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2024-10-17 -   On October 31st, we are honored to welcome Valerio Bosco, Political Affairs Officer at the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, since 2008. With extensive experience in UN peacekeeping missions and a deep understanding of international relations, Bosco has worked in various conflict and post-conflict regions, including the Central African...

2024-10-16 - Dear colleagues: On behalf of the entire CLACS staff, I want to invite you to our annual reception, on Monday. October 21, beginning at 6pm at Maize at the station [100 N Chesnut St, Champaign IL 61820]. Like our previous receptions, this one is hosted in partnership with the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies. Unlike previous receptions,...

2023-09-14 - The Sustaining Mesoamerican Indigenous Language Event was a huge success! CLACS hosted a 2-day event at the start of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages: Experiences, Strategies, and Community. Guest speakers Celerina Patricia Sanchez Santiago (Poet, Mexico), Elizabeth Alvarado Garduno (UNAM, Mexico), Cuitlahuac Arreola Martinez (California-based Activist and Educator), Jose Sanchez...

2023-09-06 - An exhibition at the Illini Union Art Gallery on Thursday, September 7, will feature photographs of artwork from the Mexican Muralism movement! The opening celebration of "Movement routes, Mexican muralism" begins with a symposium from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the Pine Lounge of the Illini Union. The symposium will feature Ricardo Alvarado Tapia, the coordinator of the Manuel Toussaint Photographic...

2023-09-01 - Join CLACS in congratulating affiliates Flavia Andrade, Erik McDuffie, Mariselle Melendez, Stephen Nesbitt, and Gilberto Rosas for accepting new executive officer appointments in departments and other academic units within the College of LAS!  See list below for position details:  Flavia Andrade, director, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies  Erik McDuffie, acting director,...

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Dr. Faye Harrison (African American Studies, Anthropology) will receive the 2022 Bronislaw Malinowski award from the Society for Applied Anthropology!  The Brownislaw Malinowski Award is presented to an outstanding social scientist in recognition of efforts to understand and serve the needs of the world's societies, and who has actively pursued the goal of solving human problems using...

Dr. Korinta Maldonado's (AIS/Anthropology) and Pixan Konob's work helping CU's Q'anjob'al community overcome language barriers during the pandemic will be honored on Saturday when Dr. Maldonado receives the 2021 Immigrant Leadership Award from the CU-Immigration Forum.  ...

Congratulations to CLACS MA student, Cintia Martins Freitas, who recently published a piece on the role that collective candidacies played in Brazil's recent municipal elections in Red Pepper, a UK-based quarterly focused on culture and politics.  Check out her article here.

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies invites current and prospective CLACS faculty affiliates to submit proposals for possible inclusion in our application to the U.S. Department of Education under Title VI for renewal of its status as a National Resource Center in Latin American and Caribbean Studies for the AY 2022-2026 period. CLACS encourages projects from disciplines and...

CLACS is pleased to welcome a new cohort of Summer Graduate Research and Global South Language Fellows in the new academic year. We are able to offer Summer Graduate Research Fellowships thanks to the generous support of the Tinker Foundation, Norman Whitten, Joseph Love, and the family of Werner Baer.  These fellowships support graduate student research in Latin America.  Due to the...

Three current and former Latin American History Ph.D. students are making waves with important publications in Hispanic American Historical Review, the flagship journal for Latin American History in the US.   Nancy van Deusen's (Ph.D.1993) work, entitled "Indigenous Slavery's Archive in Seventeenth-Century Chile" will be featured in issue 101:1 (Feb. 2021),...

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign stands in solidarity with our colleagues, friends, and family in Peru as they fight to protect democracy in the aftermath of the controversial impeachment of President Martin Vizcarra on November 10th, carried out by political parties in the Peruvian Congress. These actions played a direct role in...

The Illinois Maya Initiative, an interdisciplinary projected housed in CLACS is in the news!  The core research/engagement team, Ryan Shosted (Linguistics), Margarita Teran-Garcia (Human Development and Family Studies), Andrew Orta (Anthropology), Julia Albarracin (Political Science, Western Illinois University), Alejandra Seufferheld (Outreach Coordinator, CLACS), and Kasia Szremski (...

Atmospheric Sciences Professor (and CLACS Affiliate), Stephen Nesbitt, was recently featured in the New York Times for his research storm chasing with the RELAMPAGO project in Argentina.  Click here to read the full article.