New events announced for “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History”
This spring the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture has partnered with the , UALR Department of English, UALR Office of Campus Life, and the to introduce a new series of events in the public program Latino Americans: 500 Years of History. Each illustrating the history of Latinos in America and encouraging public conversation.
February 11, 2016 | 12:15 p.m. | Community Discussion
“New Discursive Historical Spaces: Mexican and Chicana Women as Revolutionary Rhetors”
Cristina D. Ramirez, Ph.D.
UALR Stella Boyle-Smith Auditorium
February 12, 2016 | 4:00 p.m. | Community Discussion
“Looking in Different Spaces: Women as Historical Figures and Social Trailblazers”
Cristina D. Ramirez, Ph.D.
Arkansas Studies Institute building 路 124
February 25, 2016| 6:00 p.m. | Panel Presentation
“Black & Brown Lives: Justice Over Social Divides”
Aquil Charlton and Esmeralda Baltazar
Clinton School of Public Service 路 Sturgis Hall
February 26, 2016| 6:00 p.m. | Youth Workshop
“Black & Brown Lives: Justice Over Social Divides”
Aquil Charlton and Esmeralda Baltazar
UALR Institute on Race and Ethnicity
March 10, 2016 | 4:30 p.m. | Community Discussion
“Mexican Agricultural Laborers in Arkansas and Trans-national Influences on U.S. Civil Rights“
Justin Castro, Ph.D.
UALR Bailey Alumni & Friends Center
Each event is free and open to the public. Check out our website for more information.
Latino Americans: 500 Years of History is made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA), is part of an NEH initiative, The Common Good: The Humanities in the Public Square.