Now Accepting Focus on Faculty News Submissions!
November 28, 2017
Announcements
CLACS Welcomes Providence Latin American Film Festival to Brown!
September 14, 2017
CLACS is thrilled to be hosting five evenings of film screenings as part of the Providence Latin American Film Festival. These will take place in the Joukowsky Forum at the Watson Institute (111 Thayer St.) from September 27 - October 1.
New Fall '17 Course Offering: Sports and Culture in Latin America
July 7, 2017
This course studies soccer, boxing, baseball and lesser-known sports (e.g., ultramarathons and women’s wrestling) in relation to Latin American national narratives, politics, race, and gender. Using tools of sociology and anthropology, among others disciplines, we will study the representation of and discourse about sports in cinema, literature, television, and other media.
Engaged Course Development Grants
May 30, 2017
CLACS invites applications from affiliated faculty or groups of faculty to develop engaged courses with the support of the Center in the academic year 17-18. The Center will award up to $4,000 (total) for one or more initiatives that will support the development of community-engaged courses and related programming for students who are interested in Latin America and the Caribbean. Application Details
Have you published a new book or journal article? Send us your news!
May 8, 2017
Have you published a new book or journal article? Received any awards? CLACS would like to highlight and share your news! Both faculty and student submissions welcomed Send your updates to clacs@brown.edu
Now Accepting Applications for CLACS Undergraduate Fellows Program
April 11, 2017
We are now accepting applications for the 2017-2018 CLACS Undergraduate Fellows Program. The deadline to apply is May 1, 2017
2017 Tinker Field Research Grant Recipients
February 27, 2017
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants.
Sarmiento Research Awards Announced
February 27, 2017
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is proud to announce that it has awarded three research fellowships to graduate students through the Sarmiento Flexible Fund for Latin American Studies, which was established through the generous support of Alfredo C. Cassiet, M.D. and Maria-Elena Cassiet.
CLACS Focus on Faculty - Now Available
February 8, 2017
We are pleased to share with you a new edition of CLACS Focus on Faculty. Our Focus on Faculty newsletter opens a window on the cutting-edge scholarship, pedagogy, and public engagement of our colleagues on Latin America and the Caribbean.
CLACS Undergraduate Award Supports Research on Alternative Youth Culture in Cuba
December 12, 2016
Lily Hartmann, a senior double concentrating in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Development Studies has received a CLACS Undergraduate Research Award to support her Development Studies honors thesis on the history of Cuban cultural policy, alternative music and film production in Havana, and the role of youth in the country’s contemporary social development.
Caribbean Studies @ Brown
December 12, 2016
If you're fascinated by the diversity and complexity of the Caribbean region, the concentration in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACA) can give you a strong, interdisciplinary understanding of culture, history, and contemporary issues in the region, and help you situate the Caribbean within its hemispheric context. See here for two potential LACA course sequences focusing on Caribbean studies.
2017 UNSAM-Brown Exchange Program Participants Announced
December 8, 2016
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Graduate Program in Development are proud to announce this year's participants in the second year of our exchange agreement with Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Brown University invites applications for International Postdoctoral Fellowship
December 1, 2016
Brown University invites applications for a 2-year International Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with a specialization in contemporary Mexican literary, visual, and/or performance studies. We especially welcome applicants working on narrative, poetry or drama about violence, social change and migration in relation to a broader Mexican and Latin American tradition or Mexican and U.S. border studies; a proven interest in film, visual arts, or digital culture and in critical theory is also desirable.
Request for News from CLACS Faculty Affiliates
November 29, 2016
We are now accepting news submissions from our CLACS Affiliated Faculty to be featured in the Spring 2017 installment of the CLACS publication Focus on Faculty.
LACA Concentrator Vi Mai Receives Research Award to Study Politicization of HIV/AIDS in Cuba
November 28, 2016
Vi Mai, a senior double concentrating in International Relations and Latin American & Caribbean Studies has received a CLACS Undergraduate Research Award to support her LACA honor thesis research which centers on analyzing discourses around Cuba's HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Cuban and the Cuban American press.
CLACS Undergraduate Research Award Supports Street Art Project in Valparaíso, Chile
November 22, 2016
Grace Monk (Comparative Literature, '18) has received a CLACS Undergraduate Research Award to support her ongoing work with the Memorias del Territorio project in Valparaíso, Chile.