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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

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