symposium aims to establish a Latino Studies research community at Harvard across disciplines, and to provide an opportunity to present research.  The symposium will include a plenary session and keynote address by a Latino Studies scholar. More information on the symposium and last year's schedule can be found at: www.hlsrs.org.