Date: Feb. 18, 2008
Contact: Carol Connelly, Director, Media & Communication Services, ext. 5267, cconnelly@pnc.edu

PNC Black History Month Event and Travel Program Explore Peru

Westville – Purdue University North Central will honor Black History Month with an event on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. in Library-Student-Faculty Building Assembly Hall, Room 144, "Blackness and Beauty in Peru: The Influence of the Media on Beauty Norms," presented by Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Golash-Boza, has a joint appointment in Sociology and American Studies at the University of Kansas and is a post-doctoral fellow in African-American Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She teaches courses on race in the U.S. and Latin America and on globalization and immigration. Golash-Boza has conducted ethnographic research in Peru that focused on racial identity and discourses, collective memory and social whitening among Peruvians of African descent. She has also researched immigration and the Latino/a community in the United States and has had her work published in the ”International Migration Review,” “Social Forces” and “Ethnic and Racial Studies.” She is working on a book-length manuscript, tentatively titled: “Yo Soy Negro: Discourses of Blackness in Peru.”

The PNC Travel/Study Program is also hosting the course, “Social and Ecological History of the Andes” in June that will take participants to the Peruvian Andes to see its natural wonders, majesty and mystery.
Taught by Dr. Kenneth Kincaid, assistant professor of History, the course is open to PNC students and others who want to learn more about the land, people, the indigenous culture, architecture and history of Peru. This may be taken as a credit, or non-credit course.

From June 9 to 17 students will go to the highlands of Peru - Lima, Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo.
From June 17 to 23 Students may take and optional trip to the northern coast of Peru - Chiclayo, Trujillo. Students will travel to ecological reserves, precolonial ruins and get first-hand observation of an excavation directed by the Bruning Museum in Lambayeque, Peru.

The trip includes a visit to the “Lost City of the Inca” and students will learn why it’s known as the “Gateway to the Sun.” The group will return home on June 24.

To register or to obtain Information about the trip to Peru, contact the PNC Office of Continuing Education, contact PNC - Porter County at (219) 531-4200, or visiit http://www.pnc.edu/ce. Persons with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact PNC – Porter County.

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