News & Announcements Archive

Peru’s Crisis in the Latin American Context (Zoom Recording)

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 Spring 2023 Events

LACLxS Spring 2023 Events

The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies presents its Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Events scheduled for the Spring of 2023. We look forward to seeing you in person or […]

LACLxS Announces Funding Opportunities for Graduate and Undergraduate Students

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

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

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

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

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 […]

LACLxS Launches Fall 2022

We’re so excited to welcome you to the re-launched Johns Hopkins Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, or LACLxS (pronounced Lac-Lax. This is Hopkins, after all!). This is […]

LACLxS/BWS Collaboration

In Fall 2022 LACLxS is thrilled to be collaboration with the Black World Seminar, convened this semester by Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, to bring four incredible scholars to campus to […]

Upcoming panels on current events

This fall, LACLxS will convene two important panels on key events in the Americas. First, in conjunction with the Portuguese Language Program, we’ll host a panel on the upcoming presidential […]