Lab celebrates Cinco de Mayo with talk today

Novelist, retired librarian, sculptor and santero Orlando Romero will help the Laboratory celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a lecture at 11:30 this morning in the Physics Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3.

Romero's presentation is "Multiculturalism, Colonial Style: Did your great-great-great-great grandpa really look like that?" The presentation provides a historical and genealogical look at our ancestors and goes beyond stereotypes to help individuals recognize the connections of New Mexicans to Spain, France, Ireland, Africa and Native America. The presentation discusses why New Mexicans developed many of the cultural aspects it did, said Romero. In addition to the one-hour lecture, a short video also will be shown.

The talk is sponsored by the Hispanic Diversity Working Group, the Laboratory's Diversity/Affirmative Action Board and the Diversity (DVO) Office.

The talk can be accessed on desktop computers via the Internet using Real Media Player and IPTV technology.

For more information, see Tuesday's Daily Newsbulletin.

--Kathryn Ostic

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