

Guest Scholar: Dr. Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, UCONN, Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut Director, El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies. Prof. Overmyer-Velazquez teaches on economic and political imperialism, human rights, migration, cultural nationalism, political membership, gender relations, race and racism, identity formation, religion, labor, immigration law, and the arts.
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Guest Scholar: Anthony Mora, Ph.D, University of Mich-Ann Arbor and Steve Pitti, Yale Historian, is coming back! Professor Mora's principal research interests focus on the historical construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the U.S. His book Border Dilemmas explores the ways that racial and national ideologies influenced the meaning of Mexican identity along the nineteenth-century U.S./Mexico border. His current research explores the relationship between African Americans and Mexican Americans in the early-twentieth-century Midwest.
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Episode 6: Peril and Promise, Screening and Discussion
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2016
Time: 5:30 p.m. Reception; 6 p.m. Screening; 7 p.m. Discussion
Location: Connecticut Room, Memorial Hall
Guest Scholar: Dr. Erendìra Rueda, Sociology professor at Vassar College. Rueda teaches in the Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and American Studies Multidisciplinary Programs. She received her B.A. in sociology from the University of California at San Diego and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a UC ACCORD Fellow and a Spencer Foundation Fellow. Her primary areas of research and teaching are the sociology of education, immigration, and childhoods.
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Public Lecture October 14, 2015, Davidson 206 @ 9:30 a.m., with Juan G. Ramos, Assistant Professor of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross. Dr. Ramos is a native of Ecuador. His latest research project focuses on modernismo in the Andes, particularly in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. His lecture will focus on the question of mestizaje.