Professor Lorgia García-Peña and filmmaker Medhin Paolos will visit us from Harvard University where they have been working on a digital archive of immigrant stories. Come hear about this exciting initiative.
Professor Marcy Schwartz, author of Public Pages: Reading Along the Latin American Streetscape, will discuss her research on Latin American cartonera book collectives, political and artistic movements that produce books from recycled cardboard.
Petra Rivera-Rideau, a scholar of race and ethnicity in Latin American and Latinx cultures and professor at Wellesley College, will give a lecture on the racial politics of reggaetón in mainstream music. Oct. 8 @ 5:00 PM Faculty Dining Room Emerson.