20 años de fotos y recuerdos
In the Spring of 2003, the Purdue University Latino Cultural Center opened its doors. This year we are commeorating the event with 20 años de fotos y recuerdos, and taking this opportunity to look back at the contributions of the Latino, Latina, and Latinx communities at Purdue. We are collaborating with campus partners on exciting projects and programming to commemorate 20 years of the Latino Cultural Center.
March Events
Yours/Ours: El palimpsesto colonizado deshecho (The Colonial Palimpsest Undone) - Carlos Castro Arias
March 27-May 6 |10AM-7PM, Monday-Saturday|Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Stewart Center
March 30 | 5:30PM | Reception featuring Carlos Castro Arias | Ringel Gallery, Stewart Center
Colombian artist Carlos Castro’s work invites conversation about reframing constructed narratives in public spaces. Castro’s interdisciplinary work creates new meanings and recontextualizes monuments to better understand suppressed histories. Carlos Castro is an Associate Professor of Painting and Printmaking at San Diego State University, and his solo exhibition celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Latino Cultural Center.
Carlos Castro will visit campus on March 20th for an event; more information to come.
Co-Sponsored with Purdue University Galleries
Día de la Familia
Saturday, April 1st, 2023 | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM | Latino Cultural Center
On April 11th, 2003, the Latino Cultural Center opened its doors at Purdue University. Since then, every year, we recognize our history and communities with a celebration that gathers our familias and makes us reflect on our accomplishments and look toward the future.
Join us to celebrate our 20th anniversary at this year's Dia de la Familia. Live performances, family-friendly activities, food and much more.
Siempre Selena: Preserving a Latinx Icon
Monday, April 10th | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM | Krannert Auditorium
403 W State St, West Lafayette, IN 47907
Co-Sponsored with the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, the Honors College and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Center
Though she's been gone for over a quarter of a century, Selena seems more popular than ever. The subject of podcasts and a Netflix series, Selena remains an enduring icon of Latinx admiration and aspiration. This talk explores why Selena is experiencing such a remarkable revival event in recent years and questions if she has ever really ben that far from our thoughts or our playlists.
Deborah is the author of the award-winning critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke 2009) and of the poetry collections, This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA 2020). She has published widely on topics including Black and Latinx performance, poetry of war and witness, feminist elegy, and the role of divas in American culture. Her poetry, essays, and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, National Public Radio, Boston Review, The Georgia Review, Feminist Studies, and elsewhere.
Deborah is a Co-Founder and for a decade (2009-2019) served as Co-Director of CantoMundo, a national organization for Latinx poets. She is a founding member of the Poetry Coalition and currently serves as a board member of CLMP: Community of Literary Magazines and Presses and LitNet: The Literary Network.