#  Latinidad and Global Diasporas Initiative Flash Talks 

 



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 **February 12, 2025** 

 04:00PM - 05:30PM EST 

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 **CGIS South, Room S-030**  



 

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Join us for a series of flash talks exploring the rich tapestry of Latinx Studies presented by DRCLAS' Latinidad and Global Diasporas Initiative. Harvard professors Gabriela Soto Laveaga, María Luisa Parra, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, and Aitor Bouso Gavín will briefly discuss work related to Latinx Studies, followed by a session where attendees can mingle and learn more about DRCLAS' Latinidad and Global Diasporas Initiative!

**Speakers**

**Gabriela Soto Laveaga**, Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, Harvard University

**María Luisa Parra**, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

**Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof**, Professor of History, Harvard University

**Aitor Bouso Gavín**, Lecturer in Latinx Studies, Harvard University

**Event Schedule**

**4 PM - 5 PM-** Panel Flash Talks and Q&A

Each speaker will discuss their work and/or a topic related to Latinx Studies for 5 – 7 minutes each followed by a Q&A at the end

**5 PM - 5:30 PM-** Networking session with light refreshments

**About the Speakers**

**Gabriela Soto Laveaga** is Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University. Her current research interests interrogate knowledge production and circulation between Mexico and India; medical professionals and social movements; and science and development projects in the twentieth century.

**María Luisa Parra** has a B.A. in Psychology, a Ph.D in Hispanics Linguistics and fifteen years of experience in the fields of Second Language Acquisition and Child Bilingual Development. She has taught Spanish Language and Culture at Boston University and in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard. She is pioneering the Spanish courses for Latino students Spanish 49h ("Spanish for Latino students") and 59h ("Spanish for Latino Students II: Connecting with the Community). And she is the coordinator of the RLL's Initiative on the teaching of Spanish as heritage language.

**Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof** is Professor of History at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on the history of Latinx people in the United States, the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, immigration and asylum law, publicly engaged humanities, and digital humanities. Hoffnung-Garskof taught for twenty years at the University of Michigan, before joining the faculty at Harvard. There he directed the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and was founding director of the Immigrant Justice Lab, a collaborative project to produce public scholarship with community partners in the field of immigration and asylum law, now shared between the University of Michigan and Harvard.

**Aitor Bouso-Gavín** (he/him/él) joined EMR as a lecturer of Latinx Studies in Fall 2024, where he is also the faculty director for the Latinx Studies Working Group. Aitor is an interdisciplinary scholar with a primary focus on Latinx literature, culture, and visual arts. Aside from Latinx literature and visual arts, Aitor’s research and teaching interests are Black studies, decolonial trauma theory, feminist and queer of color critique, and medical humanities. His primary research draws on works by prominent Latinx authors and visual artists to examine the creative expression of internalized harm and trauma as a catalyst for personal, political, and social healing and relationality.

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