Please join the New York City Latin American History Working Group (NYCLAHW) for a talk by Herman Bennett, Professor of History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York and Author of Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640 and Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico.

The Latina/o and Latin American Faculty Working Group at Teachers College will hold a conference on the educational experiences of Mexican youth and families in the tri-state area on October 2 and 3. The conference, which will take place at Teachers College, will explore the varied educational opportunities and experiences—from early childhood to adulthood—of Mexican immigrants throughout the region. Among the featured speakers will be Kris Gutierrez, Professor and Provost's Chair University of Colorado at Boulder and President-Elect of the American Educational Research Association, who will deliver an address on “The Pedagogical Imagination and Mexican American Youth: Teaching toward Possibility.” Also scheduled to give a presentation is Stella Flores, Vanderbilt University on “State Dream Acts and Latino Immigrant Youth: Public Policy, College Access, and Geography.” The conference will also feature a roundtable discussion on What 'We Can Learn about Mexican Americans and U.S. Education from International Comparisons'. Taking part in the discussion will be Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY; Margaret Gibson, Professor of Education and Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz; Carola Suárez-Orozco, Professor of Applied Psychology and Co-Director of Immigration Studies, New York University; and Maurice Crul, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam.

Please join CLACS for a talk by Valentina Napolitano, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and author of Migration, Mujercitas and Medicine Man: living in Urban Mexico. This event will be hosted by James Dunkerley (KJCC Andres Bello Chair).