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Inaugural Latinx Convocation

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The Latinx community is excited to announce its first ever Harvard College Latinx Convocation on Sept. 23rd at 4pm in Memorial Church. The event is a ceremony celebrating Latinx achievement at Harvard, while welcoming Latinx-identifying freshmen to campus...

Dos X: On the Crip Ethics of the "Misrecognitive" in Latinx and Filipinx American Culture

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To attend, please register through Eventbrite using this link. This presentation will explore the theoretical and historiographic contributions of ethnic studies in problematizing the in/capacitations and disablements central to the project of colonial...

Afro-Latinx Literature: Alejandro Heredia and Natasha Alford

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Join the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights for a conversation on contemporary Afro-Latinx literature with novelist Alejandro Heredia and journalist-author Natasha S. Alford. This event is part of Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, Harvard...

Senior Preceptor María Luisa Parra Publishes New Book on Spanish Teaching for Latinx Students

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María Luisa Parra Velasco, Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures and member of the Faculty Committee on Mexico at DRCLAS, has recently published Enseñanza del español y juventud latina (Arco, 2021). In this book, Parra Velasco shares her...

The Latinx Vote in the 2024 U.S. Elections

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This panel will explore the mobilization and preferences of LatinX voters in the run-up to the 2024 U.S. election. Speakers: Ali Valenzuela, Associate Professor of Government, School of Public Affairs, American University. Marcel Roman, Assistant...

Film screening of Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro-Tradition in the Heart of Mexico, hosted by the Latinx Student Association

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This event is virtual, to register click here. Speaker: Ebony Bailey, cinematographer and director of film Join us on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 6:30 PM EST for a special screening of Jamaica y Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico. The...

21st Century Bilingualism at Harvard: How Latinx students are reshaping Spanish classroom pedagogy

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Speaker: María Luisa Parra, Senior Preceptor in Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University Novel theoretical frameworks are being developed as global immigration challenges our traditional notions of languages bound to nation...

Latinidad and Global Diasporas Initiative Flash Talks

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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...

Walkout Film Screening and Panel Discussion

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This event is virtual, to register click here. Join us for a film screening and panel discussion about the historic 1968 East LA Walkouts by Latinx/Chicanx students in the Los Angeles Unified School District and their enduring impact on educational equity...

Harvard senior launches Latinx literary magazine

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Rethinking Afro-Latinidad Through Literature

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This event will provide a forum for a dynamic and intersectional conversation that transcends borders—geographic and imaginary—between the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Through writing and literature, we will explore the ample and ever...

Indigenous diplomacy: participation and the agenda of the Indigenous Peoples at the UN

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To register for this event, click here. Speaker: Diego Tituaña, Kichwa Otavalo diplomat from Ecuador who served at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations from 2014 to 2019 and was in charge of human rights, disarmament, and international security...