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2021 CLACS Summer Teacher Institute
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 »
Eddie Avila, Director of Rising Voices
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 »
Spring 2021 Brazil Initiative
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 »
42nd Annual Latin American Film Series Lineup Announced
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 »
The Sidewalk School
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 »
Mali-Cuba Musical Connections: A Talkback with Paul Cebar, Feb 25 5-6pm Central
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 »
Latin America & Canada, Global Perspectives on the New U.S. Administration
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 »
Author Reyna Grande
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 »
Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America
February 17, 2021 (4-5:30pm Central)
with Jeffrey Erbig (Assistant Professor in Latin American and Latino Studies UC-Santa Cruz)
Drawing upon manuscripts from over two dozen archives in seven countries, Erbig traces on-the-ground interactions between Ibero-American colonists, Jesuit and Guaraní mission-dwellers, and autonomous Indigenous peoples as they responded to ever-changing notions of territorial possession.… Continue Reading »