LACSI's 2024 Hispanic Heritage Month Calendar

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We are thrilled to share the 2024 Hispanic Heritage Month Calendar with you, a celebration that kicks off this Thursday, September 12.  

Please share the calendar widely and make sure to attend any or all of these exciting events. 

Special thanks to the several organizers who contributed to the calendar by sharing their events; to LACSI's co-sponsors; to Courtney Deans , LACSI's Student Worker, for designing the calendar; and Carla York, LACSI's administrative assistant, for her crucial support in organizing LACSI's main events. 

The UGA Office of Research (OoR) has named Dr. Krista Capps, Associate Professor in the Odum School of Ecology and LACSI Core Faculty, as one of four 2024-25 Research Faculty Fellows.

The program prepares faculty for future Leadership Roles at the Office of Research. Many congratulations on this achievement, Dr. Capps! 

A warm welcome to Courtney Deans, LACSI Student Worker during the fall semester of 2024.

Courtney is a first generation American of Jamaican descent, and a senior majoring in French at UGA. Precisely, shehas enjoyed her time at LACSI due to the Institute’s focus on the region where her family is from.

With a high degree of professionalism, Courtney has been managing our social media and web presence, and providing diligent organizational research support.

Thank you, Courtney!

Join us this Friday, September 13, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the 2024 LACSI Open House & Grand Opening of the Dancing With Devils: Latin American Masks Traditions exhibition. 

There will be free food; a Latin American music performance by Rajath Prabhakar (piano) and Jen Edwards (violin) from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music; and student organizations, such as, the Hispanic Students Association (HSA), Latinos Invested in the Students of Tomorrow (LISTo), and Students for Latinx Empowerment (SLE) will share their activities and projects with the public.

The event is free and open to the public. Looking forward to seeing you then!

This exhibit presents a collection of Latin American masks from the Center for Latin American Studies’ Andean and Amazonian Cultural Artifacts Collection at Ohio State University. Alongside are photographs of Diablada de Píllaro (Devil Dance of Píllaro) in the Ecuadorian province of Tungurahua taken by Ohio State Multimedia Journalism Lecturer Leonardo Carrizo. The majority of masks on display were donated by Ohio State alumnus Mark Gordon (The Ohio State University Libraries).

Dates and Locations:
Grand Opening: LACSI's Yellow House (290 S. Hull St.)
Friday, September 13 at 3:00 PM

Exhibition at LACSI's Yellow House (290 S. Hull St.)
Friday, September 13 to Friday, September 20  
Monday, October 7 to November 22, 2024. 

Exhibition at Hendershot’s (237 Prince Ave.)
Monday, September 23 to Monday, September 30, 2024

An informative presentation titled, "Discovering Our Roots: over a Century of Hispanic Students at UGA" by Dr. John Alvarez-Turner.  

This is an opportunity for students to sit down, relax, and learn about the long term presence of Hispanic students at UGA.  

This lecture is organized by Latinos Invested in the Students of Tomorrow (LISTo) and co-sponsored by LACSI in honor of the 2024 Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations.

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Department of Romance Languages invite UGA faculty, students, and community members to join a reception and celebration of the release of The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges (September 2024, Oxford University Press) edited by Dr. Nora Benedict (UGA, Department of Romance Languages) and Dr. Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh, Department of Spanish and Portuguese).

LACSI is a proud co-sponsor of the fifteenth edition of LatinxFest, organized by Dignidad Inmigrante in Athens.

Music, Dance, Food, Local and Georgian artists will come together to celebrate Latinx heritage in Athens, GA.

Two years after the 1973 CIA-assisted coup overthrew the democratically-elected president of Chile, Kathleen Osberger, a recent graduate and lay volunteer, from the University of Notre Dame, traveled to Santiago, to teach in a Catholic grade school. Upon her arrival she was told a secret: the religious and lay women she would live with sheltered dissidents in the cross-hairs of Pinochet’s secret police.

I Surrender: a Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 2023 (Orbis Books, 2023) depicts her harrowing experience, the solidarity of the Chilean people, and the transformational role of nuns and clergy dedicated to serving the poor and persecuted.

Prof. Patricia Richards (Institute for Women's Studies and Sociology) will moderate the event. 

Join LACSI's Dawg Day of Service to support local nonprofits.

A movie showing by the
Pride Center to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month

The 15th annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas will be held at the University of Georgia, September 26-28, 2024.

"The Queer Birth Project: Feminist Interdisciplinary Methods and LGBTQ+ Family-Building in the 21st Century"

"Equality Projects: Theorizing the Organizational Production of Equality in the People’s Hotel"

Three Sisters
(Maize, beans and squash)

Mexican sunflowers

Passion vine hosting fritillary caterpillar

As summer winds down in the Latin American Ethnobotanical Garden , pollinator activity is at its peak. Come by and take a moment to observe the busy bees, butterflies, and caterpillars in action. Over the next month, the garden will burst into vibrant displays of marigolds and zinnias as the days grow shorter and the nights become cooler. September is the time when this green space becomes a true gem of campus, showcasing its best colors and natural beauty.

- Nunally Benzing  (LAEG Curator)