The Latino Studies Program at Cornell University wraps up its fall speaker series with three compelling public lectures and readings.

• On Friday, Nov. 10, Ginetta Candelario will deliver a talk titled "'The Africans Have no History': Museum Representations of Dominican Identity," at 4:30 p.m. in 142 Goldwin Smith Hall. Candelario, professor of sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies at Smith College, will offer insights into the relationship between Latina/o and African American understandings of Afro Latina/o racial identity and identification. Using specific museum exhibits as case studies, among them the Anacostia Museum's 1995 exhibitBlack Mosaic, she will examine the challenges museums face in communicating the experience of Afro-Latinos and their failure to link the origins of African American history to Latin America.
• On Monday, Nov. 13, two guest faculty from SUNY Binghamton will share the spotlight in a presentation of poetry and scholarly discourse beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D.White House:

Professor Lisa Yun, associate professor of English at SUNY Binghamton, will read from her poetry collection, Havana Suite: Poetry and Oral History of Barrio Chino.

Ricardo Laremont professor of sociology, political science and Africana studies, SUNY Binghamton, will deliver a talk titled "The Relationship Between Chinese Coolies and African Slaves in 19th Century Cuba."

Laremont and Yun will discuss Asian immigration to the Caribbean, Asian-Latino populations in the U.S. and their political/social commonalties with the larger Asian American population.

For more information about these events, contact Marti Dense, administrative manager, Latino Studies Program, 434 Rockefeller Hall, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853; telephone: (607) 255-3197; fax: (607) 255-2433; or e-mail: mfd1@cornell.edu.