UNL’s Institute for Ethnic Studies will celebrate spring with a series of three lectures featuring nationally recognized speakers.

The series, which runs April 14-16, includes receptions with students, faculty, staff and the public. The lectures, which are free and open to the public, are 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Sheldon Museum of Art Auditorium. The “Spring Celebration” series is an annual event organized by the Institute for Ethnic Studies.

The “Spring Celebration” talks include:

April 14 — Edén Torres, associate professor of gender, women and sexuality studies and chair of Chicano and Latino studies at the University of Minnesota, “Latinas/os and the Mechanisms of Racial Capitalism.”

April 15 — Stephen Pitti, professor of history and American studies and director of ethnicity, race and migration at Yale University, “Latinas/os and the Public History of the United States.”

April 16 — Cristina Rodríguez, professor of law at Yale University, “Immigration Reform and the Political Value of Manufactured Crisis.” The talk is co-sponsored by UNL’s Humanities on the Edge lecture series.

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