The Healthy People on a Healthy Planet Conference is taking place on September 27.… Continue Reading »
Healthy People on a Healthy Planet
2019 NCCLA Annual Conference
October 24-26, 2019
Registration information is now available online for the 2019 conference of the North Central Council of Latin Americanists (NCCLA), to be held at Simpson College.… Continue Reading »
Another Successful Summer Teacher Institute
CLACS hosted the 2019 Summer Teacher Institute, “Society and Politics in Contemporary Central America.” Twenty-four educators and 1 student came together to participate and share resources. These educators represented K-12 and post-secondary institutions from five states.
The materials used in this conference can be found here.
The institute was a collaboration between the UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS); UW-Madison Latin American,Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS); and the Florida International University (FIU) Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center. CLACS, LACIS, and FIU are Title VI National Resource Centers, funded by the U.S. Department of Education
Música del Lago 2019
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 »
41st Annual Latin American Film Series Lineup Announced
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 »
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 »