The 2023 Latin American Film Festival is co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Media Studies and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. 5 PM, REMSEN HALL 101 Free Entrance. […]
News & Announcements Archive
LACLxS Summer Research Grantees 2023
The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLxS) is delighted to announce the Graduate Student Research Grantees for the Summer of 2023. LACLxS grants support summer research and travel […]
Science, Technology, and Development in Argentina: Opportunities and Challenges (Zoom Recording)
Last Wednesday, April 5th, the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, in co-sponsorship with the International Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University, welcomed Daniel Filmus, Minister of Science, […]
Thornton Wins Library of Congress’s Kluge Fellowship
Sociology Professor and LACLxS Co-chair Christy Thornton wins Library of Congress’s Kluge Fellowship for her book project “To Reckon with the Riot.” The Kluge Center encourages humanistic and social science research […]
Peru’s Crisis in the Latin American Context (Zoom Recording)
Last Thursday, February 2nd, the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, co-sponsored with the Program in International Studies, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins […]
LACLxS Announces Funding Opportunities for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
2023 Summer Travel Grants for Research on Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies. LACLxS offers small grants to support summer research and travel in Latin America and the Caribbean. Grants […]
Thornton & Rodríguez Publish Special Issue of Cambridge Review of International Affairs
As the result of an international, interdisciplinary conference convened at Johns Hopkins by the Latin America in a Globalizing World Initiative, Dr. Christy Thornton (Assistant Professor, Sociology) and Dr. J. Luis Rodríguez (PhD 2021, Political Science) have published a special issue of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs: “The Liberal International Order and the Global South: A View from Latin America.”
Lurtz Wins ASLH Anne Flemming Article Prize
The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) selected Casey Lurtz’s article, “Codifying Credit: Everyday Contracting and the Spread of the Civil Code in Nineteenth-Century Mexico,” for the 2022 Anne Flemming Article Prize.
Angelini Awarded Hunt Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation
Anthropology professor and LACLxS faculty Alessandro Angelini has received a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, a grant meant to support to support innovative writing projects to advance anthropological knowledge. Here are further details on the book project supported by the award.
Prof. Lurtz’s interview on JHU Arts & Sciences Weekly
Professor Casey Lurtz was interviewed for Faculty Focus on JHU Arts & Sciences Weekly (September 2022). Describe your primary research or scholarship, and tell us what is most exciting about […]