Miguel Farías, one of Latin America’s most innovative composers, will visit the Peabody Institute this February. A Chilean-Venezuelan native, Farías is renowned for his bold musical voice and ability to merge traditional and contemporary influences. His works are being performed by leading orchestras in the United States such as Los Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Kansas […]
The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Verónica Ríos Saavedra, Modern Languages and LIterature, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. “Gendered Extractivism in Filmic Representations of the Amazon" Alfredo Walls, Modern Languages and LIterature, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. "Memory and Desire: Metamorphosis of Queer Bodies in Two Poems by Luis Felipe […]
Hodson Hall 110 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies presents a panel discussion bringing together speakers who are working on the ground with migrants and refugees. They will discuss their experiences, comparing the situations at the U.S.-Mexico border and in Baltimore. They will also speak to what effects the new presidential administration […]
Gilman 308 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to announce this book presentation Computational Humanities. Edited by Jessica Marie Johnson, David Mimno and Lauren Tilton. Join Black World on February 11th from 12- 2:00 PM EST to celebrate the publication of Computational Humanities (2024), the first volume to intervene in debates on computation in the digital humanities. For […]
The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Hans Frex, Modern Languages and LIterature, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. “Black Pacific: Revolutionary Suicide and Maternal Struggle in the Afro-Colombian Diaspora in Antofagasta" Ignacio Veraguas, Modern Languages and LIterature, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. "The desengaño of the Torrid Zone: Southern Habitability and […]
Gilman 479 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present this lecture by Sarah Finley (Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Christopher Newport University): Listening to renderings of Black voices from urban New Spain, Dr. Finley will highlight the racialized politics and audio-racial discourses that framed the region’s archive. This […]
Gilman 479 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is pleased to present this lecture by Renee Hudson (Department of English, Chapman University). Drawing from her book, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments […]
The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Ryan Calder, Assistant Professor, Sociology, JHU. Ditadura, Debt, and Deceit. The Wild World of Brazilian Frequent-Flyer Miles. for our LACLxS Work-in-Progress Seminar, run by graduate students Bruno Franco (MLL) and Matheus Mendoça (Sociology), where students and JHU faculty will present their current projects. […]