Colectivo Coffee and CLACS are pleased to announce this year’s lineup for the Música del Lago concert series at Colectivo’s Lakefront cafe, Milwaukee! Now in its fifteenth year, this series highlights some of our city’s finest Latin music groups. All … Continue Reading »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
November 14, 2018
Join us for a panel discussion on the recent election of Jair Balsonaro in Brazil. … Continue Reading »
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 »
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 »