2022 Latinx Heritage Month Celebration 

In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, which runs from September 15-October 15, 2022, Illinois State College’s Latin American and Latino/a Research (LALS) will characteristic talks from nationally recognized authors and students, a nationwide museum director, and lectures and panels with alumni, college, and neighborhood members discussing subjects surrounding id.  

All occasions are free and open to the general public. 

LALS is collaborating with the Metropolis of Bloomington of their first-ever Latinx Heritage Month celebration for a go to from best-selling creator Reyna Grande with a neighborhood speak based mostly on her ebook, A Ballad of Love and Glory. Discover out extra concerning the speak and the ebook membership Illinois State is planning round her go to.

“This 12 months’s Latinx Heritage Month is a critical reflection about borders as a social assemble. We search to handle the U.S./Mexico border, its historical past, and the enforcement of insurance policies that end in widespread struggling. We’re additionally celebrating rising voices of the Latino/a/x expertise which are talking forcefully and passionately about these points,” mentioned Professor Maura-Toro-Morn, director of the College’s LALS. “The occasions discover historical past, neighborhood, and tradition and cross-generational information. We’re additionally excited to deliver to campus a gaggle of Latinx alumni to talk with our college students about careers {and professional} points.”

The celebration will launch with scholar Dr. Michelle Téllez, speaking about her ebook, Border Ladies and the Ladies of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy within the Areas of Neoliberal Neglect. The month may also characteristic lectures by Director of the Nationwide Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Tradition Billy Ocasio, and Dr. Liv Stone. A sequence of Conversando Entre Nosotros all through the month will characteristic alumni, Illinois State college members, and neighborhood members.  

These with questions concerning the occasions can contact Lourdes Concepción Cabán at ldconce@ilstu.edu and Toro-Morn at mitmorn@ilstu.edu. 

Dr. Michelle Téllez  
“Border Ladies and the Ladies of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy within the Areas of Neoliberal Neglect”  
September 26, 2022 
7 p.m.  
Schroeder Corridor, room 238 

Dr. Michelle Téllez will inform the story of the neighborhood’s wrestle to carve out house for survival and thrive within the shadows of the U.S.-Mexico geopolitical border. Téllez is an affiliate professor within the Division of Mexican American Research on the College of Arizona. She focuses on transnational neighborhood formations, mothering, and gendered migration alongside the U.S./Mexico borderlands by means of her analysis, public scholarship, and digital humanities work.  

With an extended historical past in grassroots organizing tasks and community-based arts and efficiency, Téllez is the co-editor of The Chicana M(different)work Anthology: Porque Sin Madres No Hay Revolución (2019) and is the creator of Border Ladies and the Neighborhood of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy within the Areas of Neoliberal Neglect (2021). 

Discover out extra about Téllez’s speak.

Conversando Entre Nosotros 
A gathering with Latinx Alumni Community (LAN) 
September 30, 2022 
6-8 p.m.  
Multicultural Heart, ISU Campus  

“En la union está la fuerza” is a well-liked Latino saying. The key goal of this program is to develop and foster the private and institutional connections between the Latinx Alumni Affiliation, the Latin American and Latina/o Research program and the Affiliation of Latin American College students (ALAS). ISU alums will share profession alternatives, neighborhood management roles, and provide methods for fulfillment past faculty.   

Moderators:  
Professor Rocio Rivadeneyra, Illinois State’s School of Arts and Sciences 
Professor Maura Toro-Morn, Illinois State’s Latin American and Latino/a Research program 

Panelists: 

Christina Fontenelle ’14: Christina Fontenelle is a tri-lingual holistic well being coach and is the creator of Aligning Your Inside Self Meditation Journal.

She is the CEO and founding father of two psychological well being corporations, Fontenelle Artwork and Aligning Your Inside Self. 

Erika Jimenez ’21: Throughout her time on campus, Erika Jimenez was concerned in ALAS and SABE (Scholar Affiliation of Bilingual Schooling).

She served as a Preview Information for 2020-2021, and was a residential assistant in Manchester Corridor for a TLLC, Instructor Schooling Ground for 2 years. 

Simon Rodriguez Jr. ’13 : The son of immigrant mother and father from Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, and born in Aurora, Illinois, Simon Roriguez serves because the Youth Companies Supervisor for the Metropolis of Aurora.

A Fulbright scholarship recipient, Rodriguez was concerned with ALAS and Alpha Psi Lambda, and served as an admissions ambassador whereas at ISU. 

Lupe Garcia: Garcia is the present scholarship chair and neighborhood liaison for LAN and works for Heartland Financial institution. Whereas at ISU, Garcia participated in ALAS, was a residential assistant, and a member of Alpha Psi Lambda. 

Sonia Castañeda ’22: Sonia Castañeda is from Colombia, South America, the place she acquired her bachelor’s diploma in educating English as a Second Language (ESL), and likewise taught in her dwelling nation for a number of years. She is assistant principal at Dr. Maude A. Sanders Main College in Peoria, Illinois. 

Conversando Entre Nosotros: “What’s in a Label? Hispanic, Chicano/ Chicana, Latina/o, Latinx, Latine, or Not one of the Above”   
October 4, 2022  
7 p.m.  
McLean County Museum of Historical past   

This panel, ready in collaboration with the Metropolis of Bloomington, can be a dialog concerning the politics of labeling and the way labels are deployed to assemble neighborhood and id. The panel will discover the concept that one label will not be sufficient to grasp the range of points the neighborhood faces.  

The occasion is sponsored by Illinois State’s Latin American and Latino Research program and the Group of Latin American Workers (OLE), and the Metropolis of Bloomington’s Human Relations Workplace. 

Moderator:  
Professor Maura Toro-Morn, Illinois State 

Panelists:   
Dr. Rocio Rivadeneyra, affiliate dean at Illinois State’s School of Arts and Sciences  
Lourdes Concepción-Cabán, doctoral scholar at Illinois State  
Raylene Gomez, assistant director of Range and Inclusion at Illinois Wesleyan College   
Janeth Montenegro-Marquez, graduate scholar at Illinois State   
Dr. Alejandro Enriquez, affiliate professor at Illinois State   
 
Conversando Entre Nosotros: “Popularizing Anarchist Ethics: Autogestión in Mexico Metropolis”  
October 7, 2022  3 p.m.  
Williams Corridor, room 314, ISU campus    

Using intensive archival and oral historical past analysis, Dr. Liv Stone of Illinois State’s Division of Sociology and Anthropology will current a lecture on the precept of autogestión, which has come to indicate an moral apply of non-hierarchical group and anti-capitalist self-determination in Mexico Metropolis. Born in Algeria within the Sixties, the precept was popularized and reworked by means of the punk scene and scholar actions in Mexico Metropolis, and at last got here to be indifferent from its anarcho-syndicalist roots and re-articulated by means of city Zapatismo.  

The Ballad of Love and Glory with Reyna Grande  
October 15, 2022 
6-8 p.m.  
Miller Park Pavilion, 1020 S. Morris Ave. in Bloomington 

Internationally acclaimed creator Reyna Grande will give a Neighborhood E book Lecture based mostly on her current ebook, A Ballad of Love and Glory, set in the course of the Mexican American Struggle within the 1840s. 

Grande is the creator of the bestselling memoir, The Distance Between Us, (2012) the place she writes about her life earlier than and after she arrived in the US from Mexico as an undocumented baby immigrant. Her books have been adopted because the widespread studying choice by colleges, schools, and cities throughout the nation. 

Grande has been honored with an American E book Award, the El Premio Aztlán Literary Award, and the Worldwide Latino E book Award. In 2012, she was a finalist for the distinguished Nationwide E book Critics Circle Awards. In 2015 she was honored with a Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature and a Latino Spirit Award in 2021. The younger reader’s model of The Distance Between Us acquired a 2017 Honor E book Award for the Américas Award for Youngsters’s and Younger Grownup Literature and a 2016 Eureka! Honor Awards from the California Studying Affiliation, and an Worldwide Literacy Affiliation Youngsters’s E book Award 2017. 

Discover out extra concerning the Grande speak. 

Nationwide Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Tradition lecture 
October 18, 2022 
7 p.m.  
Williams Corridor, room 307, Illinois State College campus 

Billy Ocasio is the present president and chief government officer of the Nationwide Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Tradition in Chicago (NMPRAC), which is dedicated to the promotion, integration, and development of Puerto Rican arts and tradition. The museum presents exhibitions and programming created to reinforce the visibility and significance of the wealthy Puerto Rican arts custom.  

Earlier than arriving on the NMPRAC, Ocasio served because the Metropolis of Chicago alderman from the twenty sixth ward from 1994-2009. He was the chairman of the Human Relations Committee, and likewise served on committees for funds and authorities operations, training, power, environmental safety, public utilities, finance and housing/actual property. 

Hostile Terrain artwork exhibition   
November 1-4, 2022  
Artwork Gallery at Julian Corridor, room 97, Illinois State College campus 

Hostile Terrain is a participatory artwork exhibition organized by the Undocumented Migration Venture (UMP). The exhibit goals to light up the humanitarian disaster occurring at the US’ border, a disaster that has claimed over 3,000 lives because the Nineteen Nineties and continues to take action by means of the immigration enforcement technique referred to as “Prevention By way of Deterrence” (PTD). Because of heightened safety measures at city factors of entry, undocumented migrants have been funneled by means of extraordinarily treacherous environments, land dubbed as “Hostile Terrain” by U.S. Border Patrol.