This year, the Consortium of Latin American Studies Program (CLASP) celebrated 25 years of the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Washington, D.C. during Hispanic Heritage month. On September 28, 2018, the Américas Award ceremony was held at the Library of Congress. The Américas Award began at CLACS, in collaboration with CLASP, and was coordinated by the Center for its first eighteen years.… Continue Reading »
Maryse Condé Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé was announced to be the winner of the New Academy’s “alternative” Nobel Prize for Literature. Condé is the author of over 20 books, and has previously won the Grand prix littéraire de la Femme (1986), and Prix de L’Académie … Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series Fall 2018
Fall 2018 LACUSL Speaker Series Announced
This year’s LACUSL Speaker Series honors Professor Howard Handelman’s (UWM professor 1970-2006) lifelong contributions to learning and promoting the study of Latin America and the Caribbean.… Continue Reading »
Inca civilization was better at skull surgery than Civil War doctors
This interesting article from Science Magazine compares and contrasts skull surgery done by Civil War doctors, and Inca doctors who were performing their surgeries centuries earlier. Read more here.… Continue Reading »
UWM Biological Sciences professor publishes two books.
UWM Biological Sciences professor, Dr. Rafael Lucas Rodriguez, recently published two books in Spanish with a Costa Rican Editorial. “One is a biography of my father, who was an important figure in the development of biology as a field … Continue Reading »