Humanities Forum speaker here Nov. 3

The Humanities Forum, formerly the European Studies Forum, hosts the first speaker of the semester, David Manuel Hernández, at 3:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 3, in the Student Center's Illinois Room.

Hernández is assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA. His presentation, "Genealogies of Latino Detention," explores the historical underpinnings of immigrant detention in the United States from the inception of the Bureau of Immigration in 1891 up to the current expansion of detention under the "war on terror."

The lecture is a joint venture with the program in Latino and Latin American Studies, This talk is part of the Humanities Forum's year-long theme, "Ethnicity and the Humanities."