Competition Announcement CLACS Faculty Fellows 2023-24 Academic Year Latin America in Global Perspective Application Deadline: May 31st, 2024 The UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) invites applications for its CLACS Fellows program focused annually on diverse themes. Fellows …
The Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition opens its 60th year on the 20th of April. A New York Times Article is focusing on various Indigenous artists featured—including, “a collective of painters from the Brazilian Amazon, MAHKU (Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin)” who …
Thursday, April 25, 2024
6-7pm Central
Join this free K-16 educator professional development session on climate migration, organized in collaboration with the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Vanderbilt University, and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.
March 28-April 5, 2024
UWM Union Cinema
Free Admission
Join us for the Latin American Film Series, our first time fully back in the UWM Union Cinema for in-person screenings since 2019! We have a lineup of eleven narrative feature and documentary films from Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Argentina.
The New York Times has an interactive article focusing on linguistic diversity in New York City. The article includes an interactive map highlighting different neighborhoods and language communities, and also has short clips of different people speaking in their language …
The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at UW-Milwaukee and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah are hosting a hybrid Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Career Panel on March 14, 2024 at …
February is Black History Month in the United States and a huge focus of this month in high school and college classrooms is the Harlem Renaissance. Did you know that a significant number of influential people within this movement had …
Women’s Roles in Forming the Latin American Literary Canon
an international virtual symposium
February 16, 2024
Even before the 1868 translation of Sarmiento’s ‘Facundo’ by Mary Tyler Mann, women’s contributions have been crucial to the development of the Latin American literary canon.
“Black Brazilian Women in the Political Arena (2019-2023): Achievements and Challenges”
February 15, 2024
3pm
with Dr. Fernanda Barros dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Each year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization selects cultural practices that are unique and important to different communities in particular need to be honored and safeguarded. In 2023, 9 elements from Latin America and the Caribbean were …