Tuesday, August 22, 2006

2:00-5:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina, 1203 West Nevada, Urbana

Information table at I-Celebrate

Wednesday, August 23 , 2006

7:00pm, Douglass Community Center, 510 East Grove Street, Champaign

A community dialogue

“African Americans and Latinas/Latinos: Eliminating Barriers to Coalition Building,” presented by Dr. Samuel Betances, Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University (for more information, go to http://cdms.ds.uiuc.edu)

Thursday, August 31, 2006

7:00pm, 180 Bevier Hall, 905 S. Goodwin, Urbana

Documentary film screening: “The Other Side”

"The Other Side" documents Bill Brown’s two-year journey along the US-Mexico border and focuses on the work of migrant activists who have established water stations in the deserts of the Southwest in response to the growing number of immigrants who die there every summer.

Wednesday, September 6, 2006

7:30pm, Levis Faculty Center (third floor), 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana

Center for Advanced Study/Millercomm 2007 presentation

“Culture and Politics in Mexico: The Symbolism Behind Political Campaigns,” Larissa Adler Lomnitz, Researcher Emeritus of Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Department of Applied Mathematics and Systems, Universidad Autónoma de México, Mexico City (for more information, go to www.cas.uiuc.edu)

Thursday, September 7, 2006

4:00-6:00pm, Latina/Latino Studies Program, 510 East Chalmers, Champaign

Latina/Latino Studies Program Open House

Thursday, September 14, 2006

5:00-8:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina, 1203 West Nevada, Urbana

"Programming 101"

Workshop for students seeking funding through SORF, PCC, CPFC and other funds

Thursday, October 5, 2006

12:00-1:30pm, 242 Bevier Hall

Colloquium

Dr. Elaine Peña, Latina/Latino Studies postdoctoral research associate, “Contextualizing the Ineffable: Conflict, Devotional Capital, and the Production of Sacred Space in a Multi-ethnic Chicago Neighborhood”

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
1:00-2:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Brownbag Series
Sujey Vega, graduate student, Department of Anthropology, "Mapping Memories:  Transnationalism, Memory, and Space in Mexican Chicago"

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

7:00-9:40pm, Temple Buell Hall Auditorium

“Latino Immigration: Local and National Challenges”

Immigration forum with guest panelists, community representatives, faculty and students

Thursday, October 12, 2006

12:00-1:30pm, La Casa Cultural Latina (room 107), 1203 West Nevada, Urbana

Migration Studies Reading Group

Dr. Bernadete Beserra, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil, title TBA

Thursday, October 12, 2006

4:00-6:00pm, Latina/Latino Studies Program, 510 East Chalmers, Champaign

Latino Graduate Student Reception

Sunday, October 22, 2006

8:30-4:30pm, Illini Union

Latino Family Visit Day

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
12:00-1:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Brownbag Series
Joe Feria, graduate student, Department of Educational Policy Studies, "Post-Brown Segregation and the Struggle of Youth against Government Sanctioned Violence"

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
12:00-1:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Brownbag Series
Jillian Baez, graduate student, Institute of Communications Research, "Mexican American Women Talk Back:  Audience Responses to Representations of Latinidad in U.S. Advertising"

Thursday, November 30, 2006
12:00-1:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Brownbag Series
Irune del Rio, graduate student, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, "Title TBA"

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

12:00-1:30pm, La Casa Cultural Latina (room 107), 1203 West Nevada, Urbana

Migration Studies Reading Group

Dr. Gilberto Rosas, Latina/Latino Studies postdoctoral research associate, “The Managed Violences of the Borderlands: Treacherous Geographies, Policeability, and the Politics of Race”

Friday, December 8, 2006
12:00-1:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Brownbag Series
Aide Acosta, graduate student, Department of Anthropology, "Title TBA"

Thursday, February 1, 2007
12:00-1:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Brownbag Series
Rufina Cortez and Judith Estrada, graduate students, Department of Educational Policy Studies, "Rethinking Educational Practices:  Dialogical Exchange Between Critical Educators-Activists and Zapatista Communities"

Friday, February 16, 2007

12:00-1:30pm, La Casa Cultural Latina (room 107), 1203 West Nevada, Urbana

Migration Studies Reading Group

Dr. Elaine Pena, Latina/Latino Studies Post-doctoral Research Associate, “How to Reproduce Sacred Space: A Study of Architects, Immigration Lawyers, and Guadalupan Devotees in a Chicago Suburb”

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

12:00-1:30 pm, location TBA

Colloquium

Dr. Gilberto Rosas, Latina/Latino Studies Post-doctoral Research Associate, Title TBA

Friday, February 23-Sunday, February 25, 2007

Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana

Latina/Latino Studies Graduate Student Conference

Thursday, March 8, 2007
12:00-1:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Brownbag Series
Margaret Enrile, graduate student, Department of Anthropology, "Title TBA"

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

12:00-1:30pm, La Casa Cultural Latina (room 107), 1203 West Nevada, Urbana

Migration Studies Reading Group

Dr. Julie Dowling, Latina/Latino Studies faculty, title TBA

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Illini Union

Latino student Career Conference

Wednesday, September 7, 2005
5:00-7:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Workshop for RSOs on seeking funding through
SORF, PCC, CPFC and other funds

Sunday, October 2, 2005
8:30-4:00pm, Illini Union
Latino Family Visit Day

Monday, October 3, 2005
3:00-4:30pm, 112 Gregory Hall
Colloquium
“Mexico and U.S. Feminism, “with Dr. Rolando Romero, Dr. Richard T. Rodriguez, and Brenci Patiño

Wednesday, October 5, 2005
12:00-1:30pm, Asian American Studies Program
Brownbag Series
Dr. Augusto Espiritu, Department of History and Asian American Studies Program, “A 'Chino' Visits Boricua: Intersections of Asian American and Latino Studies”

Thursday, October 6, 2005
7:00-8:30pm, Latina/Latino Studies Program
Latino Graduate Student Reception

Thursday, October 10, 2005
12:00-1:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Brownbag Series
Dr. Gilberto Rosas, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Latina/Latino Studies, Northwestern University, “Alberto Gonzales’s Border: The Dilemma of Multiculturalism for Latino Studies”

Tuesday, October 11, 2005
12:00-1:00pm, 112 Speech & Hearing Sciences Building
Colloquium
Dr. Lilia Fernandez, Postdoctoral Fellow, Latina/Latino Studies Program, “Latina/o Labor Migrations to the Midwest in Historical Perspective: Mexican and Puerto Rican (Im)migrants to Chicago During and After World War II”

Friday, October 14, 2005
6:00-9:00pm, 505 Green St., Room 201
“Global Educational Dialogue: Freirian Pedagogy & Brazilian Education” 

Tuesday, October 18, 2005
7:00-9:00pm, Foellinger Auditorium
“The Adventures of Connie Chancla,” written and performed by Maria Elena Gaitan 

Tuesday, October 25
4:00-6:00pm, 141 Wohlers Hall
A reading by Luis Aguilera, Chicago-based author of Gabriel’s Fire 

Thursday, October 27, 2005
4:00-5:30pm, 108 English Building
Colloquium
Dr. Jonathan Inda, Associate Professor, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Targeted Illegalities:  Technology, Ethics, and the Government of Immigration"”

Thursday, November 3, 2005
4:00-5:00pm, 229 Natural History Building
Colloquium
Dr. Ruby Tapia, Postdoctoral Fellow, Latina/Latino Studies Program, “Race, Memory and Motherhood in Beloved’s Intertext”

Friday, November 18, 2005
Illini Union, University of Illinois
Multicultural Youth Conference 

Thursday, January 26, 2006
4:00-5:30pm, 106 Lincoln Hall
Latina/Latino Studies History Search Candidate Talk

Dr. Dionne Espinoza, Department of Chicano Studies California State University, Los Angeles, “’Out of the Movement Kitchen’ : El Movimiento and Chicana Feminist Activism in the 60s & 70s” 

Monday, February 6, 2006
4:00-5:30pm, 229 Natural History Building
Latina/Latino Studies Health Search Candidate Talk
Dr. Edna Amparo Viruell-Fuentes, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, “The Social Embeddedness of First- and Second-Generation Mexican Immigrant Women:  A Critical Perspective on the Latina/o Health Paradox”

 
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
12:00-1:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Brownbag Series
Tiffany Schiffner, graduate student, Department of Educational Policy Studies, “Latina College Students’ Sexual Health Beliefs about Human Papillomavirus Infection”

 
Monday, February 13, 2006
4:00-5:30pm, 229 Natural History Building
Latina/Latino Studies Health Search Candidate Talk
Dr. Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health, “Guardians of Well-Being:  The Emotional Dimensions of Caregiving Among Women in a Mexico City Suburb” 

Friday, March 3, 2006
5:00-8:00pm, Beckman Auditorium and Atrium
Latina/Latino Studies Program Tenth Anniversary Celebration 1996-2006
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Lecture Series Inaugural Lecture and Reception

• Lecture by Dr. Jason Ferreira, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University (University of Illinois Alumnus, Class of 1992, B.A.), Topic: “Return to the Source: Latina/o Studies in Times of War”

• Response by Dr. Lourdes Torres, Associate Professor and Director, Latin American and Latino/a Studies and Modern Languages, DePaul University (University of Illinois Alumna, Class of 1988, Ph.D.)

Thursday, March 30, 2006
12:00-1:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Brownbag Series
Mario R. Perez, doctoral student, Department of Educational Policy Studies.

“’Truth through the Thickets of Fantasy’: The Making of Latino Knowledge in the U.S., 1965-1975”

Tuesday, April 18, 2006
12:00-1:00pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Brownbag  Series
Marcia Martinez, doctoral student, School of Social Work.

“Contextualizing Mental Health and Resilience among Latina Women: Negotiating In/visibility, Acculturative Stress, and Identity Politics”

Monday, April 24, 2006
5:00-7:00 pm, Education Building, Room 2 (Lower Level, North End)
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Lecture Series
Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez, Professor and Head, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Arizona.

“CHELO SILVA AND THE SOUNDTRACKS OF CHICANA/LATINA FEMINIST MOVEMENTS”

Prof. Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez’s lecture is part of the Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Lecture Series. The lecture will explore the very successful singing career of Chelo Silva, a legendary Chicana performer. According to Prof. Broyles-Gonzalez, Chelo Silva’s work has “shaped womanist discourses throughout the Americas. Her provocative repertoire is powerful testimony to the importance of the oral tradition as a site of thought and contestation.”

Thursday, April 27, 2006
5:00-7:00 pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Presentation
Victoria Romero, Chicago Department of Public Health

“How to Utilize your LAS Degree: Service, Social Work, Awareness, and Community Outreach"

Thursday, April 27, 2006
5:00-7:00 pm, La Casa Cultural Latina
Presentation
Victoria Romero, Chicago Department of Public Health

“How to Utilize your LAS Degree: Service, Social Work, Awareness, and Community Outreach"