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Sotomayor Publishes New Book, Olimpismo: The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin American and the Caribbean

04/20/2020 - By Kelsey O'Berry This piece was originally published on Recognizing Excellence a website affiliated the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Update: Olimpismo: The...

Argentine Policies Aim to Save Lives Over the Economy

04/13/2020 - by Claire Branigan (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology) Claire Branigan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology who has spent the last year living in Argentina while conducting...

CLACS Awards SGRF Fellowships to 18 Students from across Campus

04/13/2020 - CLACS is pleased to announce that we have award SGRF fellowships to 18 students from across campus. The SGRF fellowship program consists of four awards, Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants,...

Special Message From CLACS Interim Director

03/30/2020 - Dear Colleagues, As you know, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies has suspended public programming for the remainder of the spring semester in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and...

WHAT MIGHT COME OF VENEZUELA’S POLITICAL CRISIS?

12/04/2019 - University of Illinois political science professor and Venezuelan native Damarys Canache ...

NEW BOOK CASTS ANTHROPOLOGIST’S EYE ON CULTURE OF MBA DEGREE, GLOBAL CAPITALISM

11/20/2019 - CLACS faculty member Andrew Orta's new book-“Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture”- studies the...

Blackout in Puerto Rico

09/26/2019 - Join us on September 26, 2019 in the Lucy Ellis Lounge, room 1080 Foreign Language Building (FLB) for a film presentation followed by Q & A with Dr. Antonio Sotomayor, Associate Professor,...