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News and Events

Escaping with Theater: Inmates, Ill, and Poverty-stricken Find Solace

Third Annual UM-UPR Collaborative Symposium: Citizenship and Identity in the Classroom

LACS faculty member and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jason de León's exhibit “State of Exception/Estado de Excepción” featured in the New York Times

LACS welcomes new director, Victoria Langland

Professor Juan Cole’s article in The Nation: “Can the Caribbean’s Tourism Economy Survive Climate Change?

LACS faculty member and Associate Professor of Anthropology Jason de León named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow

LACS Visiting Faculty Spotlight: Ignacio López

Crafting Communities in Oaxaca

LACS Visiting Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Yescas

The Brazil Initiative at LACS welcomes Dr. Gilberto Hochman as a visiting scholar for 2017-2018.

LACS is now accepting proposals for the 2018 University of Michigan - University of Puerto Rico Collaborative Symposium

The Brazil Initiative at LACS brings to campus Dr. Celina Turchi, leading Brazilian Zika researcher

LACS Director Victoria Langland holds office hours every Friday from 11 am to 12 pm

Brazil Initiative at LACS offers scholarship for Portuguese language studies

Jason De León on the anthropological study of undocumented migration between Mexico and the United States

4th Annual University of Michigan - University of Puerto Rico Symposium to take place May 3 and 4, 2018

LACS welcomes interim director

LACS and Brazil Initiative Summer Recap 2018

LACS is now accepting proposals for the 2019 University of Michigan - University of Puerto Rico Collaborative Symposium

Brazil Initiative at LACS offers scholarship for Portuguese language studies

From Caravan to Exodus, from Migration to Movement

LACS receives grant from the Tinker Foundation; U-M International Institute and Rackham Graduate School match funds

U-M anthropologist uses 3,000 toe tags to highlight humanitarian crisis at US-Mexico border

LACS staff member receives LSA Rising Star Award for the Humanities division

LACS faculty affiliate Silvia Pedraza was interviewed on NPR regarding sanctions against Cuba

U-M Hosts Visiting Scholars from the University of Puerto Rico

Falafel, Frijoles, and Flan: The Middle East to Latin America

LACS Lecture Series “Central American Contexts” Launched October 3, 2019

Peruvian archaeology spurred lecturer’s interest in Latin America

LACS congratulates our 2020 graduates

Marisol Fila receives Alfredo D. & Luz Maria P. Gutierrez Dissertation Award

LACS receives Tinker Field Research Collaborative Grant

Black Lives Matter - As Vidas Negras Importam - Las Vidas Negras Importan

LACS and Brazil Initiative Summer Recap 2020

In Memoriam: Juan R. Hernández García

The LACS Brazil Initiative awards Scholarships for Portuguese Language Studies to fourteen undergraduate students

Lauren Whitmer receives the 2021-2022 Alfredo D. & Luz Maria P. Gutierrez Dissertation Award

Bolivian documentary protagonist Basilio Vargas visits Dr. Howard Tsai’s LACS 321 course: “Indigenous Communities vs. Globalization in South America”

Protests in Cuba: The beginning of a new revolution?

Congratulations to this year's recipients of the Portuguese Language Scholarships!

Alexander Stephens receives the 2022-2023 Alfredo D. & Luz Maria P. Gutierrez Dissertation Award

LACS welcomes new director, Gavin Arnall

Collaborative Curricula in Puerto Rico

LACS seeks applications for the 2024-2025 Afro-Brazilian Studies Research and Teaching Fellow

LACS Welcomes Ryan B. Morrison

Letter from LACS Director Gavin Arnall

In the News: Educators Workshop

LACS affiliate Howard Tsai is quoted in Huffington Post's article “Star Wars Languages Owe to Tibetan, Finnish, Haya, Quechua, and Penguins”

Cuba ante el restablecimiento de relaciones con EEUU: la ideología y las divisas

Gender perspectives in Puerto Rican childhood education

University professors talk U.S., Cuban diplomatic relationship

Panel on re-establishing US-Cuba relations: Walking the tightrope for success

Goodbye, Comadre

U-M professor and daughter of Cuban exiles on new policy toward Cuba

The Fantasy of a Cuba Where Time Stood Still

Brazil Initiative at LACS supports U-M specialists interested in Brazil's successful milk bank model

Panelists talk missing Mexican students

Pope Francis and the future of religion in Latin America

New Journal: Política común

New Journal: Translating the Americas

LACS in Local News

Two New Books by LACS Graduates

We Mourn the Passing of John Manuel Monteiro

A Report on Digital Culture in Columbia

International Institute Addresses Zika Virus Concerns

Zika and abortion: will the virus prompt Latin America to rethink abortion and birth control?

Conference to discuss US-Brazil research

The sinister, secret history of a food that everybody loves

Archived Events | 2008-15

Child Labor, International Law, and the Politics of Decolonization in Bolivia

II Career Event: U.S. Department of Labor

LACS Lecture: Why Is Development So Elusive to Latin American Countries? Should Development Mean Something Different in Latin America than in the Rest of the World?

LACS Lecture: Learning from Indigenous Community Partners in Guatemala

LACS Lecture. “Whiteness, Blackness and Impossible Mestizaje in Buenos Aires”

LACS Conference. “2015 Tinker Award Field Research”

LACS Lecture. “Syrian Migration to Latin America: The Continued Role of Grassroots Organizations”

LACS Conference. “2015 Tinker Award Field Research”

Día de los Muertos: Daniel Gonzalez Opening Reception

LACS Conference. “2015 Tinker Award Field Research”

School of Social Work Lecture. “Crisis in Context Conference: Central American Migration & Social Justice”

Beyond Adequacy: Hydro-Electrics and Mayan Power in the Terminal Modern

Traffickers Cross Borders: Legal Solutions

Mirrored Mountains: A Panel on Mayan Language, Folktales, and Community around Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

Film Screening: Body Games. Capoeira and Ancestry

History, Health, and Rights in Guatemala

“Why do they flee” with Padre Melo

UMS Performance. Gilbertos Samba: Gilberto Gil, vocals and guitar

Artist Interview: Gilberto Gil

U-M/UPR Symposium. Negotiating Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in a New Global Age

Pre-Departure Information Session for students traveling to Guatemala

Thoughts on Brazil's Present and Future

2015 Tinker Field Research Grants Info Session

Re-establishing U.S.-Cuba Relations: Walking the Tightrope for Success

MOMENTUM, a screenplay by Puerto Rican playwright Cindy Sanabria, adapted for the stage by Anita Gonzalez

Brazil Initiative: Bate Papo with FIOCRUZ guests: Simone Kropf and Gilberto Hochman

2014 Tinker Award Field Research Conference

Land, Territory and Evo’s “State of Paradox”: Anthropological Untangling

Mexico's Missing 43: What Happened to the Students in Guerrero?

2014 Tinker Award Field Research Conference

2014 Tinker Award Field Research Conference

LACS Student Organization Recruitment Fair

Cuba: An Agroecological Revolution

The Migration Lessons We're Missing: Caribbean Borderlands and Historical Blindness

2014 Arthur Aiton Lecture: "The Migration Lessons We're Missing: Caribbean Borderlands and Historical Blindness"

The Socialist Humanitarian Imperative: The Logic and Practice of Cuba's Quest for Global Health in the Americas

A Transformative Approach to Global Service-Learning: Opportunities, Challenges and Lessons Learned from the Field

Pope Francis and the Future of Religion in Latin America

Tinker Award Field Research Workshop 2: "Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability in Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru"

Tinker Award Field Research Workshops

Fiction & Performance as Public Histories of Slavery & Race: Perspectives from Latin America

"Brazil: History, Human Rights, and Contemporary Slavery"

Assessing the Chicano Movement

"Quijote's Soldiers": A Local History of the Chicano Movement

Sociolinguistic Continuities in Language Contact Situations: The Case of Portuguese in Contact with Spanish Along the Uruguayan-Brazilian Border--A LACS Bate Papo Talk

“Fighting is Very Hard Work”: Labor and Soldiering in the US-Mexican War, 1846-1848

Perspective on Reproductive Health in Ecuador

Rebels, Revolutionaries and Exiles in New York, Mexico And Havana: Tracing the Transnational Networks and Diasporas of Activists in the Greater Circum-Caribbean 1918-1940

Gilberto Gil Concert

A New Insurgency: <i>The Port Huron Statement in its Time and Ours</i>

The New Cuba and the Impact of the New Cuban Diaspora on Transforming the Homeland

From Fesiten to <i>Fesibuku</i>: The Changing Uses of Saamaka History

The Scot and the Aborigine: <i>La Différence</i> Writ Large

Montevideo Takes Manhattan: The Latin American Provenance of the Global Children’s Health/Children’s Rights Movement

A Commemoration of the Life and Work of Fernando Coronil

Commemoration of the Life of Fernando Coronil

The Ritual Boundaries of Las Varas

A Screening of the Film <i>When the Mountains Tremble</i>

Resilience and End of the Brazilian Slave Trade: Long Term Causes and Outcomes

Atlantic History and South Atlantic History: An Appraisal

Ten Years of Researching Mexican Immigrants and their Religious Life in the U.S.A.

Transforming Landscapes in Andean Societies

Doces e bárbaros: contracultura e baianidade nos anos 70”

Women, Turn the Tables!

Film Screening of <i>Cuba: An African Odyssey</i>

Turntable Takeover: Musical Alliances Among Queer Women of Color

Under Color of Law: Contemporary Slavery and the Uses of History

Author’s Forum: A Conversation with Rebecca Scott and Jean Hébrard

Social Interaction and Racialization in the Southern Andes

Haiti’s Legacy: Tragedy and Beauty

Caring, Protecting, Policing: Unveiling the Rhetorics of the Guardian

They Always Knew Her to be Free: Emancipation and Re-Enslavement in French Santo Domingo, 1804-1809

"Escritura Acto" Workshop with Puerto Rican artist Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya

Translation/Traducción

The Persistence of State Strength and Weakness in Latin America

Bate-Papo Lecture Series: Slaves' Savings in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

Bate-Papo Lecture Series: The Jews of Rio de Janeiro

Crossing the Boundaries of Race, Religion, and Desire: The Life of Ramón Novarro

Networks of Diaspora: Migration, Exchange, and Anti-Racism in Cuba, Haiti, and the US (1880-1912)

Palo Monte: Straight from Africa:<br>Afro-Cuban Ritual Tongues<br>A Workshop

The Afro-Colombian Community of San Basilio de Palenque and its New Role as UNESCO's “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity"

Conference on Latin American Institutions, Politics, and Policies

Back from the Archives: Atlantic Exchanges

Cuban Hip Hop Group Obsesion, featuring DJ Sabor

Slavery Against the Law: Enslavement and Human Trafficking in Historical Perspective, from the Amistad Captives (1839) to Siliadin v. France

What's Next for Cuba? Hip Hop and Beyond

International Institute Reception in Honor of 2011 Graduates and Departmental Award Recipients

A Reading by Poet Ernesto Cardenal

From Whiteness to Diversity: Crossing the Racial Threshold in Bicentennial Argentina--A Lecture by Teresa Ko

Human Rights & Family Rights of Same-Sex Couples in Brazil

The Body of the Enemy: Organ Theft During Wartime, Conflict and Political Chaos

Imagining Ecuador

The Ups and Downs of Whiteness: The Chameleonic Body of Ramón Emeterio Betances

Bate-Papo Lecture Series: Raízes do Samba: Race. Class, Culture, and the Search for Brazil’s Origins

Fandango, Diferencia, Jarocho, Cielito lindo and Chile verdes…

Middle-Class Musicians? Beyond Music, Identity, and the 'Poverty Equation' in Brazil

A Talk with Lina Meruane

Guitar Workshop with Scholar and Performer Eloy Cruz

The World Percussion Ensemble with the U-M Mens' Glee Club

Water Conflicts and Technological Solutions to Climate Change: An Historical Analysis from the Peruvian Andes

Water and Ice in the Andes: A Century of Climate Change, Glacier Disasters, and Hydro-Social Conflicts

A Screening of "Leo's Room" or "El Cuarto de Leo"

Indios Conquistadores: Local Legacies of the Conquest of Mexico--A presentation by visiting ethno-historian, Yanna Yannakakis

Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, me and THE WORLD--A monologue by Gina Ulysse that weaves spokenword with Vodou chants

Mesa Redonda Perú y Ecuador--Guillermo Bustos

Bate Papo Series: Enslavement and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil and Uruguay--A Discussion with Keila Grinberg, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Bate Papo Series: O olhar do turista afro-americano sobre o Brasil--A discussion with Patricia de Santana Pinho, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at SUNY Albany

The Caribbean at the Epicenter of History: Haiti, the Earthquake, and Transmigration

Spanish Paleography Workshop

Stuart Rockefeller, "House, Field, Bolivia, Buenos Aires: Performing Geographies"

Bate Papo Series, Jose Luiz Passos, "Familia, tecnologia e o romance no Brasil"

Arnaldo Cruz Malave, "Between Irony and Adoration: New York Hispanic Caribbean Cultural Expression and the Queer Underground"

Eduardo Elena, "Journeys to the Land of the People: Cold War Radicals, Populism, and the Public in Argentina"

Daniel Goldstein, "Indigenous Justice and the Migrant Community in Bolivia"

Ashli White, "Object Lessons in Revolution"

Brodwyn Fischer, "A Poverty of Rights"

Norge Espinosa, "Una Isla en Tonos de Rosa: Otros Cuerpos y Deseos para Pensar a Cuba"

Bate Papo Series, Idelber Avelar, "Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship"

To cut the bonds of slavery/ Couper la corde de l?esclavage/ Dok bumu jaam

New Trends in the History of Health and Illness in Latin America

Antonio Luciano Tosta, "Quando a Globalização Esbarra na Tradição: Renovação e Resistência nas Músicas de Capoeira"

Fernando Arenas, "African and Brazilian Interconnections in the ‘Lusophone Transatlantic Matrix’"

Victoria Langland, "Memory Across Generations: The Meanings of 1968 in Military Brazil"

Catalina Romero, "Religion, Civil Society, and Politics: The Impact of Democratic Awareness in Chuch and Society"

Adrienne Pine, "Honduras and 21st Century Fascism: Have the Masks Come Off?

Acaizeiro presents "Rio in Janeiro"

Laurent Dubois, "The Empire of Soccer in 20th Century France"

Graduate Workshop, "Revolución, emancipación, y ciudadanía: entre la revolución de Haití y la guerra de 1912 en Cuba”

Bernardo Vega - Contemporary Dominican-Haitian Relations

Puerto Rican & American Perspectives on the Cultural Turn: A Symposium on the Writing of History

MY TIME WILL COME - Ecuador (Global Lens Film Series)

“Moments in a Postponed Abolition: Imperial Spain and the Problem of Slavery" Josep Fradera

Peronist Argentina Reconsidered: New Evidence on Peron's Foreign Economic Policy

POSSIBLE LIVES - Argentina (Global Lens Film Series)

Democracy in Latin America Panel Discussion

Business Beyond Borders

Professor Maria Elena Martinez Presents

MUTUM (EDU) - Brazil (Global Lens Film Series)

In concert! Gal Costa and Romero Lubambo.

Who is Gal Costa?

Citizenship à la Carte: Emigration and the Sovereign State - Professor David Fitzgerald

Introducing Eloisa Cartonera

Tom O'Donnell presents ’Can Iran, China and Russia Help Chavéz Boost Oil Production and 'Escape the Market of el Imperio'

Jacinto Barrera Bassols presents

Nilo Cruz - Pultizer Prize Winning Playwright

Welcome Back Reception

A Quantum of Anti-Imperialism? U.S.-Bolivian Relations in the Age of Evo Morales and James Bond

Professor Marcia Ochoa Lecture - "Sacar el Cuerpo": Transformista and Miss Embodiment in Venezuela

New Perspectives on Latin America and the US - Noon Lecture Series

New Perspectives in Latin America and the US - Noon Lecture Series

Bate Papo Series

A Journey to Jewish Cuba

Sixth Symposium University of Puerto Rico (UPR)/University of Michigan (U-M)

Advisory Committees

U-M Library LACS Resources

Open Access Digital Journals