Brown Is Top-Ranked for Brazilian Studies
December 4, 2017
Congratulations to our colleagues at the Brazil Initiative!
News Archive 2017
Central Falls and its Mayor Look Towards the Future
November 20, 2017 Louis Epstein, CLACS Fellow
Pa’lo Monte: Centering Blackness in Afro-Dominican Resistance Music
November 16, 2017 Nikkie Ubinas, CLACS Fellow
Two CLACS-Affiliated PhD Students Win Fulbright-Hays Award
November 3, 2017 Brown University Website
Latinx Heritage Month Art Exhibition at Brown
October 10, 2017
The Latinx Heritage Series of at the Brown Center for Students of Color (BCSC) hosted a Latinx Heritage Month Art Exhibition on Saturday, October 7th from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. in Leung Gallery.
Argentinian Writer Alejandra Laurencich Discusses Her Work
September 27, 2017
Laurencich, a renowned Argentinian author, will discuss her work and its translation to English by Victoria Smith, professor of the Hispanic Studies Department at Brown University, as well as the contemporary literary panorama of her native country. The event will take place on Wednesday October 11th @ 12 pm at the Music Room in Rochambeau House (84 Prospect Street).
Literature Heals Social Wounds
September 17, 2017 El Comercio
Hispanic Studies Professor Julio Ortega discusses his new anthology on Mexican literature, Nuevo relato mexicano (Lima, Peisa 2017), the direction of prose in South America, and the birth of authors of a new generation who challenge popular perceptions of contemporary Latin America.
CLACS to host, livestream discussion about Venezuela
September 15, 2017
CLACS will host a conversation about the current situation in Venezuela on Thursday, September 21, 2017. The event will be livestreamed.
Brown students, recent graduates earn 37 Fulbright Scholarships
May 23, 2017 News from Brown
Twenty undergraduate and recent alumni will use their Fulbrights in a wide variety of research projects including a study on childhood cancer in the Netherlands, an examination of black identity in Portugal and an exploration of the social context of the Zika epidemic in Brazil.
History Teaches Us Not To Reduce Policing Standards
May 5, 2017 Los Angeles Review of Books Blog
"As the Trump Administration focuses on expansion of border patrol agents by lowering recruitment and admission standards, we would be wise to look back at another time in history in which these agents played a controversial role: the very time in which their standards were put in place." New Op-Ed from CLACS Faculty Affiliate Monica Muñoz Martinez >
Galápagos study identifies keystone predator in a complex food web
May 3, 2017 News From Brown
"Years of experiments and careful observation along the shores of the Galápagos Islands have untangled a complex food web of sea lions, fish, urchins and algae, revealing who eats (or doesn’t eat) whom and what impact they have on each other."
Latin America's Institutional Failure
April 7, 2017 U.S. News
Director of CLACS Jessaca Leinaweaver in US News, "Social inequality exacerbated by poverty and crime before they got to the orphanage is what ultimately cost these children their lives."
Elizabeth Gray to Join CLACS through Interdisciplinary Opportunity
March 17, 2017
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Gray, a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature, has been selected for the Interdisciplinary Opportunity at CLACS, offered earlier this year by the Graduate School.
Open Graduate Education: New Class Gains Tools for Innovative Research
March 8, 2017 Brown University
Brown Graduate School selected 11 PhD students for the Open Graduate Education program, which provides the flexibility and resources to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary field while they earn their doctorates.
Waking the Mexican sleeping giant
February 21, 2017 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "With a barrage of insults and threats, President Trump has begun the process of turning Mexico against us. This could bring the United States something it has never had: an unfriendly country on our border. "
Build Your Own Virtual Mexico Wall
January 30, 2017 BBC
CLACS Faculty Affiliate Peter Andreas discusses the border wall President Trump wants to build between the U.S. and Mexico (Interview starts at 7:11).