Apr 5, 2014
Alexander Benitez ─ 'Rediscovering' PreColumbian Central America
4 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
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.
Apr 4, 2014
Mar 15, 2014
Mar 13, 2014
Mar 5, 2014
Mar 3, 2014
Paja Faudree ─ Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 27, 2014
Ollie Johnson ─ The Politics of Affirmative Action in Brazil
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 26, 2014
Arnulf Becker ─ Mestizo International Law: A Global Intellectual History (1842-1933)
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 20, 2014
Feb 19, 2014
Brian Rawson '93 ─ Tackling the Global Food Crisis from the Grassroots Up
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 12, 2014
Argentina Today and Tomorrow: Prospects and Challenges
2 p.m.-6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Dec 5, 2013
Nov 20, 2013
Edith López Ovalle ─ Mexico's Solidarity Networks
5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 19, 2013
Nov 13, 2013
Jacqueline Loss ─ The Cuban Soviet Imaginary post-1989
5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 30, 2013
Gina Chavez ─ Latin Folk Rock Performance
7 p.m. Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street
Oct 28, 2013
Felix Murchi ─ Processes of Social Change in Bolivia
5 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 23, 2013
Justin Read ─ Transparent Force: Nihilism and the Built Environment of Buenos Aires
5:30 p.m. Rochambeau House, 84 Prospect Street
Oct 23, 2013
Screening of Los autos de Caracas
5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 22, 2013
Yailenis Mulet Concepción ─ Decentralization and Socialism in Cuba
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 17, 2013
Oct 15, 2013
Screening of Gold Fever
Gold Fever witnesses the arrival of Goldcorp Inc to a remote Guatemalan village. Caught in the crosshairs of a global frenzy for gold, Diodora, Crisanta and Gregoria resist the threat to their ancestral lands in the face of grave consequences.
5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 10, 2013
Oct 3, 2013
Screening and discussion of the film No
6 p.m. Avon Cinema, 260 Thayer Street
Sep 25, 2013
Screening of Patricio Guzmán's film "Nostalgia de la luz"
6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Joukowsky Forum