In celebration of our program director Dr. María DeGuzmán’s 20th anniversary as Founder and Director of the Latina/o Studies Program and 25th Anniversary of the LSP Speaker Series, the LSP has invited a very prestigious guest to present a talk with … Read more

Join us for Spring semester Open House! Open to all LSP affiliates, friends, and the community at large.

Virtual public talk with author Caro DeRobertis. Register here. "A writer of Uruguayan origins, Caro De Robertis is the author of the forthcoming novel The Palace of Eros, as well as The President and the Frog, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and … Read more

Join us for our yearly collaboration with UNC Film Studies' Kino Corner program (tarheels.kinocorner.live.edu) for a screening of Mosquita y Mari (2012) in the Genome Sciences building G100 on March 26th at 7:00 pm. There will be an introduction to the … Read more

Adela C. Licona, Ph.D., is the founder and lead consultant at The Art of Change Agency, supporting critical voices and creative visions for sustainable practice, structural change, and social transformation. She is author of Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation … Read more

This virtual presentation examines the character of Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) from the Star Wars universe, specifically Rogue One (2016) and Andor (2022) to explore the possibility of critical hope within what José Esteban Muñoz terms the “brown commons.” Both … Read more

Open to all LSP faculty, friends, affiliates, and the community at large! Come join us to learn more about the program; meet our faculty and students; and celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month together. We will have food and beverages, and you … Read more

REGISTER HERE  In his award-winning book, The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism, Trent Masiki examines understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino life writing published after the advent of the Black Arts Movement. In this talk, Masiki discusses how Dr. … Read more