Nationally renowned speakers to explore Latino issues April 14-16

UNL’s Institute for Ethnic Studies will celebrate spring with three lectures featuring nationally recognized speakers.

The series, which runs April 14-16, includes receptions with students, faculty, staff and the public. Each of the free, public lectures is from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Sheldon Museum of Art’s auditorium. 

The “Spring Celebration” series, an annual event organized by the Institute for Ethnic Studies, brings nationally recognized speakers to campus for lectures and receptions.  

This year’s talks include:

>April 14: Edén Torres, associate professor of gender, women and sexuality studies and chair of Chicano and Latino studies at the University of Minnesota, "Latinas/os and the Mechanisms of Racial Capitalism." 

>April 15: Stephen Pitti, professor of history and American studies and director of ethnicity, race and migration at Yale University, "Latinas/os and the Public History of the United States." 

>April 16: Cristina Rodríguez, professor of law at Yale, “Immigration Reform and the Political Value of Manufactured Crisis.” The talk is co-sponsored by UNL's Humanities on the Edge lecture series.