Events
UNC Latina/o Studies Program Café y Charla Open House
Dear Friends, We hope you will come and break bread with us at our spring 2020 Latina/o Studies Program Café y Charla open house. At the café y charla, guests will have the opportunity to enjoy some delicious pupusas and … Read more
Professor Rebeca Hey-Colón: “‘You’re Not Infected with Something, Are You?:’ Affliction and Exposure in Gloria Anzaldúa’s ‘Puddles’”
Murphey Hall 104Abstract: Gloria Anzaldúa’s name is predominantly associated with her much anthologized text Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Published in 1987, Anzaldúa’s sui-generis text has become a staple in courses on Border Studies, Gender Studies, Chicanx/Latinx Studies, etc. Nonetheless, Anzaldúa wrote … Read more
UNC Latina/o Studies Program Graduate Symposium: “Health, the Environment, and the Latinx Experience”
Donovan Lounge @ Greenlaw Hall 223***Due to COVID-19 This Event Has Been Rescheduled for Fall 2020*** Click here to visit our page for the Fall 2020 Symposium. Call for Papers The UNC Latina/o Studies Program Graduate Symposium March 17, 2020, 4PM-6PM, Greenlaw Hall 223 (Donovan … Read more
The UNC Latina/o Studies Program’s “Health, the Environment, and LatinX Experiences” Grad Symposium (Day 1: 4-6 PM)
ZoomPanel: Shared Spaces & Lives: Overlapping and Discrete Experiences “Modern Transnational Familia: Exploring Cultural Gaps in the Experiences of Latinx Families,” Santiago Bejarano Hernandez “Xing Borders: TRANSPLANTation as Survival and Subversion in the Fiction of María Luisa Bombal and Isabel … Read more
The UNC Latina/o Studies Program’s “Health, the Environment, and LatinX Experiences” Grad Symposium (Day 2: 4-6 PM)
ZoomPanel: Ecological Ruminations, Diagrams, and Philosophies “Colonial Saints Subverted by an Indigenous Brush: Cecilia Vicuña’s pre-Pinochet Paintings,” emilio jesús taiveaho peláez “Another Way of Seeing: Latinx Environmental Existentialism in Cortázar’s ‘Axolotl,'” Krysten Voelkner To attend, click on this Zoom Link or copy … Read more
The UNC Latina/o Studies Program’s “Health, the Environment, and LatinX Experiences” Grad Symposium (Day 3: 4-6 PM)
ZoomPanel: (E)merging Bodies: Environmental Hazards and Vulnerable Populations in LatinX Ecopoetics “The Lithic Poetics of Limestone: Porosity and Vulnerability in a Warming World,” Christine Johns “‘A Place with no public memory’: Pueblo and Nuevomexicano experience at the Los Alamos Nuclear … Read more
poetry books in the age of corona: a conversation with emilio taiveaho peláez, josé felipe alvergue, & orvokki crosby
ZoomMiss the live event? Check out the video recording! What is the place of poetry during a global pandemic? Accompanying the release of emilio’s debut collection of poetry, landskips (words are a hard look), a collaboration with The Concern … Read more
Help us improve Wikipedia articles about Latinx heritage
The University Libraries and the Carolina LatinX Center are hosting an event to improve Wikipedia's articles about Latinx heritage. There will be a live Zoom event on October 7, as well as an asynchronous option from October 1-15. Visit the … Read more
Brandeis University’s Braided Memories, a Poetry Reading and Conversation with Marjorie Agosín
ZoomJoin our friends at Brandeis for a multimedia presentation and panel discussion about the emotional, literary and visual iterations of loss and reclaimed identity in post-Holocaust Latin American feminist literature. Poet and scholar Marjorie Agosín and photographer Samuel Shats explore … Read more