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The Latina/o Studies Program (LSP) at Cornell was the first of these types of programs to be established at an Ivy League institution, and it has played a significant role in validating the field as a legitimate scholarly project.
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Now in its nineteenth 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.
February 3 • 12 pm • 4th floor Rockefeller Hall
Paul Ramirez Jonas
Chair and Professor
Department of Art
College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
Puerto Rican independent reporter Bianca Graulau will discuss the most pressing issues currently facing Puerto Rico in a Friday talk hosted by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program in collaboration with the Puerto Rican Student Association.
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On October 21st, Latina/o/x students, faculty, staff, and alums celebrated community and culture at the Clark Atrium in the Physical Sciences Building with a catered dinner by Cornell Catering, performances by students/student organizations and keynote address.
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A digital and print collection, co-edited by Karen Jaime, pays tribute to the late Miguel Algarín.
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This Professional Directions session will explore the current environment for scholar-practitioners from diverse backgrounds, and how socially conscious performance can or should contribute to making a change in the world.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 @ 4:30 pm
Schwartz center for the Performing Arts, Film Forum
430 College Ave Ithaca, NY 14805
Free and Open to the Public
Juliana Garcia returns to Cornell and will resume in-person "Let's Talk" Rockefeller. As a Cornell alumna, graduating from the ILR school in 2014, she brings with her the ability to relate with Latinx undergraduates facing challenges she once navigated.
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Jaime launches Memorias de Miguel: The Hard Work of Love (Hemi Press 2022), a print and digital anthology including prose and poetry that aims to celebrate the life and legacy of Nuyorican Poets Cafe founder, Miguel Algarín.
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A series of special events, including visits from alumni involved in theatre, film and television, is being planned to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Teatrotaller, a theatre troupe formed to promote Spanish, Latin American and Latino culture.
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The United States must transform its outdated migration policies to address the human devastation that is left in the wake of climate change and environmental catastrophe, Maria Cristina Garcia argues.
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For the 2023 Spring semester, Latina/o Studies offers a range of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. With such a robust curriculum, you have the opportunity to explore and learn about history, performance, border environment, and education, as well as politics, immigration, cultural identity, language, and more.
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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.
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Third-generation educator Bran Alves-Morgan (he/they, él/elle) smiled through Zoom, articulating how his passion for learning and educating lives vicariously through him.
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Professor Karen Jaime's book The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press, 2021) was awarded a Silver Medal in The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Book category at the 24th Annual International Latino Book Awards
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Karen Jaime was born and raised on Long Island, New York by a single Dominican mother who immigrated to New York in her twenties. Dominican cultural norms — the food, speaking Spanish at home (her mother was proficient but not fluent in English) — and community formations informed her upbringing.
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Alumna Karen Jaime wins book award that recognizes greatness in literature honoring authors, translators, and illustrators.
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Latinx community welcomes Adriana Lima as the Residential Hall Director of the Latino Living Center
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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
Congratulations to the Latina/o Studies undergraduate minors and graduates of the class of 2022!
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AnnaBella Adragna is a sociology major.
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Luis Tamayo majors in sociology and Spanish.
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On Friday, April 22, 2022, Latina/o Studies research grant recipients John Kennedy, PhD student, and Alan Ramos '22 presented their research at Pláticas as part of the LSSO Latinx Thrive! Series.
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As a student at Cornell and president of the Cornell Undergraduate Veterans Association, Molina has dedicated himself to strengthening the veteran community on campus.
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Cristina Maria Garcia, professor of history and Latino studies, comments on President Biden’s announcement that the U.S. will admit 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
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The play, A Chicano's Guide to Navigation, written and directed by Cornell students will run from March 24-26, 2022 in the Black Box Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The play is an inspirational story that follows the main character, Juan, who is trying to develop a presentation where he shares his insight into his own experience as a ‘Chicano’ and the effect social media has on how we communicate with each other and perceive our differing and diverse identities
On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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A&S student Jorge Defendini '22, a new member of Ithaca's Common Council, is focusing on environment and housing issues.
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Sitting at a table in the 4th floor Rockefeller Latina/o Studies Program library, Graduate student John Kennedy smiled when asked about why Latino Studies: "Latino studies has been a way to contextualize my identity" while providing a home for community building, knowledge, and engagement.Kennedy's interests in Latin American Studies and related...
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For the 2022 Fall semester, Latina/o Studies offers a range of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. With such a robust curriculum, you have the opportunity to explore and learn about history, performance, pop culture, and education, as well as politics, immigration, cultural identity, language, and more.
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Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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Join us for a book launch and celebration on Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 6 pm to honor Karen Jaime’s pathbreaking scholarship and reflect on the history of the New York institution that is the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Dr. Patricia Herrera and Dr. Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé will speak to the significance of Jaime’s book for the fields of Latinx Studies...
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A new organization, founded by students in the College of Arts & Sciences, offers support and guidance for students who want to translate their research at Cornell into projects that will benefit their hometowns.
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On the evening of December 9, 2021, the sound of cheers from Cornell faculty and staff, family and friends and community members with music by Sally Ramírez and Alex Specker, filled Cornell’s Statler Hotel Taylor room. The Latina/o Studies program hosted a retirement celebration for Professors Pilar Parra and Héctor Vélez to honor their years of...
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The Latinx Student Success Office (LSSO) and Latina/o Studies Program are deeply grateful to the Cornell Latino Alumni Association (CLAA) for its crowdfunding campaign to directly support the LSSO/LSP emergency fund! This 30-day campaign launched November 7, 2021 and exceeded its funding goal, with 68 donors raising $20,203. This initiative...
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Despite the challenges presented by COVID during the fall 2021 semester, students and student organizations were able to organize and host the 28th annual Unity Dinner. Unity Dinner is an event to celebrate unity. From student performances, keynote speakers and dinner, students come together as a community to share space and time with one another...
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A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
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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. This series provides an...
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Melissa Ruiz Hernandez, she/her/ella, a senior in Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), smiled at the question of her favorite thing she has accomplished while working at the Latino Studies Program (LSP); “what you’re doing right now!” she exclaimed with happiness. “Every time I’ve interviewed someone, it’s been someone that I’...
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Composer Roberto Sierra, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, won the 2021 Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition with “Music from Cuba and Spain, Sierra: Sonata para Guitarra.”The 22nd annual Latin Grammy Awards were broadcast live Nov. 18, but when his award was ...
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The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
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Support Latino/a/x Students in Crisis.Please join Cornell Latino Alumni Association in raising $20,000 to help level the playing field for Latinx students Cornell University!The Cornell Latino/a/x Student Emergency Fund provides emergency, stop gap support for students in crisis. Every year, students receiving financial aid are often unprepared...
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Professor Ella Maria Diaz wins two gold medals at the International Latino Book Awards for her book "José Montoya."
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The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
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Introducing students to Cornell University Library’s wealth of resources for learning and research, librarians have been vital to the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) advising seminars program, which pairs students with faculty advisors in the college and connects them with campus resources essential to their well-being and academic success...
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Historian Maria Cristina Garcia comments on the report released this week by the White House on climate change and migration.
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Marla Love, the interim dean of students and a long-time advocate of student well-being as well as equity and inclusion, has been named the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students. Her appointment is effective immediately.Formerly Cornell’s senior associate dean of students, where she oversaw diversity and inclusion, Love has been...
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Dr. Ella Maria Diaz’s second book, José Montoya, has medaled as a finalist for two categories in The 23rd International Latino Book Awards: Best Biography (English) and Best Arts Book. According to the International Latino Book Awards, “the Awards are now by far the largest Latino cultural Awards in the USA,” with 276 finalists in 105 categories...
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In addition to changing its name, the program – celebrating its 60th year – has renewed and expanded its commitment to the study of the Caribbean cultures, places and people.
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Participating in Cornell’s Prefreshman Summer Program (PSP) helped Canyon Cross ’25 – a first-generation college student from Texas who hopes to major in biology and society – realize in advance how challenging the work would be.“I realize that I’ve never had to study extensively, so I’m trying to find the happy medium between getting enough...
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The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will launch its 2021-22 season on Oct. 14 with the world premiere of “Symphony No. 6,” composed by Roberto Sierra, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences.The orchestra and its principal conductor, Domingo Hindoyan, previously premiered Sierra’s trumpet...
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