April 5-11, 2019
We are pleased to announce that the lineup for the 41st annual Latin American Film Series at UW-Milwaukee is now available! … Continue Reading »
41st Annual Latin American Film Series Lineup Announced
LACUSL Speaker Series, Anna María Escobar
March 6, 2019
(2:30pm, AGSL, UWM Libraries, 3rd floor)
Join us for the next LACUSL Speaker Series event, featuring Dr. Anna María Escobar (Spanish and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Her talk is entitled: “Peruvian Colonial Spanish: Spanish and Indigenous Narrative Strategies.”… Continue Reading »
Spring 2019 LACUSL Speaker Series
Re-scheduled to February 27, 2019
(3:20pm, AGSL, UWM Libraries, 3rd floor)
Join us for the next LACUSL Speaker Series event, featuring Dr. Beatriz Botero (Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies, UW-Madison). Her talk is entitled: “The Contemporary Latin American Novel: Psychoanalysis and Violence.”… Continue Reading »
Tierra Herida: Printmaking from the Americas
January 8-March 9, 2019
This exhibit at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts (Milwaukee), cosponsored by CLACS, is a panorama of contemporary printmaking in the Americas—46 artists from 20 countries explore the theme of mining from colonial times to the present. … 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 »
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 »
Making Sense of Brazil’s Presidential Elections
November 14, 2018
Join us for a panel discussion on the recent election of Jair Balsonaro in Brazil. … Continue Reading »
Black Consciousness: Racial Inequalities in Brazil
November 5, 2018 (5pm)
With Professor Marcelo Paixao from the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) at the University of Texas at Austin and Teresa Lozano Long from the Institute for Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas in Austin.… Continue Reading »
Brazil Initiative Workshop: Call for Submissions
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is pleased to launch a Brazil Initiative for WI and the Upper Midwest. The Brazil Initiative is designed to serve as a regional network to promote scholarship, … Continue Reading »
LACUSL Speaker Series Fall 2018
Fall 2018 LACUSL Speaker Series Announced
This year’s LACUSL Speaker Series honors Professor Howard Handelman’s (UWM professor 1970-2006) lifelong contributions to learning and promoting the study of Latin America and the Caribbean.… Continue Reading »