Hispanic Heritage Month
September 15-October 15, 2025
Included below are Hispanic Heritage Month events* and programs and other inclusion and belonging events taking place at 吃瓜网.
*鈥淥ur Dimness Brightened in Her Smile鈥�: Sex, Race, and Latinidad in US Higher Education,
1900-1920鈥� with Pablo Mitchell
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Time: 12-1:15pm
Location: Murray-Aikins 2nd Floor
Description: Pablo Mitchell is Professor of History and Comparative American Studies and Affiliate
of the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Oberlin College (OH). Pablo鈥檚 publications
include History of Latinos: Exploring Diverse Roots (Greenwood Press, 2014); West
of Sex: Making Mexican America, 1900-1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2012); and,
Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920
(University of Chicago Press, 2005). Pablo鈥檚 most recent work has focused on challenging
the conventional wisdom which holds that Latinx folks are a recent addition to the
academy, not arriving on the college and university scene in the United States until
the 1960s or later.
Sponsored by: Dean of Student鈥檚 Office
*Dance Workshop
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2025
Time: 4-5pm
Location: Dance Studio 1
Description: Kicking Mis 搁补铆肠别蝉 Son Week off is the Dance Workshop. Baila with the Ramitas Latin
Dance Team y 搁补铆肠别蝉 where we will be learning bachata. Come show us your best moves.
All are welcome!
Sponsored by: 搁补铆肠别蝉
*Scavenger Hunt
Date: Monday, September 29, 2025
Time: All Week
Location: Campus Wide Event
Description: Everyday of the Week, 搁补铆肠别蝉 will be dropping riddles on our Instagram on where to
find prizes for our Scavenger Hunt. As a sneak peak, one of the prizes will be a Kali
Uchis鈥� Red Moon in Venus CD. Keep your eyes open!
Sponsored by: 搁补铆肠别蝉
*Karaoke Night
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Time: 7:30-9pm
Location: Wyckoff Center
Description: Canta con 搁补铆肠别蝉 at our Karaoke Night. Sing songs from your childhood or recent releases
from your favorite artists!
Sponsored by: 搁补铆肠别蝉
*Movie Night
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Time: 8:00-10:00pm
Location: Wiecking Basement
Description: Come watch some iconic episodes from La Rose de Guadalupe with us at the newly available
Wiecking Basement. We will have caramel and regular popcorn with salsa valentina.
As well as sliced fruit with limon and tajin!
Sponsored by: 搁补铆肠别蝉
*Arts and Crafts Night
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025
Time: 6:00-7:45pm
Location: Idea Lab
Description: Join 搁补铆肠别蝉 at the Idea Lab to participate in activities such as tote bag painting,
print making with yarn, and sculpture making with clay dough! Have the opportunity
to adopt a succulent plant and personalize the pot through painting.
Sponsored by: 搁补铆肠别蝉
*Convivio de Juegos
Date: Friday, October 3, 2025
Time: 3:00-5:00pm
Location: Moore Commons
Description: For our last event we will be having our Convivio de Juegos. 搁补铆肠别蝉 will be collaborating
with CSA and HerCampus for this event where we will have food catered from Taqueria
Guadalajara. We will have activities such as volleyball, soccer, loteria, and dominos.
Sponsored by: 搁补铆肠别蝉 and HerCampus
Mid-Autumn Festival with Asian Cultural Association and Chinese Cultural Club
Date: Friday, October 3, 2025
Time: 6:30-9pm
Location: The Spa in Case Center
Description: We will be celebrating our annual Mid Autumn festival with traditional food and drinks
along with mooncakes.
Sponsored by: Asian Cultural Association and Chinese Cultural Club
Memorial, Memory, and Meaning: A Performance with Artist Carrie Mae Weems
Date: Saturday, October 4, 2025
Time: 2pm
Location: Tang Teaching Museum
Description: 吃瓜网's 2025 McCormack Visiting Artist-Scholar in Residence will perform with pianist
Vijay Iyer and violinist Jennifer Koh.
Sponsored by: 吃瓜网's Office of Special Programs, Art Department, and Tang Teaching
Museum.
In It 10: Land Acknowledgement and Meaningful Action
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Time: 3-4pm
Location: Wyckoff Center
Description: Join us for an engaging conversation with Kay Ionataiewas Olan and Dr. Siobhan Hart
as they explore the local Indigenous history that shapes our shared sense of place
today.
Sponsored by: In It 10, MDOCS, and the Anthropology Department
Dialogues on Black Dimensions in Art
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2025
Time: 6-7pm
Location: Payne Room of the Tang
Description: A dynamic panel on Black liberation and racial justice with a focus on the Capital
Region鈥檚 longest-running Black arts collective, Black Dimensions in Art. Panelists
include artist Willie Cole, whose work is on view in All These Growing Things and
See It Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection; Saida Grundy,
Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Black Diasporic Studies at Boston
University, and Up to Us exhibiting artist ransome. They will discuss the Black Arts
Movement historically and its legacy today and the continued importance of the critical
work of creating and supporting Black arts organizations.
Sponsored by: In It 10 and The Tang Teaching Museum
鈥孲tories from the Rotinonshonni Longhouse, Past & Present
Date: Monday, October 13, 2025
Time: 6pm
Location: Filene Auditorium
Description: Join the 2025鈥�26 Elder in Residence Kay Ionataie:was Olan for an evening of storytelling
at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13, in Filene Auditorium. Presented on Indigenous Peoples Day,
the program highlights Rotinonshonni (Iroquois) stories past and present. Kay, a member
of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, has shared stories for more than 35 years.
Sponsored by: The 2025-2025 Elder-in-Residence is organized by the Skdimore Indigenization and
Decolonization Collective and co-sponsored by MDOCS, the Philosophy Department, and
Religious Studies
HispaniCAREER Connect
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
Location: Wyckoff Center
Description: Join us for a powerful panel and reception celbrating the voices of our Hispanic &
Latinx community, from students to alumni leaders - where experience meets inspiration.
Sponsored by: The Career Development Center and 搁补铆肠别蝉
The African Heritage Club GALA
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2025
Time: 5-7pm
Locaiton: 2nd Floor Murray-Aikins Dining Hall
Description: The AHA Gala is a vibrant celebration of African culture, showcasing the theme of
Afrofuturism. Join us for an unforgettable evening filled with delicious food, dynamic
skits, captivating dances, soul-stirring music, short films, and powerful poetry.
The gala promises a wonderful atmosphere where faculty, students, guests, and friends
come together to honor African heritage, embrace creativity, and celebrate community.
Sponsored by: African Heritage Association
*鈥淢茅xico Now: Storytelling, Power, and Resistance in the 21st Century鈥� with Guadalupe
Nettle and Juan Pablo Villalobos
Date: October 31 and November 1, 2025
Time: TBD
Location: Wyckoff Center
Description: This two-day colloquium will feature contemporary Mexican authors Guadalupe Nettel
and Juan Pablo Villalobos (a couple of his works have been adapted to film, Down the
Rabbit Hole and I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me, and are available on Netflix).
Sponsored by: The Dean of the Faculty鈥檚 Office
To add your event to this calendar, please email details to Mariel@skidmore.edu