Students interested in the Latin American \/ Latino Studies concentration within the Ethnic Studies minor may take a variety of courses housed in numerous departments within the College of Arts and Sciences.\u00a0 In addition to taking ETHS 252B: \u00a0Introduction to Latino\/a Studies and ETHS 253B: \u00a0Introduction to Latin American History, students concentrating in Latin American \/ Latino Studies may take courses in Political Science, History, English, Cognitive Science, Religious Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology, to name just a few disciplines.<\/p>\n
The ETHS Program partners with the Latino\/a student organization, La Alianza, and ETHS students have the opportunity to volunteer as mentors at institutions such as ESPERANZA and the Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center.\u00a0 ETHS students also serve as mentors at schools on the West Side with large Latino\/a populations, such as Lincoln West High School (Cleveland).<\/p>\n
Some of the distinguished lecturers and events ETHS has hosted include:<\/p>\n
2014— Richard Blanco, US Inaugural Poet, visited CWRU as part of the activities to celebrate the Hispanic Heritage Month. Poetry reading and talk. October 15.<\/p>\n
2014— Art show exhibition: Latino\u2019s artists at CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library. September 12\u2013October 24.<\/p>\n
2014— \u00a0\u201cJose Kozer at CWRU: poetry in exile\u201d. April 14\u201317.<\/p>\n
2014— \u201cA High Art: Soviet and Post\u2013Soviet School of Literary Translation dealing with the Latin American Fiction.\u201d A talk by Daria Sinitcyna, translator, critic and professor from the State University of Saint Petersburg, Russia. April 2\u20133\u2028.<\/p>\n
2014\u2014Merlinda Bobis, Filipina author and performance artist, Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.<\/p>\n
2013— \u201cCuba at Case.\u201d Official Transfer of 17 books donated by Vig\u00eda Publishing House to Kelvin Smith Library, after completion of the first study abroad in Cuba. Talk by Alfredo Zald\u00edvar, founder director of Vig\u00eda. April 19.<\/p>\n
2012— \u201cA Discourse on Method: How Borges Wrote.\u201d A talk by Daniel Balderston, Mellon Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh. October 11.<\/p>\n
2012— Photo\u2013exhibition \u201cCuba Today: A Soviet Inventory.\u201d<\/p>\n
2012–Damaris Punales-Alpizar Photographer, curator and presenter. October 15-November 2. Art Studio. Case Western Reserve University.<\/p>\n
2012— \u201cImaging a Matria: Women, Literature and Nation,\u201d \u00a0a talk by\u00a0Madeline Camara\u2013Betancourt, University of South Florida (ACES + Distinguished Lectureships). April 4-6.<\/p>\n
2012—\u201cToward a New History of the Cuban Cinema.\u201d Invited Speaker: Juan Antonio Garc\u00eda Borrero, Camag\u00fcey, Cuba. February 9-10.<\/p>\n
2012\u2014 Emma Sepulveda Pulvirenti, Chilean author and human rights atrapados: \u00a0historia oculta de un escate.<\/p>\n
2012\u2014Marjorie Agos\u00edn, Chilean poet and Human Rights Activiist, Recipient of the Honorary Degree at Case in 2014<\/p>\n
2010—\u201cRethinking the Caribbean.\u201d Invited Speaker: Mamadou Badiane, University of Missouri\u2013Columbia. November 2.<\/p>\n
2009– P\u00eda Barros, Chilean author and founder of the first underground feminist press\u00a0during the dictatorship of Pinochet.\u00a0 Pia directed two writing workshops\u00a0for the AP English Latina students at Lincoln West High School.<\/p>\n
2004 Emilio Betances, Professor of Sociology and Director of Latin American Studies, Gettysburg College<\/p>\n
2004 Gustavo P\u00e9rez Firmat, Professor of Spanish at Columbia University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Students interested in the Latin American \/ Latino Studies concentration within the Ethnic Studies minor may take a variety of courses housed in numerous departments within the College of Arts and Sciences.\u00a0 In addition to taking ETHS 252B: \u00a0Introduction to Latino\/a Studies and ETHS 253B: \u00a0Introduction to Latin American History, students concentrating in Latin American \/ Latino Studies may take courses in Political Science, History, English, Cognitive Science, Religious Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology, to name just a few disciplines.<\/p>\n
The ETHS Program partners with the Latino\/a student organization, La Alianza, and ETHS students have the opportunity to volunteer as mentors at institutions such as ESPERANZA and the Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n