American Studies Undergraduate Program
2019
January
Event: “Decolonizing the Canon of Costa Rican Literature: Literature of the Margins”
Speaker: Professor Gabriela Chavarría, University of Costa Rica
Location: English Room, Kansas Union
Date: January 24 at 3pm Refreshments will be served!
Sponsored by KU's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
February
Event: “Latina Feminist Moments of Recognition: A U.S. Colombiana Encounter with Bomba Estéreo’s ‘Soy Yo’”
Speaker: María Elena Cepeda, Professor of Latina/o Studies at Williams College
Location: Malott Room, Kansas Union Date: February 12 at 5pm
Sponsored by: Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Department of Film and Media Studies, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Department of American Studies, Department of Music, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
2017
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Co-Sponsored Events
Center for Migration Research Lecture Series
Sujey Vega, Women & Gender Studies, Arizona State University
Bypassing Borders: How Latinos Assert Belonging and Practice Home in the Heartland
February 7th, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
Marta Caminero-Santangelo, Department of English Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Stories of the Undocumented: Cultural Trauma and American DREAMers
February 21, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
The Commons
Reception begins at 6:30 p.m.