The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and the Center for International Education (CIE) were both awarded highly competitive 2018-2022 Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) funding by the U.S. … Continue Reading »
Radio Ambulante
Radio Ambulante is an award-winning Spanish language podcast that uses long-form audio journalism to tell neglected and under-reported Latin American and Latino stories. Find more at their website or on NPR’s website.… Continue Reading »
CLACS-Digital Humanities Fellows 2019
The UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and UWM Libraries Digital Collections are collaborating on a project to highlight unique holdings of the UWM Libraries, particularly those of the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) and Special Collections.… Continue Reading »
2019 Summer Teacher Institute
July 10-12, 2019
A generation has passed since the 1987 Central American peace accords which promised to end the civil wars and lay the foundation for democratic practice in the region. El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, however, are today some of the world’s most violent societies. The current migration crisis highlights the fragility of institutions…… Continue Reading »
Fall 2018 Student Award Recipients
CLACS is proud to announce the student recipients of the Fall 2018 award cycle. Congratulations to Marissa Paulson (BA, Global Communication; Portuguese) and Sugeiry Berroa (BA, Global Studies; Portuguese) for receiving the Donald R. Shea Scholarship! This scholarship may be … Continue Reading »
LACUSL Lecture Series
The First LACUSL Lecture series of the Spring 2019 semester will occur Friday January 25th, 2019 at the American Geographical Society Library in the Golda Meir library. “Bringing Memory Home or a Journey of Rebuilding : The Digital Repatriation of the Archive … Continue Reading »
Digital Resource on Cuba
Thanks to the research and digitization efforts of Regional Faculty Associate Dr. Omar Granados and Librarian David Mindel (UW-La Crosse), CLACS contributed to a new digital resource, Freedom Flotilla, which documents the Cuban Marielistas who were placed at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin upon their arrival in 1980.… Continue Reading »