ILS 25th anniversary | Corbett Family Hall
Downes Ballroom What role does the Institute for Latino Studies play on campus today? After a brief welcome by ILS directors, faculty affiliated with Latino studies will discuss “The State of Latinx Studies today, at ND and Nationally.”

ILS 25th anniversary | Corbett Family Hall
Downes Ballroom This panel will feature four Latino Studies merit scholars funded by the Lozano family in a moderated conversation with Katherine Lane.

ILS 25th anniversary | Corbett Family Hall
Downes Ballroom Enjoy student group performances and a special collaboration with Irish Studies!

The ILS project brought together Mexican and Irish folk music and dance traditions to retell a unique and largely forgotten history of camaraderie between the Irish and the Mexicans circa 1848 in the expansion of the United States. This collaboration was led by Paloma Garcia-Lopez, Ethnomusicologist Victor Pichardo, and Artist Shannon Dunne to tie in students from Irish Tap Club, Ceili Band, the Ballet Folklorico Azul y Oro and Mariachi ND. This is a truly collaborative and exciting cultural experience for the ND community dedicated to the ILS stakeholders and champions here today celebrating the 25th anniversary.

ILS 25th anniversary | Basilica of the Sacred Heart
Basilica of the Sacred Heart Ignacio “Nacho” Lozano Jr. was born in San Antonio, Texas, on Jan. 15, 1927, just four months after his father Ignacio Sr. founded La Opinión. Upon his father’s passing in 1953, Lozano Jr. took over the newspaper and built it into the largest Spanish-language publication in the nation, and second only in circulation in Los Angeles to the Times. Lozano Jr.’s only hiatus from La Opinión came in 1976 when President Gerald Ford appointed him ambassador to El Salvador.

ILS 25th anniversary | McKenna Hall
Room B01 Past and current ILS Directors will participate in a discussion of the Institute’s mission, then and now, to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Institute of Latino Studies.

ILS 25th anniversary | McKenna Hall
Room B01 Recent graduates will share the transformative effect a supplementary major/minor in Latino Studies has had on their careers.

ILS 25th anniversary | McKenna Hall
Room 205 Hear from University leadership and Trustees while you mingle and enjoy the company of students, staff, faculty, and administrators. Wear your cocktail attire & dancing shoes.

ILS 25th anniversary | McKenna Hall
Room 205 This award-winning band has collaborated with the Smithsonian Museum and its lead singer is a professor of anthropology at Notre Dame.