Hosted by the Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program and the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Belonging (College of Arts and Sciences)

Every year, Universities and communities across the country are eager to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month: often, they do so under a culturalist lens, sharing what is perceived as typical “Latinx” food, speaking Spanish, or wearing what might amount to questionable Halloween costumes. Moving beyond oversimplified celebrations of “heritage” and cultural traits, this presentation argues that heritage month commemorations offer an opportunity to learn about the histories, structural challenges and struggles of US-born Latinas and Latinos that helped solidify the field of U.S. Latina/o Studies (now evolving into Latinx Studies) within an ethnic studies framework (which is different from Latin American area studies).

With Sara María Acevedo, Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Co-presented by: University of California, San Francisco (Office of Diversity and Outreach (ODO) Disability Resource Center (DRC) and Office of Diversity and Outreach (ODO) Multicultural Resource Center (MRC)

Join the Department of History  and Distinguished Visiting Scholar Christy Garrison-Harrison will give a talk entitled "Traversing the Materiality of Hostile Spaces: The Geographies of Black Women's Political Activism and Leadership."

Carlos Amador, Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Distinguished Visiting Scholar alumnus (2021-22), will host the conversation, “Chilena Comics, Memory, and Narrative in the Age of New Media." He will be speaking with internationally best-selling author Carlos Reyes. He is the author of many works in and outside of graphic novels; most recently, he has published “Victor Jara: un canto comprometido,” along with, “Nosotros los Selknam” and “Los años de Allende, all with illustrator Rodrigo Elgueta.

Join the Department of African and American Studies and Roberto Zurbano for a screening of "Zurbano and his Racial Consciousness" (2022). Followed by a discussion with Roberto Zurbano, Janaina Oliveira and Donte McFadden.