CHAT Fellow Book Talk with Diego Luis, 3/27

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The Center for Humanities at Tufts invites you to a special event on March 27. Dr. Diego Luis will be introducing his newest book, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History. This event will take place in the Varis Lecture Hall (Room 155) in the Granoff Music Center. 

Diego Javier Luis is a professor of colonial history, as well as the history of Latin America and the Pacific World. He is a faculty member of the Tufts History Department and the Department of Race, Colonialism and Diaspora. His newest book, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History, traces both free and enslaved Asian mobility from the Philippines to Mexico, Central America, Peru, and Spain, from the sixteenth to early-nineteenth centuries. It is available now from Harvard University Press. 

All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served. For questions, contact: humanities@tufts.edu.