The César E. Chávez Undergraduate Research Symposium gives students in the Latino Studies Program the chance to engage in their own interdisciplinary research and share it with the community.

Held biannually, the Chávez Symposium allows students to conduct research focusing on Latinxs in the U.S. and in transnational contexts. Undergraduate students undertake a sustained research project of their choosing, culminating in a two-day symposium to showcase their research. The Chávez Symposium bridges undergraduate, graduate, and faculty research by partnering each undergraduate participant with a mentor who helps plan and directs the research.

Students can build on a previous class project or explore a new idea, and will collaborate with their faculty member or graduate student mentor to develop their projects. At the symposium, students will share their work through research papers, multimedia, poster presentations, or other forms appropriate to their chosen area of study, in an engaging and welcoming environment.

Students selected to participate in the symposium will create a research plan with their mentor, attend a workshop on presentation skills and poster-making to prepare for the symposium, participate in the symposium, and will receive a $250 stipend to assist in the completion of their projects.

Topics can include but are not limited to:

• Education
• Migration
• Diasporas
• Media
• Gender and Sexuality
• Cultural Production
• Latino Spiritualities
• Literature
• Health
• Public Policy
• Activism
• Social Justice
• Identity Politics
• Building community
• Citizenship
• Race and Class
• Oral History
• Immigration
• Border Theories
• Art and Creative Writing

The Chávez Undergraduate Research Symposium will take place February 29th and March1st, 2024.

If you have questions, please contact us at latino@indiana.edu.