Celebrating 30 years of LLACS Book Talk Series: Dr. Isabel Martinez

Tue Feb 18 2025 at 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm UTC-05:00

Renaissance Park Office Building | Boston

Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies
Publisher/HostLatinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies
Celebrating 30 years of LLACS Book Talk Series: Dr. Isabel Martinez
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Isabel Martinez gives a talk about her most recent book "Crossing Digital Fronteras: Rehumanizing Latinx Education and Digital Humanities".
About this Event

(Virtual attendees will receive Zoom link the day before the event)

Founded in the 1990s, the Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (LLACS) program at Northeastern returns to the Fall 2024 semester with the "Celebrating 30 Years of LLACS Scholarship: A Book Talk Series". This speaker series centers Northeastern LLACS faculty discussing their recent publications.

This event with feature Dr. Isabel Martinez. Isabel is a Latinx youth immigration scholar whose research has primarily focused on the transnational lives of unaccompanied immigrant teenagers from Mexico/Central America. She is currently developing the New York Latinx Comedy Project, an oral history project that situates Latinx voices within a history of the NYC stand-up comedy industry. She is the founding director of the Unaccompanied Latin American Minor Project (U-LAMP) and is the Fall 2022 CMAS Visiting Scholar at UH.

We will be celebrating her most recently published book, Crossing Digital Fronteras: Rehumanizing Latinx Education and Digital Humanities (State University of New York Press). Crossing Digital Fronteras is about liberatory possibilities and digital technologies in the classroom. The book centers critical Latinx Digital Humanities to illustrate the ways college faculty and Latinx students harness digital tools to engage in "messy" yet essential active learning and knowledge production in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Latinx Studies courses. With increasing Latinx student enrollment and a growing need for the humanities in our complex world, it is essential that HSIs and instructors integrate twenty-first-century tools into their teaching practices to truly "serve" Latinx students and communities. This book definitively inserts Latinx Digital Humanities into broader conversations about best practices at HSIs, on the one hand, and digital humanities and social justice, on the other. Most importantly, it provides practical examples of innovative, rehumanizing digital pedagogies that give students the liberatory learning they deserve.

Please join us for this highly relevant and important discussion, as well as ¡CELEBRACIÓN! of Dr. Martinez’s exciting book.

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Renaissance Park Office Building, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston, United States

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