Now in its eighteenth year, the Latina/o Studies Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for informal conversation about their current research/work in progress and lunch.
Friday, December 2 @ 12 pm
429 Rockefeller Hall (4th Floor Rockefeller Hall)
Ray Jayawardhana
Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Astronomy
College of Arts and Sciences
Cine con Cultura launches its film festival celebrating Latinx Heritage month and brings 14 films in Spanish, English, and Portuguese to Ithaca to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month (Sept. 17-Oct. 16). Film screenings will be held at Cornell Cinema, Cinemapolis, Ithaca College or virtually. Some films are free and all are open to the public.
Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. And yet, under current U.S. law, there is no such thing as a climate refugee.
María Cristina García in a live Chats in the Stacks will talk about her book State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change (UNC Press, 2022). The book offers a critical history of U.S. policy on migration in the Global South, with a focus on Central America and the Caribbean.
Professor María Cristina García is the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. Read more here.
Armadillos (Little Armored Ones)
September 30 @ 12:30pm; October 1 @12:30pm. Procession begins at Ho Plaza.
Armadillos (Little Armored Ones) is a participatory and large-scale puppetry installation performance that addresses the interconnected themes of migration, climate change, and indigeneity. Armadillos explores the interconnections between what compels people and armadillos to seek out new places as the climate changes and in the face of a changing labor economy that continues to invisibilize migrant labor. Audiences will be able to crawl inside a colorful replica of an armadillo and find a comfortable bed and pillow. They will hear a musical score that mixes sound of wind and people walking on various surfaces with stories about migrant workers who traveled to Central New York from Central America and the Mexican Yucatan peninsula. The procession still starts at Ho Plaza and makes it way to the Arts Quad. See more details here.
Student support and resources
Latinx Student Success Office
Fall 2022 drop-in hours with Bran Alves-Morgan, LSSO Advisor/Advising Dean:
Fridays @ 438 Rockefeller Hall
11:00 am -12:00 pm
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Looking for a quiet place?
Need a small, quiet, low-distraction space in central campus to study, or participate on zoom? Latina/o Studies has space(s) to reserve. Stop by LSP or email latino_studies@cornell.edu to reserve!
