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FALL 2023 LACA COURSES

Course Code

Course Title

LACA 1503T

Caribbean Feminisms
Kamala Kempadoo

This course is a study of the emergence and reconfiguration of Caribbean feminisms through the region’s history of women’s and gendered oppressions, subversions and resistances, taking into consideration colonialism, indigeneity, slavery and indentureship, transnationality, and race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class. Attention is also paid to strategies for knowledge production that have been utilised for studying Caribbean gender and sexuality and to the types of research these have produced. Threaded through the course will be an ongoing focus on a recent InterGuyanas feminism initiative that spans the Dutch, English and French-speaking Guyanas.

This course is intended for juniors and seniors, but others may be given special permission to register. Students should have some prior knowledge of the Caribbean and/or Gender Studies.

LACA 1504J

Reimaging Resistance: Debates in Contemporary Art from Latin America
Agustín Diez Fischer

This course introduces students to problems and questions addressed in contemporary Latin American art. We will discuss a wide range of productions that include theoretical texts, exhibitions, manifestos, videos, installations, paintings, and performances. We will explore how art rethinks social constructs of gender, race, national imaginaries, or the relationship with the non-human world. The languages of instruction will be Spanish and English. Intermediate knowledge of Spanish is required for conducting readings and class discussions. This course is appropriate for students who have taken AP Spanish, heritage speakers, and students who have taken or placed in 500-level Spanish language classes at Brown.

LACA 1504O

Re-thinking Latin American Geographies through Social Mapping 
Geronimo Barerra de la Torre
Maps are important tools for our daily activities and spatial imaginaries; however, the ways in which official and dominant Western maps organized the information about the world occludes other ways of knowing territories. How are these “other” geographies represented? How are maps re-designed and appropriated to visualize different spatialities? In this course, students will be introduced to key themes and design practices in social cartography in Latin America. These reflect on collective or individual mapping practices to represent and increase the visibility of social issues and ways of knowing and being in this region. Intermediate knowledge of Spanish is required for conducting readings and class-discussion. This course is appropriate for students who have taken AP Spanish, heritage speakers, and students who have taken or placed in 500-level Spanish language classes at Brown. Previous knowledge of maps not required.

LACA 1900

Preparing for Honors and Capstone Projects on Latin American and Caribbean Topics 
Neil Safier 
This workshop is designed for junior and seniors in any concentration who are researching and writing about Latin America and the Caribbean. It will help students to enhance their research and organization skills, refine their research or creative projects, and develop or complete a Capstone Project (e.g. honors thesis, honors project, substantial research paper).



FALL 2023 LACA CROSS-LISTED COURSES

Course Code

Course Title

Course Instructor

HISP 0730

Encounters: Latin America in Its Literature and Culture

Iris Montero

HISP 1331S

Mapping Food and Eating Meaning in the Spanish-Speaking World

Felipe Martinez-Pinzon

AFRI 0670

Global Black Radicalism

Brian Meeks

HIST 0233

Colonial Latin America

Jeremy  Mumford

HIST 1360

Amazonia from the Prehuman to the Present

Neil F Safier

HIST 0558C

Latinx Social Movement History

Mark Ocegueda

HISP 2030B

History and Fiction: Literature of the 15th Century

Mercedes Vaquero

POBS 0810

Belonging and Displacement: Cross-Cultural Identities

Patricia I Sobral

IAPA 1401

Economic Development in Latin America

Veronica H Ingham

HIST 0253A

Colonial America: A Global History



Linford Fisher

HIST 0552A




A Textile History of Atlantic Slavery




Seth Rockman

MCM 1205G

Contemporary Black Popular Music

Alexander Weheliye

AMST 1700X



Global Macho: Race, Gender, and Action Movies



Matthew Guterl

ANTH 1030



Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture: A World That Matters



Stephen Houston

HISP 0710B



Hispanic Culture Through Cinema



Mercedes Vaquero

ECON 1570



The Economics of Latin Americans



Pedro Dal Bo

tbd

Black Queer Diasporas

Alexander Ghedi Weheliye

IAPA 1701W

The Cold War in Latin America

Stephen Kinzer

This list is not yet final, and students can check with our DUS if you have questions about a specific course not listed on the site!