Members of the public will have a chance to meet historian and sociologist Gilberto Cárdenas during an upcoming visit to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Cárdenas will give a presentation, “Visualizing Mexican Migration: Historical Context and Contemporary Flows,” starting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 25, at UALR’s Stella Boyle Smith Auditorium.

He received a Bachelor of Arts from California State University at Los Angeles, and his Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. His principle research interests are immigration, race and ethnic relations, and visual sociology.

Cárdenas was the founding director of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He also served as the executive director for the Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR) until July 2013. He held the Julian Samora Chair in Latino Studies (1999-2012) and teaches in the Department of Sociology.

UALR and the Notre Dame Club of Arkansas are hosting Cárdenas’ appearance.