'Latino America, Latino Montana' program set for Nov. 10

Press release

Havre Hometown Humanities “Faces of Montana” will host the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau program “Latino America, Latino Montana” with Montana State University professor Bridget Kevane Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. in the Human Resources Development Council Fireside Room, 2229 5th Ave.

There is no charge but donations of non-perishable food items for the Havre Food Bank are appreciated and can be brought to the program.

Kevane, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is professor and program director of Latin American and Latino Studies in the Department of Modern

Languages and Literatures at Montana State University. She has published several books and many articles on Latino culture, politics and identity.  

Kevane’s program will cover Montana’s 200-year-old Latino history and the more recent arrival of Latinos to the state. Who are Hispanics or Latinos? What is immigration reform? Why should we care? Latinos in America — Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, and Mexicans — have had a long and important role in the shaping of the United States. Montana is no exception.

The goal of Hometown Humanities is to support the particular cultural interests of a Montana community, and by doing so explore the capacity of the humanities to enrich lives, foster inquiry, and stimulate and inform conversations about the human experience.

It offers a year’s worth of humanities-based cultural programs from the Humanities Montana catalog of  public speakers scheduled so that every few weeks in the schools, the Havre-Hill County Library, Montana State University-Northern and various locations around the community.

Partial funding for the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau program is provided by a legislative grant from Montana’s Cultural Trust. In addition to Humanities Montana, organizations supporting Havre Hometown Humanities include the National Endowment for the Humanities, Stockman Bank and the Havre Daily News.

For more information call  265-2724.