CCNY celebrates Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022

The City College of New York’s Office of Student Life and Leadership Development celebrates Latinx/a/o Heritage Month with an Instagram tribute. Submissions are featured on their Instagram stories @ccnystudentlife.

The CCNY community can participate here by sharing what being Latinx/a/o means to them. There is also an opportunity to participate by suggesting an LHM honoree and a favorite song for their LHM playlist. 

Below is a list of LHM events:

• The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture’s 2022 Fall Sciame Lecture Series titled Border Crossings: Architecture and Migration in the Americas; 
• The Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education has a book presentation on Oct. 3 where Professor Susanna Ronsenbaum will chat with David Unger about his translation of “Mr. President,” ​a book by Nobel Prize Guatemalan Author Miguel Angel Asturias; They are also sponsoring The Americas Poetry Festival of New York on Oct. 12, 13, and 14; and
• CCNY Libraries presents Crossroads: Recent Latin American Cinema Festival from Oct. 6 to Nov. 10. Login here using User ID: SFC@CUNY and Password: N#RW9dB%Ma1q5piY(2HoRMLB, or see in-person at the Cohen Library Archives Reading Room. 

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