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2018 LAS Conference

Democracy in the Americas and Immigration

April 19 - 20, 2018

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Keynote Speakers

Dr. Gerardo Munck

Gerardo Munck 

Professor of International Relations and Political Science
University of Southern California

Latin America’s Post-transitional Politics: Problems of and for Democracy in the New Century

 

Thursday, April 19, 10 a.m.-11 a.m.
Pfau Library, Room 5005 

Dr. Kent Wong

Kent Wong 

Director of the UCLA Labor Center and Professor of Asian Studies
University of California, Los Angeles

U.S. Immigrant Youth at a Crossroads

 

Thursday, April 19, 12 noon -1 p.m.
Pfau Library, Room 5005 

Dr. Shannon Speed

Shannon Speed 

Director of the American Indian Studies Center and Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles

Captive Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and the Settler Capitalist State

 

Friday, April 20, 11 a.m. -12 noon
Pfau Library, Room 5005 

Sponsors

Association of Latin American Studies (ALAS)

Center for International Studies & Programs (CISP)

College of Arts and Letters

Department of World Languages & Literatures

John M. Pfau Library

University Diversity Committee