The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute

@ San Martin Center 200A The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies presents Dennis Hogan (History & Literature, Harvard University) for his talk on the anticolonial century at the Panama Canal: Pedro Prestán, Eric Walrond and the Black Historical Tradition. In 1885, an explosive civil conflict in Colombia threatened commerce across the Isthmus […]

@ Hackerman B17 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies and the Program in International Studies are excited to present this event where Michael Shifter, Former president of the Inter-American Dialogue, will discuss with Inés Valdez the likely outlines of U.S. Latin American relations in the Second Trump administration. The conversation will revolve […]

@ Mergenthaler 426 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Christine Folch (Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University), for her talk on the cultural history of Yerba Mate. From Sacred Brew to Global Commodity: Anthropology, Yerba Mate, and the Changing Geographies of Consumption Brewed from the […]

@ Gilman 479 The program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Valeria Meiller (Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio) for a lecture on IN DEFENSE OF THE LAND: AGAINST ECO- & ACOUSTIC COLONIALISM IN 21st CENTURY PLURILINGUAL POETRY OF ABIAYALA The environmental humanities have advanced persuasive […]

@ Gilman 119 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Valeria Meiller (Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at San Antonio) for a workshop on ECOPOETRY/ECOPOETRY: THE AFFORDANCES AND PITFALLS OF ECOLOGICALLY ENGAGED POETIC PRAXIS This workshop presents three theoretical entryways to the concept of ecopoetry—understood broadly as […]

The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Joao Gabriel, History, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. “To Deport or to Imprison? The Case of the Mauvais Subjets in Guadeloupe (1827-1848)” Leana Mason, Sociology, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. “Rituals of Resistance to Racial Capitalism: Analyzing the Persistence of Jab Jab in Grenada” for our […]

@ Mergenthaler 266 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Alonso Burgos (Sociology, JHU) • Towards a Contingency-Context Theory of the Political Economy of Census Race-Making: Insights from Colonial and Republican Peru. Keely Kriho (Political Science, JHU) • Mariátegui, the Mexican Revolution, and Marxist Dependency Theory for our LACLxS […]