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Time
JANUARY
Tuesday, January 29

Brown Bag Lecture: The Israeli/Palestine Conflict's Impact on the Arab and Jewish Diasporas in Latin America by Edward Kaufman, Senior Researcher, Department of Government and Politcs, UMD

0142 Holzapfel Hall

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

FEBRUARY
Thursday, February 7

Career and Internship Workshop with featured speakers: Immigration Lawyer Jay Marks, Assitant Director of Global Learning and Leadership at American University Shoshanna Sumka, and Medical Interpreter at Liberty Language Services Silvia Villacampa

0100 Marie Mount Hall (Maryland Room)

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Wednesday, February 20

Café Break Series: Get an Education Before He Leaves You: Consejos[Advice] for Mexican American Women Pursuing Higher Education by Michelle Espino, Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education, UMD

Francis Scott Key 2120 (Merrill Room)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tuesday, February 26

Lecture: Radical Moves: Caribbean Migration and the Working-Class Roots of Interwar Black "Renaissance" by Visiting Scholar Lara Putnam, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

National Museum of American History
1400 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20560

3:30 PM

MARCH
Friday, March 1

Workshop:History Across Borders: Methodological and Narrative Challenges of the Transnational Turn by Visiting Scholar Lara Putnam, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

3200 Knight Hall

9:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Tuesday, March 5

Lecture: Transnational Pasts and the Immigrant Present: Can New Stories about Where We're From Shape Where We Go From Here? by Visiting Scholar Lara Putnam, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

3202 Knight Hall

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Friday, March 8

Workshop: History Across Borders: Methodological and Narrative Challenges of the Transnational Turn by Visiting Scholar Lara Putnam, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

3200 Knight Hall

9:30 AM - 2:30 PM

APRIL
Tuesday, April 2

Lecture: In the Folds of the Sacred: A Genealogy of the Politcal in the Hispanic World by Visiting Scholar El Palti, Professor, Political Science, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires

3202 Knight Hall

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Saturday, April 6

Workshop: Recent Approaches in the Intellectual History and Political Languages of Nineteenth-Century Latin America by Visiting Scholar El Palti, Professor, Political Science, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires

Francis Scott Key 2120 (Merrill Room)

10:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Wednesday, April 17

Café Break Series: Trials Without End: Violence and the Politics of History in Bolivia after World War II
by Laura Gotkowitz, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

Francis Scott Key 2120 (Merrill Room)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Wednesday, April 24

Office of the International Services' International Coffee Hour sponsored by LASC

Ground Floor Lounge, Dorchester Hall

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Tuesday, April 30

Book Presentation and Discussion: "Uncivil Wars: Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory" by Sandra Cypess, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Maryland

Francis Scott Key 2120 (Merrill Room)

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

MAY
Saturday, May 18

LASC Certificate Student Graduation Brunch. Held in honor of our spring semester graduating Certificate Students. RSVP required.

Tawes Hall, 3rd Floor Patio

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

 
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