CLACS is pleased to announce the recently selected 2022 CLACS Faculty Fellows, who will be focusing their projects on this year’s theme, Stories, Voices and Perspectives.… Continue Reading »
Eugenics and Reproductive Coercion in Puerto Rico
Starting in the 1950s, Puerto Rican women were coerced into sterilization and used as test subjects in developing the modern birth control pill. They were targeted primarily due to issues of eugenics and were not given much, if any, information about either … Continue Reading »
Report from the Field: UWM Freshwater Sciences Student Research (Laguna Bacalar, Mexico)
April 27, 2022
9-11am
Laguna Bacalar is on the cusp of becoming one of the most threatened lakes in the world. An international research experience through UW-Milwaukee with funding from the National Science Foundation is providing students the opportunity to researc… Continue Reading »
Japanese Peruvians in WWII
““You Brought Us Here”: The Plight of Japanese Peruvians in World War II U.S. Incarceration”, given by Dr. Natasha Varner on Wednesday, April 20 (4pm Central) via Zoom, will be the second event in a series on Japanese Latin Americans during WWII. Click here to register and click … Continue Reading »
Access to Global Public Health
April 19, 2022
10am Central
Dr. Paul Farmer, a founder of Partners in Health (PIH), died earlier this spring. To honor his impact and vision, this event highlights one of many global health professionals who carry forward that same commitment of public health for poor and underserved communities around the world.… Continue Reading »
Reinventing Community in Hualcayán, Peru: Ancient and contemporary transformations of landscape, ritual, and heritage
April 14, 2022
1:30pm Central
This talk traces Bria’s archaeological reconstruction of ancient community life in Hualcayán, Peru, a place Andean people inhabited, reimagined, and transformed over nearly four thousand years (2400 BC–AD 1450). It also reflects upon how Hualcayán’s ruins, infrastructure, and other material legacies continue to impact contemporary villagers… Continue Reading »
Translation as a Generative Construct for Lesson Ideas
Language brokering, a “practice engaged in by many immigrant youth who interpret and translate oral and written language for others” (often their parents or guardians), is a practice often found in many immigrant communities including those from Latin America and … Continue Reading »
In Mexico, Ornately Painted Churches Enshrine Years of Indigenous Resilience
The New York Times has an article about Purépecha resistance and art in Michoacán, focusing on the Christian cosmology painted in Indigenous traditions that now reflects the community that surrounds it. Find that article here. To offer a wider variety of information on Purépecha … Continue Reading »