LAS Distinguished Professor Lecture and Award Ceremony: Dr. María de los Ángeles Torres
November 10, 2022
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location
SCE Cardinal Room (329)
Address
750 S Halsted St, Rm 329 (Cardinal Room), Chicago, IL 60607
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LAS DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO STUDIES
María de los Ángeles Torres
The Elusive Present: Democracy’s Time in Cuban Thought
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2022 • 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. or via YouTube
María de los Ángeles Torres is an LAS Distinguished Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has written extensively on Latinos, Cuba and Cuban exiles’ politics and identity, immigration, and culture. She has recently completed a manuscript titled The Elusive Present: Democracy’s Time in Cuban Thought and is working on a project on the impact of Cuba’s war in Angola on Cubans on the island and abroad.
Professor Torres was Director of the UIC Latin American and Latino Studies department from 2005 to 2013 and of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research from 2013 to 2018. She is presently working on two programs funded by the Mellon Foundation that support graduate students in Latino Humanities. She is on the editorial boards of the academic journals The US Latina & Latino Oral History and Diálogo.
She is an interdisciplinary scholar who has also contributed to art history projects including compiling a virtual collection of One Hundred Years of Chicago Latino Art and Chicago Latino Virtual Gallery. She is a frequent media commentator on US/Cuba relations and immigration.
Professor Torres has a long history of public service including serving as Director to Mayor Harold Washington’s Commission on Latino Affairs, and as advisor to the Obama Transition team on Latin American issues and on President Biden’s Higher Education team. She was a board member of the Illinois Humanities Council and is presently on both the Civic Committee for the Goodman Theatre and on Miami Freedom Project’s board of advisors.
Professor Torres is the author of In the Land of Mirrors: The Politics of Cuban Exiles in the United States and The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the U.S., and the Promise of a Better Future and the co-author of Citizens in the Present: Civically Engaged Youth in the Americas. She edited By Heart/De Memoria: Cuban Women’s Journeys in and Out of Exile and co-edited U. S. Latinos, Latin Americans, and the Paradox of Interdependence and Global Cities and Immigrants: A Comparative Study of Chicago and Madrid.
Please RSVP to LASEvents@uic.edu by November 7, 2022.
Date posted
Oct 6, 2022
Date updated
Sep 13, 2023