Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies

“CARAJITA” Silvina Schnicer, Ulises Porra / Argentina, Dominican Republic / 2021 / 89 min https://pragda.com/film/carajita Spanish with English subtitles Featuring striking cinematography and outstanding performances, Carajita (which means annoying child) explores the tenuous relationship that exists between race, class, and family. Sarah, the pampered daughter of a corrupt oligarch whose family recently relocated to Las […]

Gilman 479 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, are pleased to present RELIGION, CAPTIVITY, AND FREEDOM: A POST/COLONIAL DISAVOWAL OF ALONSO DE SANDOVAL'S DE AETHIOPUM SALUTE (1627) AND EQUATORIAL GUINEAN LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY IBERIAN BLACK ATLANTIC Jerome Branche is Professor of Latin American […]

SNF Agora Institute Conference Room The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Department of Political Science are pleased to present Guillermo Trejo (Political Science, University of Notre Dame), for his lecture on: SILENCING THE PRESS IN CRIMINAL WARS: WHY THE WAR ON DRUGS TURNED MEXICO INTO THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY […]

“EMA” Pablo Larraín / Chile / 2019 / 102 min https://pragda.com/film/ema Spanish with English subtitles Adoptive parents Ema (Variety’s 10 Latinxs To Watch 2020’s Mariana Di Girolamo) and Gastón (Gael García Bernal) are artistic free spirits in a contemporary dance troupe whose lives are thrown into chaos when their adopted son Polo is involved in […]

Red Emma's Bookstore (3128 Greenmount Ave) The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Center for Gun Solutions is pleased to welcome Jorell Meléndez Badillo (History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) for a conversation about his book PUERTO RICO: A NATIONAL HISTORY (Princeton University Press, 2024) Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the […]

BLC Macksey Seminar Room 2043 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance, are pleased to welcome José Montelongo, the Maury A. Bromsen Curator of Latin American Books at John Carter Brown Library, for a lecture: IN SEARCH OF THE […]

“EL CASO PADILLA” Pavel Giroud / Cuba, Spain / 2022 / 78 min https://pragda.com/film/the-padilla-affair Spanish with English subtitles In the spring of 1971 in Havana, poet Heberto Padilla is released from prison and attends a Cuban writers’ guild meeting. During the gathering, he delivers what he describes as a “heartfelt self-criticism,” admitting to being a […]

Macaulay 101 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Program in International Studies, are pleased to present Matías Vernengo, Full Professor at Bucknell University, for his talk LA ARGENTINA DE JAVIER MILEI: 10 MONTHS LATER Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina last November, and was inaugurated later in December, facing […]

Levering Conference Room A Join us for presentations by the 2024 LACLxS student research grantees! Featuring: 9:30-9:50 am Rhiannon Clarke, Spanish & Portuguese: “Poet in : Spanish Networks of Exile and the Reception of Lorca in Mexico” 10:00 -10:20 am Jaclyn Dyson, International Health: “Process Evaluation of Maternal-Child Health Interventions in Guatemala” 10:30 -10:50 am Grant […]