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 »
Migration Webinar Series: Wisconsin/Milwaukee Ties
November 18 (4-5:30pm Central)
This webinar will focus on individual, day-to-day lives and work. By closing the series in this way, we are bringing the many migration issues discussed throughout the fall to reflect more fully on people’s stories and lived experiences.… Continue Reading »
Virtual Internship Webinar
Join us on Nov 13th and Nov 20th for a two part event, organized with our friends in the Global and International Studies and The Department of African & African Diaspora Studies: Student Internships in the Virtual Space!
Part one on 11/13 at 12pm frames the virtual internship experience, emphasizing strengths and opportunities, and why you might consider one in spring or next year. Register here https://lnkd.in/g9EKrDc
Part two on 11/20 at 12pm features an intern and employer panel. Register here https://lnkd.in/ghPzhj
CLACS Summer Teacher Institute focused on “Under-Reported Stories from Latin America”
Read about the memorable images and stories shared by journalists Nadja Drost, Pablo Albarenga, and Musuk Nolte with 133 K-16 educators who participated in the virtual 2020 CLACS annual summer institute. … Continue Reading »
ACTFL Workshop, fall 2020
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Virtual Workshop Distance Learning Tools and Strategies for Developing Proficiency in Each Mode of Communication Saturday, October 10, 2020 10am-2:30pm In this workshop, language educators will explore tools for planning and … Continue Reading »
Telling Stories about the Americas: Digital Humanities Tools for the Classroom
August 4-6, 2020
free for K-16 educators
Digital Humanities employs information technologies to research and present humanities topics in innovative and engaging ways. With the availability of free authoring tools, educators can draw from openly accessible digital collections of maps, images and other primary sources to create multimedia classroom resources.… Continue Reading »
Event Postponed: Symposium: Migration in the Americas
CLACS is postponing the Migration in the Americas Symposium. More details will be forthcoming. —————————————————————————– CLACS is pleased to host the Symposium, “Migration in the Americas,” from April 24-25, 2020. Migration of people to, within, and from the Americas has … Continue Reading »