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Kudos to LALACS

Latin American scholars shine in the latest Kudos from the Office of Communications.
Change the subject

A new film tells the story of Dartmouth students who worked to change existing Library of Congress subject terminology describing undocumented immigrants.
Roma, Please

The Oscars generate annual interest in Hollywood, and Desiree Garcia and other Dartmouth professors weighed in on their favorites for the statuette
LALACS Publications and Awards

The following faculty have published or won awards for their work and scholarship in LALACS:
Alumni Story: Darlyn Hayes '00

Darlyn Rodriguez Hayes is a Senior Attorney at Microsoft, currently supporting the Universal Store teams delivering storefronts, infrastructure, code signing, distribution and security capabilities.
Undocumented?

Not sure what to do? Dartmouth has resources for you, and our faculty can help you navigate them.
Tepoztlán Institute Support

Dartmouth has agreed to a three year sponsorship in support of the Tepoztlán Institute, to foster transnational studies and conversations between scholars, activists, and artists across the Americas.
Alumni Story: Naomi Tomky '06

As someone who travels around the world learning about culture and cuisine, Naomi Tomky's LALACS degree gave her the base and background to understand how to consciously and respectfully write about other people's stories.
Students adapt artist JR's work

“Students created their own version of JR’s border wall installation in commemoration of having spent the term learning about and complicating the idea of the border and borderlands”, reports Desiree Garcia.
Comments by Peter DeShazo on Colombia election

"The specter of Colombia’s imploded neighbor, Venezuela, weighed heavily on the election", remarked DeShazo.

Recent Publications

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“Ramona in the City: Mexican Los Angeles, Dolores Del Rio, and the Remaking of a Mythic Story”

Desiree J. Garcia, Colin Gunckel, ed., Jan-Christopher Horak, ed., Lisa Jarvinen, ed., et al.

Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles: Origins to 1960 (Rutgers University Press 2019)
Campus Diversity: The Hidden Consensus

John Carey, Katherine P. Clayton, et al.

Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)
Operation Amigos: The Original Amateur Hour Goes to Mexico

Desiree J. Garcia

Quarterly Review of Film and Video (forthcoming)
A Just and Righteous Man: Eli Black and the Transformation of United Fruit

Matthew J. Garcia

The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review, Casden Institute, Purdue University Press, forthcoming, December 2018

Events

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Mar 25

12:00AM
Spring Term 2019
no location

Spring term begins
Apr 06

6:00PM
"Roma" screening
Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts

Netflix film "Roma" shown on the big screen, along with prescreening panel with Desiree Garcia, LALACS, and Jeffrey Middents '93, professor at American University.
Apr 19

4:30PM
Justin Torres book and movie "We the Animals"
Sanborn Library, Loew Auditorium

Torres will host a public reading and signing in Sanborn Library, April 19, 4:30 p.m. and a public screening of the movie in Loew Auditorium, Saturday, April 20, 7 p.m.
Apr 26

12:00AM
Cows, Land, and Labor
Hanover Inn

A multidisciplinary discussion covering carbon sequestration, the ethics of consumption, market management, and labor activism associated with bovine agriculture in the Northeast.
Apr 26

12:00AM
Cows, Land, and Labor
Hanover Inn day 1, Filene Auditorium day 2

A multidisciplinary discussion covering carbon sequestration, the ethics of consumption, market management, and labor activism associated with bovine agriculture in the Northeast.
Apr 27

12:00AM
Cows, Land, and Labor
Hanover Inn day 1, Filene Auditorium day 2

A multidisciplinary discussion covering carbon sequestration, the ethics of consumption, market management, and labor activism associated with bovine agriculture in the Northeast.