Stone Center Graduate Student Summer Research Symposium 2026
The Stone Center is excited to host the Summer Field Research Symposium. Graduate Students who received grants this past summer through the Stone Center for field research, language study, or technical training will be making brief, informal presentations on their summer grant-funded experience. Join us to learn about the fascinating research and study that Latin Americanist Graduate Students across the university are undertaking. It will be a hybrid in-person/online Zoom format.
Café y Pastelitos
It's National Latine Heritage Month! Join us to hear from Latine professionals about their careers and experiences. All presentations are in the Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A.
Tuesday, September 29 | 11:00 a.m.
Gretel Acosta, PhD - Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, School of Liberal Arts
Café y Pastelitos
It's National Latine Heritage Month! Join us to hear from Latine professionals about their careers and experiences. All presentations are in the Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A.
Tuesday, September 29 | 11:00 a.m.
Gretel Acosta, PhD - Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, School of Liberal Arts
Café y Pastelitos
It's National Latine Heritage Month! Join us to hear from Latine professionals about their careers and experiences. All presentations are in the Greenleaf Conference Room, Jones Hall 100A.
Tuesday, September 29 | 11:00 a.m.
Gretel Acosta, PhD - Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, School of Liberal Arts
Lecture in a Bar: A Historian's Favorite Youth-Led Protests
Grab a drink, learn about youth-led protest movements from historian Emily Glankler (Anti-Social Studies) and support immigrants.
New Orleans Teacher Meet-Up: Rare Artifacts and Stories in the Classroom
Join Emily Glankler for dinner, drinks, & discussion on teaching with artifacts from the Doris Stone Latin American Library.
Education can be a lonely field so let's get together to build community, eat/drink/commiserate, and discuss how to incorporate stories (both fictional and factual) into our lessons!
Dinner, drinks, and a small gift are included! All teachers and educational professionals are welcome but the discussion will be focused primarily on history and social studies topics.