hispanic
BSC
heritage month
September 15
through October 15
Birmingham-Southern College
Hispanic Heritage Month recognizes the contributions made and the important presence of Hispanic and
Latino Americans to the United States and celebrates the group’s heritage and culture. Hispanics have had a profound
and positive influence on our country through their strong commitment to family, faith, hard work, and service.
They have enhanced and shaped our national character with centuries-old traditions that reflect the multiethnic and
multicultural customs of their community.
Friday, September 26th
Global Gatherers Celebrate South America!
BSC House (Former International House on the end of sorority row),
5 pm – 6 pm
Nathan Boldt and Abhishek Purohit will share their study abroad
experiences in Chile and Ecuador. There will be music and traditional
South American foods. Open to the campus community.
Saturday, September 27th
12th Annual Fiesta!
Linn Park, 12 pm – 8 pm
Fiesta gives Alabamians a unique opportunity to experience the
best of Latin American countries in their own backyard! Patrons can
journey through over 20 represented countries and experience their
people, music, art, food and culture.
(Free tickets are available in the Office of Multicultural Affairs on a
first come first serve basis.)
Admission to Fiesta is $5 per person in advance and $8 at the
gate. Children 12 and under are admitted for free. Donations to the
scholarship fund at Fiesta are encouraged at the event.
Tuesday, October, 14,
11 am – 12 noon, SGA room
Coffee Hour: Latin Style
Volunteering in the Birmingham Hispanic Community
Come and learn various ways to get involved with Birmingham’s
Hispanic community during coffee hour. Representatives from
HICA, Literacy Council of Central Alabama, Alabama Coalition for
Immigration Justice, and Cahaba Valley Health Care will be available
to discuss their work within the community.
*Thursday, October 16th
Common Hour (11 am), Norton Theater
Speaker: Sonia Nazario
Enrique’s Journey
Sonia Nazario has spent more than 20 years reporting and
writing about social issues, most recently as a projects reporter
for the Los Angeles Times. She has won numerous national
journalism and book awards tacking some of this country’s most
intractable problems: hunger, drug addiction, and immigration.
In 2003, her story, Enrique’s Journey, on a Honduran boy’s
struggle to find his mother in the U.S. won more than a dozen
awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and
the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo MartinezMarquez Award for Overall Excellence. Expanded into a book,
Enrique’s Journey became a national bestseller, won three book
awards, and became required reading for incoming freshman at
62 colleges and scores of high schools across the U.S.
Ms. Nazario will be available to sign copies of her book after the
presentation.
*Thursday, October 23rd
Common Hour (11 am), Norton Theater
Lourdes Sánchez-López, Ph.D.,
The Diversity of the Hispanic Culture and how it Differs from
Region to Region
Lourdes Sánchez-López, (Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from
the University of Jaén, Spain) is tenured Associate Professor
of Spanish and founding director of the Spanish for Specific
Purposes Certificate program at UAB. She is co-author of
Pueblos, Intermediate Spanish in Cultural Contexts (Cengage,
2006) and publishes regularly in various scholarly national
and international journals.
*Cultural Credit Events
For more information, please contact the Office of Multicultural Affairs at 205-226-4733.