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This year's Hispanic Heritage Month schedule includes a multitude of exciting events, including music, lecture, discussion, comedy, and more. Learn more about the history of Hispanic Heritage Month here.

Download a PDF copy of the full 2008 Schedule of Events for Hispanic Heritage Month

Some of the events we'd like to highlight are:

September 18th: "World War I and the Federación Libre de Trabajo Agricultural Workers' Campaign in Puerto Rico" -- In keeping the political mobilization topic of this NHHM celebration, Professor Dionicio Valdés (History, Michigan State University) will examine an unexplored 1915 first great workers' strike and its connections with the formation of the Socialist Party in Puerto Rico. -- 3PM, Ballantine 004, Free to public

September 20th: Festival Latino! -- This festival is a free outdoor concert open to all campus and community. Held in IU's Dunn Meadow, the concert consists of Latino music groups. This year the festival opens with Grammy Award Nominee group Sones de Mexico. The event also provides the opportunity for individuals to visit the food, cultural activities and information booths set up throughout the meadow area. The festival is part of the National Hispanic Heritage Month celebration and education programs. -- Noon to 6PM, Dunn Meadow, Free to public.

October 2nd: "Long Island Iced Latina" (A Brown Comedy) -- In "Long Island Iced Latina" Marga Gomez pours a long tall drink of cultural confusion, chronic virginity and mother daughter instability. What begins as a hilariously dark memoir of Gomez as the only brown girl in a white high school morphs into an intoxicating manifesto for Latinos who can't speak Spanish, suck at Salsa, and suffer from Blonditis. "We're everywhere." Gomez claims. "And we vote!" Marga Gomez won the GLAAD Award for Off Broadway theater, and The Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Actress . "Long Island Iced Latina" Gomez's newest work, sold out Joe's Pub as part of Teatro Stagefest in 2007 in New York City. Marga has been seen on Comedy Central, Showtime, HBO, LOGO and PBS. -- 8PM, John Waldron Arts Center (122 S Walnut St), Free to IU students; $5 to public.

News from Aranjuez, Spain Summer 2008

Read blog entries and watch YouTube videos of this year's overseas studies program in Aranjuez, Spain.

Latino Studies is proud to offer an UNDERGRADUATE MINOR

Our multidisciplinary courses introduce students to the latest, cutting-edge research on the fast-growing and diverse Latino population of the United States. We invite you to hear what students say about Latino Studies. Get to know our faculty and their research. And read a message from our director.