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Talk is part of the Presidential Lecture Series on Diversity and Latino Heritage Month
As a part of the Presidential Lecture Series on Diversity, Carlos E. Cortes, professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside, will give a talk 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sep. 23 in Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104.
The lecture, “The Mass Media and Latinos in the Age of Obama,” is the keynote address for Latino Heritage Month. Free and open to the public, the lecture is also sponsored by the Office of Intercultural Development. A book signing and reception will follow the lecture.
Cortes has lectured and consulted widely throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia on the implications of diversity for education, government, private business, and the mass media. Since 1990, he has served on the summer faculty of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education and since 1995 on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including most recently The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity (2000) and The Making – and Remaking – of a Multiculturalist (2002).
The Presidential Speaker Series on Diversity was initiated in 2000 to encourage intellectual discourse on diversity. Historian Douglas Brinkley, who authored a biography of Rosa Parks, was the inaugural speaker in the program. Other past lecturers have included Angela Davis, an activist and professor at University of California-Santa Cruz; David Levering Lewis, a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the MacArthur Foundation’s Genius Grant; and Oscar Arias Sanchez, former president of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.