April 21-May 1, 2022
Join us for the 2022 Latin American Film Series, organized by CLACS, with a grant from Pragda’s Spanish Film Club.… Continue Reading »
UN Language Celebrations
The UN’s International Mother Language Day was celebrated on February 21st, with this year’s theme being “Using Technology for Multilingual Learning: Challenges and Opportunities.” This fits in well with the UNESCO International Decade of Indigenous Languages, running 2022-2032. There are several resources the … Continue Reading »
Partnership with UWM Libraries Enhances Diversity of Libraries’ Collections
A three-decade collaboration between the UWM Libraries and the UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies has enhanced the diversity of the Libraries’ collections. A partnership that began in 1993 between the UWM Libraries and UWM’s Center for Latin … Continue Reading »
Spotlight: Geosciences PhD Graduate, Nick Fedorchuk
This week’s #CLACSCommunity member is UWM alum and former Ruggiero-Handelman Field Research recipient Dr. Nicholas Fedorchuk! Nick was also a former recipient of the Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant. Nick received his PhD in Geosciences from UWM in 2019 with … Continue Reading »
Spring Funding for Faculty, Students, and Regional Faculty
Another semester means another round of funding opportunities! UWM Faculty: Apply for our Research-Conference Award by March 15, 2022. UWM Graduate Students in any field: Apply for the Summer Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Ruggiero-Handelman Field Research Award, … Continue Reading »
CARIGEO’s 2022 Student Competition
The Caribbean Geospatial Development Initiative (CARIGEO) is holding their 2022 student competition entitled “Your Caribbean Story.” This competition allows “students like you to tell your story while encouraging spatial thinking and promoting research across the region” with a variety of … Continue Reading »
NCCLA Spring 2022 Conference (Virtual)
April 23, 2022
The spring special conference focuses on “The Pandemic Today and the History of Public Health
In Latin America.” Individual presentations and full panels welcome.… Continue Reading »
Atlas of Endangered Alphabets
The Atlas of Endangered Alphabets has a database of international “Indigenous and minority writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them.” One of these alphabets is Afáka, used to write a Surinamese creole of African origin called Okanisi or … Continue Reading »
Climate Change on the Nicaraguan Coast
TedEd has a lesson on communities on the Nicaraguan coast who are deciding whether to move their community due to the continually intensifying storms symptomatic of climate change. This lesson includes a 6-minute video, multiple choice and open answer questions, discussion … Continue Reading »