Sep 21, 2017
What is Happening in Venezuela?
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University facilitates the study of this dynamic region from a multidisciplinary perspective. CLACS organizes academic conferences, lectures, and cultural programming, and supports our over 100 faculty affiliates as well as graduate and undergraduates interested in the region. The undergraduate concentration was first approved in 1973 and was later incorporated into the Center for Latin American Studies (eventually renamed CLACS) after its establishment in November of 1984.
Sep 19, 2017
A Conversation with Haitian Author Yanick Lahens
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Meet the Author
Sep 15, 2017
Guantánamo, Going Forward: What's Next for Current and Former Detainees?
9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Petterutti Lounge, Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center
Sep 11, 2017
Stella Nair – From Pumapunki to the Pantheon: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and the Cultural Entanglements Between Rome and the Andes
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Sep 6 – Dec 18, 2017
Art at Watson Presents: PH15 - 15 years of Stories Portrayed by their Protagonists
Weekdays, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Watson Institute, 2nd Floor
Art at Watson
Arts and Culture
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
May 10, 2017
Book Launch – Madhouse: Psychiatry and Politics in Cuban History (Envisioning Cuba)
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 27, 2017
Oluwo Falokun Fasegun
6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Manning Chapel
Apr 24, 2017
Fabiana Li – Nature, Indigeneity and Activism in Peru's Conga Mining Conflict
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 20, 2017
Colombian Peace Communities
A Documentary film screening that traces the lives of displaced Colombians who decided to return en masse to rebuild their villages as peace communities.
6:00 p.m - 7:30 p.m Joukowsky Forum
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Apr 20, 2017
Jamie Rowen – Peace and Justice in Colombia
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Apr 17, 2017
Ana María Ochoa – Silence as Enigma in Latin American and Caribbean Thought
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 13, 2017
Apr 11, 2017
Apr 6, 2017
Peter Andreas – Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Meet the Author
Apr 3, 2017
Virginia Oliveros – A Working Machine: Patronage Jobs and Political Services in Argentina
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 13, 2017
Daniel Party – Víctor Jara's Revolutionary Masculinities
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 9, 2017
Justina Hwang – Cold War Courtships: Peru, Paraguay, Panama and the ROC 1960-1975
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 6, 2017
Mar 2–4, 2017
Mar 1, 2017
CAEMBA: Emerging Bamboo Houses in Ecuador
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 27, 2017
Marcelo Lotufo – Nature Tableaux, Politics and Poetry in Early Nineteenth-Century Latin America
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 16, 2017
Stanton Wortham – Multimedia Representations of a New Latino Diaspora Town
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Population Studies and Training Center Seminar Room, Mencoff Hall
Feb 10, 2017
Florencia Malbrán – Intertwining Histories of the Verbal and the Visual: Art in Contemporary Latin America
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 6, 2017
Karen Graubart – Indian Difference in a Spanish City: The Walling of Santiago del Cercado in 16th Century Lima
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 2, 2017
Julie Nora – Building on Community Assets to Develop Internationally-Minded Students: Why? How? and What?
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. McKinney Conference Room