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IU Theatre & Dance presents the twelfth annual At First Sight New Works Festival featuring new plays, student-written songs, panels, and community events. Don't miss the world-premiere musical 'Vox Pop! a Post-Democratic Musical' and outstanding short plays in At First Shorts.

The Museum of the Bible announced Monday that Carlos Campo, president of evangelical Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio, will become its new CEO in June.

The campus is invited to share food at the Latin American and Latino Studies Office at 6 p.m. Friday and then walk to the Fulbright Peace Fountain to light a candle for peace.

The University Bookstore will host Erika Almenara, associate professor of Spanish and associate director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, to talk about her research and book at 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Historian Julia Sarreal of Arizona State University will talk about the yerba mate and Argentina during a lecture at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, in Willard J. Walker Hall 427.

Ballet Nepantla is a professional dance company based in New York City that fuses contemporary dance with Mexican folklórico to enrich the cultural and historical meaning in traditional dancing.

Weinberg sophomore Isaiah DeLeon took Gender Studies 220: Sexual Subjects: Introduction to Sexuality Studies during his freshman fall with the intention of majoring in gender and sexuality studies. He attended office hours often. But after one lecture about dance and queerness, he went with a specific concern: Latinidad being mentioned primarily in connection with bars....

Cornell University Prof. Mary Pat Brady gave a keynote address about gentrification and exploitation at Northwestern’s Latina and Latino Studies Program Spring Symposium Thursday. The event launched a two-day conference titled “Urban Latinidades: Space, Place and Identity,” brought panelists from around the country to examine the identity and ethnography of Latinidad.  Brady teaches literature and...

A panel made up of Erika Almenara, Adriana Gonzalez and Xochitl Delgado Solorzano will celebrate Latinas from noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday at the World Languages and Digital Humanities Studio in J.B. Hunt 207.

The Latin American and Latino Studies Program is funding three awards up to $1,000 each to fund research in Latin America or research related to Latina/o studies and/or conference travel.