Eastern professor Vanessa Landrus will give insight into Argentinean marriages in a presentation today being offered as part of Latino Heritage Month.

The event will takes place at 6 p.m. in the Charleston/Mattoon room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

The “Marriage in Argentina” presentation is open for any student to attend and will include a movie titled “El hijo de la novia.”

“[The movie] is a fairly new movie, which deals with issues of civil and religious marriage and divorce in Argentina as seen by both the new and old generation,” said Vanessa Landrus, a foreign language professor.

Landrus will be hosting the presentation and plans on supplying preliminary information prior to the start of the movie.

“My introduction will offer a background for students to have a better understanding of the movie’s subject matter,” Landrus said.

Her introduction will include information on how the ceremonies are held, what age people usually get married, and when they decide to have children.

Landrus was born and raised in Argentina and moved to the United States in 1999. She attended Eastern as an undergraduate student and completed her graduate studies at the University of Illinois.

She has been teaching at Eastern for three years and has been on the Latino Heritage Celebration month committee ever since.

“I believe this is a great opportunity to raise cultural awareness, and for students to get an insight of how marriage is celebrated in Argentina,” Landrus said.