Tag: Latin America
When the Industrial Physics Forum (IPF) begins Sept. 28 in Brazil, NIU students and faculty will join in the conversation – that is, if Anna Quider has anything to say about it. Quider, NIU’s new director of federal relations, is spreading the word about the conference that aims to scientifically drive economic development in Latin...
SOL (Supporting Opportunities for Latinos) united Latino organizations Thursday, Oct. 31, to teach NIU students about Latino heritage through “El Día de los Muertos” – the Day of the Dead. The event took place in the Latino Resource Center on Garden Road. “At the university that I used to attend, we made El Día de los...
NIU’s third annual Latino Film Festival returns Tuesday, April 9, and continues through Thursday, April 18. This year’s festival will focus on drugs and politics in Latin America. First on the docket is the award-winning documentary “Pecados de Mi Padre,” which will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the Cavan Auditorium of Graham Hall....
NIU will host the 41st annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory this weekend. The meeting will take place Saturday, Feb. 23, and Sunday, Feb. 24, in Cole Hall, recently remodeled to include the NIU Anthropology Museum. In conjunction with the meeting, there will be an exhibit on Andean traditions; weekend hours...
NIU’s Center for Latino and Latin American Studies has announced the lecturers for its March Colloquium Series Speakers. Tuesday, March 8 Katherine M. Donato, professor and chair of Sociology and director of the Program for Medicine, Health & Society at Vanderbilt University, will present her lecture, “How Many Women? How Many Men?: Gender in International Migration,” at noon in the...
