Join us for Vamos a Leer, a recurring monthly book group that will explore how to teach about Latin America through children and young adult literature. We'll discuss how to use literacy as a tool for critically engaging students around social, economic, political, and cultural topics. The group will meet on the first Monday of every month at 5:00p.m. at Bookworks (with the exception of June and July, when we'll be taking time off to accommodate everyone's summer travel plans).

This month we'll be reading and reviewing Edwidge Danticat's novel "Krik? Krak!", a moving set of short stories that "encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. They tell of women who continue loving behind prison walls and in the face of unfathomable loss; of a people who resist the brutality of their rulers through the powers of imagination" (Amazon).

All are welcome and encouraged to attend this free event. Please pre-register by contacting the LAII at kphilipp@unm.edu or (505) 277-7047. If you want to know more about how to connect Latin America to literacy in your classroom, visit our Vamos a Leer blog.

The Latin American Studies (LAS) Program will hold its Spring 2012 Convocation, honoring those undergraduate and graduate students who will receive LAS degrees in May and August. Keynote speaker TBA.