Category: Events

  • Democracia Agora ou Nunca: os desafios do novo governo brasileiro

    Join us for a discussion about the current challenges of Brazil’s new government with an exemplary panel of publicly engaged scholars. **This event will be in Portuguese**  Date and time: Monday, March 6, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST Location: CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room (9001) 365 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016  Participants: David Nemer,…

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  • “State of Exception?”: Protest, Politics and the Future of Peru

    Join the CLACLS for a panel discussion with José L. Rénique, Mark Rice, Renzo Aroni, and Myriam Nacimento about the current political crisis in Peru. This event is free and open to the publicRSVP here Livestreaming available through our Facebook page: CLACLSGC Participants: José Luis Rénique, Professor, Lehman College/CUNY (1990-2022) Mark Rice, Associate Professor, Baruch…

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  • Book Talk: “Operation Pedro Pan: Childhood in the US-Cuban Cold War”

    Operation Pedro Pan was the extraordinary undertaking by the Miami Catholic Diocese, federal and state offices, child welfare agencies, and anti-Castro Cubans to bring more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied children to the United States during the Cold War. Officially called the Unaccompanied Cuban Children’s Program, children without immediate family support in the United States—some 8,300…

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  • AfroLatin@s Now Conversaciones: Migrations & Black Erasure

    Join us for a celebration of three recently released books that all talk about AfroLatinidad and Migrations. We will have a conversation with Dr. Kaysha Corinealdi author or “Panama in Black,” Dr. Milagros Denis-Rosario author of “Drops of Inclusivity” and Dr. Marisel Moreno, the author of “Crossing Waters,” hosted by Manuel Mendez, President of the…

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  • Announcing The New Certificate Program in Latino Studies at Lehman College

    The Certificate Program in Latino Studies is a fully online trilingual certificate open to Lehman students and the general public. There are no prerequisites for this program, and courses will be held in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, allowing people with language and nationality barriers to apply, attend online courses, and complete the credits necessary for…

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