Thursday, April 25, 2024
6-7pm Central
Join this free K-16 educator professional development session on climate migration, organized in collaboration with the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Vanderbilt University, and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.… Continue Reading »
45th annual Latin American Film Series
March 28-April 5, 2024
UWM Union Cinema
Free Admission
Join us for the Latin American Film Series, our first time fully back in the UWM Union Cinema for in-person screenings since 2019! We have a lineup of eleven narrative feature and documentary films from Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Argentina.… Continue Reading »
FLAS Career Panel
The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at UW-Milwaukee and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah are hosting a hybrid Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Career Panel on March 14, 2024 at … Continue Reading »
2024 CLACS Summer Teacher Institute
Asian Diasporas in Latin America
July 22-24, 2024
This summer institute examines Asian migration to Latin America and the Caribbean since the mid-19th century, the experience of their descendants as well the emergence of more recent Asian communities in the region. … Continue Reading »
2024 NCCLA Teaching & Learning Workshop
April 6, 2024
9am-3pm
Latin Americanist faculty from all disciplines are invited to participate in the 13th NCCLA Teaching and Learning Workshop. The workshop is intended to build on the cross-disciplinary nature of the NCCLA Conference … Continue Reading »
Agents of Exchange
Women’s Roles in Forming the Latin American Literary Canon
an international virtual symposium
February 16, 2024
Even before the 1868 translation of Sarmiento’s ‘Facundo’ by Mary Tyler Mann, women’s contributions have been crucial to the development of the Latin American literary canon.… Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series, spring 2024
“Black Brazilian Women in the Political Arena (2019-2023): Achievements and Challenges”
February 15, 2024
3pm
with Dr. Fernanda Barros dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro… Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series
December 5, 2023 (3pm)
AGSL, UWM Libraries, 3rd fl
“When Life Hands You Tɨkuee Iya, Make Ndute Tɨkuee Iya:
A Research Journey with Pottery and the Mixtec Language in Oaxaca, Mexico”
As a master’s student in archaeology, Cheri Price’s focus was on the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, and pottery from the Formative period. In her thesis, she used ethnoarchaeology examples of pottery creation to explain processes for the samples that she had. She also… Continue Reading »
Silent Books
Sharing Wordless Picture Books across Cultures and Languages
Monday, December 11, 2023
11am Central (via Zoom)
In response to the waves of refugees from Africa and the Middle East arriving to the Italian island,Lampedusa, the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), led by Deborah Soria, launched the project… Continue Reading »
2024 Children’s and Young Adult Literature Book Fellows
To support more diverse books in classrooms and libraries and integration of diverse books in the curriculum, CLACS will award $1000 summer stipends to five Milwaukee Public Schools teachers and librarians (any related subject area, any level) to… Continue Reading »