LAGW Seminar: Power

Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Professor Consuelo Amat, SNF Agora Institute, Political Science, JHU, to present: "Power in Autonomy: The Political Strategy of Constructive Resistance," and Alex Sanchez, Ph.D. Student, History, JHU, to present: "Los tiempos de cuarentena: Disease and Vaccination in Post-emancipation Puerto Rico" […]

Rachel Nolan: Reporting History: A Public Humanities Writing Workshop

Gilman 443 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to welcome Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University, for a the workshop, Reporting History: A Public Humanities Writing Workshop Humanists possess a reservoir of scholarly abilities that prime them for contributing to debates well beyond the academy. For […]

Rachel Nolan: Until I Find You – Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

Bird in Hand Bookstore, 11 E 33rd St The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism are pleased to welcome Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University, for a conversation about her recent book, Until I Find You: […]

LAGW Seminar: Colonial Queerness

Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Rachel Williams, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures, to present "Sor Juana’s Assemblages: Writing Subjects in 'Los empeños de una casa'", and Alfredo Walls, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures: "Queerness in […]

LAGW Seminar: Contemporary Queerness

Mason Hall Alumni Board Room 102 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Javier Pérez Osorio, PhD Candidate, Film and Screen Studies, University of Cambridge: "Locuras del sur: La Loca as a Latin American Model of Queerness," and Bruno Franco, PhD Student, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures: […]

Maia Gil’Adí: Thinking from the Hole – Latinidad on the Edge

Gilman Hall 479 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures are pleased to welcome Maia Gil'Adí, Assistant Professor of Latinx and Multiethnic Literature at Boston University, for the lecture: Thinking from the Hole: Latinidad on the Edge Drawing on her current book project, Maia Gil’Adí examines representations […]

Marcelo Nogueira: Popcretos, 1964-1966 – Sonic Matters in Brazilian Concrete Poetry

Gilman Hall 479 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to welcome Marcelo Nogueira, lecturer in LACLxS and Modern Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University University, for the lecture: Popcretos, 1964-1966: Sonic Matters in Brazilian Concrete Poetry The lecture investigates the dynamic relationship between sound and visual elements in Brazilian concrete poetry, drawing […]

Gabriel Hetland: Democracy on the Ground – Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn

Red Emma's Bookstore (3128 Greenmount Ave) The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to welcome Gabriel Hetland, Associate Professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and Sociology at SUNY Albany, for a conversation about his recent book, Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn Following a […]

Who owns Black Data? Slavery & Data

The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to co-sponsor the symposium Who owns Black Data? Slavery & Data PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM, Mar 29, 9 am - 5 pm, Charles Commons KEYNOTE CONVERSATION & BOMBAZO, Mar 29, 6-9 pm, NoMüNoMü (709 N Howard St) Please join us for a concluding keynote conversation led […]

Jennifer Eaglin: Brazil’s Energy Past and Future

Gilman Hall 308 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to welcome Jennifer Eaglin, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University and fellow at the Wilson Center’s Brazil Institute, to present: Brazil’s Energy Past and Future Drawing on her recent book, Sweet Fuel: A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol and her […]

LAGW Seminar: Americas, Amazonias

Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Julieta Casas, PhD Candidate, Political Science, JHU, to present: Convergence or Divergence? Toward a New Frame of American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective, and Óscar Aponte, PhD Candidate, Latin America History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, to present: From Dispossession to Reservation: […]