Speaker Series
Fall 2009
October 16, 2009
Veronica Leyva, Organizer, Mexico Solidarity Network
US/Mexico Border Dynamics: A speaker from the front lines of one of Mexico's most dynamic social movements
Co-sponsored by the Department of Language, Literature and Linguistics, Centro de Estudios Hispanicos, and Women's and Gender Studies
October 21, 2009
Paola Gutierrez Galindo, Witness for Peace
Why we Migrate: Stories of Mexico's Displaced
Co-Sponsored by CNY Detention Task Force, La Casita, and Caribbean Latin American Coalition
November 5, 2009
Edmundo Paz-Soldán
Literatura Latinoamericana del Nuevo Milenio
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Language, Literature and Linguistics and the Latino-Latin American Studies Program
Spring 2010
February 24, 2010 Eggers 341, 4pm *
Alfredo Lopez, Physician and former migrant worker
Title and Abstract TBA
March 2, 2010 Eggers 341, 4pm *
Maria Cristina Garcia, Professor of History, Cornell University
Title and Abstract TBA
April 12, 2010 Eggers 220, 12:45pm *
Jorge Durand, Professor of Anthropology, Universidad de Guadalajara
Title and Abstract TBA
April 21, 2010 Eggers 341, 4pm *
Robert Courtney Smith, Professor of Sociology, Baruch College and CUNY-Graduate Center
Title and Abstract TBA
*Lecture Organized by the PLACA Seminar and Speaker Series