Join Arlene Dávila, Professor of Anthropology at New York University (NYU), and the founding director of the Latinx Project at NYU, for this year’s annual Mellon Lecture.

Dávila states, “In this talk I draw from my twenty year old history as a reluctant anthropologist and my multiple publications on the cultural politics of Latinidad to argue that anthropology has much to learn from Latinx and ethnic studies to remain relevant in the twentieth first century. Centering these fields can lead the discipline to get over its fetishized concern with “peoples and cultures” and move us to more fully engage with racism in the discipline, the US academy and society at large.”

Dávila will also weave examples from her work with The Latinx Project, an interdisciplinary center at NYU, to highlight the kind of praxis, digital humanities, and arts and culture based initiates that are so necessary for empowerment in American universities beyond the bounds of any single discipline.

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