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Latinx Studies @ 50: Part Two

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When: Mar 31, 2022 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Latinx Studies @ 50: At the Vanguard of Ethnic Studies: PART TWO Register in advance for this webinar: https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K9PcdLiJRnC9OsY7H_5gLw Or an H.323/SIP room system: H.323: 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 221.122.88.195 (China) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) 209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong SAR) 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) 149.137.68.253 (Mexico) 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) Meeting ID: 937 0188 6125 SIP: 93701886125@zoomcrc.com After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Arturo Arias (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of California, Merced ) Arturo Arias is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of California, Merced. He has published Recovering Lost Footprints: Contemporary Maya Narratives. Volumes 1 (2017), and 2 (2018), Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America (2007), The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy (2000), The Identity of the Word: Guatemalan Literature in Light of the New Century (1998), and Ceremonial Gestures: Central American Fiction 1960-1990 (1998. 2001-2003 President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Professor Arias co-wrote the film El Norte (1984), and has published seven novels in Spanish, two of which have appeared in English (After the Bombs, 1990, and Rattlesnake, 2003). 2020 Guggenheim Awardee, twice winner of the Casa de las Americas Award, and winner of the Ana Seghers Award for fiction in Germany. Tanya Katerí Hernández (Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law ) Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law (USA), where she is an Associate Director of the Center on Race, Law, & Justice. Hernández is a Fulbright Scholar who holds a B.A. from Brown University and a law degree from Yale University. She is the author of Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law and the New Civil Rights Response; Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination; and the forthcoming book Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality (Beacon Press). Twitter @ProfessorTKH. Vicki L. Ruiz (Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine ) Vicki L. Ruiz is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. A first generation college-bound student, she received her PhD in History from Stanford University in 1982. An award-winning scholar and educator, she is the author of Cannery Women, Cannery Lives and From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America and co-author of Created Equal: A History of the United States. She and Virginia Sánchez Korrol co-edited the three-volume Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, which received a 2007 “Best in Reference” Award from the New York Public Library. Over the course of her career, Ruiz has participated in numerous public history and community engagement programs, including Arizona State’s Hispanic-Mother Daughter Program. From 2007-2012, she served as Dean of the School of Humanities at UC Irvine. In 2012 Professor Ruiz was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (Professor and Chair of the Department of American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ) Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor and Chair of the Department of American Culture and former director and core faculty member of the Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Women’s and Gender Studies. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he received his AB from Harvard (1991) and his MA, MPhil, and PhD from Columbia (1999). He is author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and of Escenas transcaribeñas: Ensayos sobre teatro, performance y cultura (Isla Negra Editores, 2018) and coeditor with Deborah R. Vargas and Nancy Raquel Mirabal of Keywords for Latina/o Studies (New York University Press, 2017). His book Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2021 as part of the Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance series.

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