Visit our Fall Welcome website for information about the fall semester.
August 2-4, 2021
10-11:30am Central
Digital Collections (UWM Libraries), in collaboration with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), UW-Milwaukee, will offer a free, three-session workshop series for educators focused on the open access digital humanities tool: the Knight Lab’s StorymapJS.… Continue Reading »
Summer Series
June 24-August 24, 2021
10-11:30am Central)
In collaboration with the International Youth Library (Munich, Germany) and Translation & Interpreting Studies (UW-Milwaukee), CLACS offers a summer series of six acclaimed Latin American children’s and young adult writers and illustrators, moderated by international children’s book specialists who know their work well. Countries represented in this year’s series include Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. … Continue Reading »
June 28-30, 2021
9am-12noon CDT
Please join Pulitzer Center and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for an engaging webinar and workshop series, Underreported News Stories from Latin America.… Continue Reading »
April 29
11am Central
“Rising Voices, the outreach initiative of Global Voices, aims to help bring new voices from new communities and speaking endangered or indigenous languages to the global conversation by… Continue Reading »
CLACS has two days of virtual events for our Spring 2021 Brazil Initiative. The events were graciously put together by our colleagues at Marquette University, Dr. Michelle Medeiros (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) and Dr. Jessica Rich (Political Science). April 23, … Continue Reading »
We are pleased to announce that the schedule for the 42nd annual Latin American Film Series at UW-Milwaukee is now available! Our thanks to E.J. Basa (LAFS programmer), Lin Haggerty (LAFS co-programmer), and to our many cosponsors, listed on the … Continue Reading »
March 2, 2021
4:30-5:30pm Central
The Sidewalk School exists to provide quality education to migrant children who would go without as they experience displacement at the U.S.-Mexico border. Initially developed for the Matamoros Tent City, The Sidewalk School now operates in six Mexican cities. … Continue Reading »
After viewing Edouard Salier’s 2020 documentary: Africa mia – La fabuleuse histoire des Maravillas de Mali (The Mali-Cuba Connection – Africa mia) 19-21 Feb 2021 @ the virtual Festival of Films in French Join us Thursday Feb 25, 2021: 5-6pm … Continue Reading »
February 24, 4pm Central
The four-part webinar series explores the foreign policy landscape facing the Biden-Harris Administration. Each session will focus on different world regions, including… Continue Reading »
March 10, 2021 (4:30-6:00pm Central)
Reyna Grande is the author of the bestselling memoir, The Distance Between Us, (Atria, 2012) where she writes about her life before and after she arrived in the United States from Mexico as an undocumented child immigrant.… Continue Reading »