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Alfredo Mirandé to offer keynote for Latino Heritage Month, October 11

The Latin American and Latino/a Studies program will join with the campus to honor cultures and heritage during Latino Heritage Month with speakers, a film, and a Day of the Dead celebration.
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Latino Heritage Month finale: Lilia Fernandez

The Latino Studies Program invites you to join us for our final event of our Latino Heritage Celebration. Lilia Fernandez November 11, 6:30 pm Stevenson 101 Presentation Title: Was the City...
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Latino Heritage Month features speaker on Latinos in Chicago

Latino Heritage Month will wrap up November 11 with a talk by author Lilia Fernandez on Mexicans living in Chicago.
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Latino Heritage Month documentary series

We are so excited to kick off Latino Heritage Month celebrations with our three-part documentary series Latino Americans (PBS), which chronicles Latino/a history, politics, heritage, and...
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Latino Heritage Month celebrated

Illinois State University’s Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program is joining forces with campus and community groups to celebrate Latino Heritage Month from mid-September to mid-October.
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Five questions with Yolanda Alonso, Latinx Heritage Month presenter: We Are the Latinos en BloNo: Our Stories in Words & Photographs

“We Are the Latinos en BloNo: Our Stories in Words & Photographs” is the art and work of Yolanda Alonso. The exhibit is part of Illinois State's celebration of Latinx Heritage Month and is...
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Immigration speakers help honor Latino/a Heritage Month

Latino/a Heritage Month will be celebrated at Illinois State University with talks on Latino immigration.
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Latino/a Heritage Month celebrated

Latino/a Heritage Month is being celebrated at Illinois State with speakers, a summit, a concert and a film festival.
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Hilda Lloréns to deliver keynote address during Latinx Heritage Month

Dr. Hilda Lloréns, a distinguished cultural anthropologist and decolonial scholar, will deliver this year’s keynote address, “Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Practices in Afro-Puerto...
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Latin American Latino/a Studies program creates a ‘Community of Belonging and Success’

As Illinois State’s student body becomes increasingly diverse with more first-generation students, a grassroots initiative to support the University’s newest Redbirds, called COBAS, is taking...
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