We’re pleased to share that UW-Milwaukee’s College for Kids and Teens will offer Portuguese for the first time during summer 2019. All classes will be taught by Dr. Susana Antunes (UWM Spanish and Portuguese) during the week of June 10-14, … Continue Reading »
CLACS Faculty Member, Susana Antunes, featured in In Focus Newsletter
Portuguese instructor and CLACS Affiliated faculty, Susana Antunes was featured in last month’s issue of In Focus, the College of Letters and Sciences’ newsletter, for her work with the Portuguese journal, O Canto do Mar. O Canto do Mar features … Continue Reading »
2018 Milwaukee Summit
CLACS was one of many cosponsors of the 12th Annual Henry W. Maier State of Milwaukee Summit, organized by the UWM Urban Studies Programs and held on November 15, 2018. A distinguished panel of community leaders and policy experts discussed different … Continue Reading »
CLACS-Digital Humanities Fellows 2019
The UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and UWM Libraries Digital Collections are collaborating on a project to highlight unique holdings of the UWM Libraries, particularly those of the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) and Special Collections.… Continue Reading »
Fall 2018 Student Award Recipients
CLACS is proud to announce the student recipients of the Fall 2018 award cycle. Congratulations to Marissa Paulson (BA, Global Communication; Portuguese) and Sugeiry Berroa (BA, Global Studies; Portuguese) for receiving the Donald R. Shea Scholarship! This scholarship may be … Continue Reading »
Digital Resource on Cuba
Thanks to the research and digitization efforts of Regional Faculty Associate Dr. Omar Granados and Librarian David Mindel (UW-La Crosse), CLACS contributed to a new digital resource, Freedom Flotilla, which documents the Cuban Marielistas who were placed at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin upon their arrival in 1980.… Continue Reading »
New IB History of the Americas podcast series
In an ongoing collaboration with Fairfax County Public Schools (Virginia), CLACS has created a new podcast series, focused on key concepts/summaries of topics commonly taught in International Baccalaureate (IB) History of the Americas courses. … Continue Reading »
25th Anniversary of the Américas Award
This year, the Consortium of Latin American Studies Program (CLASP) celebrated 25 years of the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Washington, D.C. during Hispanic Heritage month. On September 28, 2018, the Américas Award ceremony was held at the Library of Congress. The Américas Award began at CLACS, in collaboration with CLASP, and was coordinated by the Center for its first eighteen years.… Continue Reading »
Maryse Condé Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé was announced to be the winner of the New Academy’s “alternative” Nobel Prize for Literature. Condé is the author of over 20 books, and has previously won the Grand prix littéraire de la Femme (1986), and Prix de L’Académie … Continue Reading »
UWM Biological Sciences professor publishes two books.
UWM Biological Sciences professor, Dr. Rafael Lucas Rodriguez, recently published two books in Spanish with a Costa Rican Editorial. “One is a biography of my father, who was an important figure in the development of biology as a field … Continue Reading »