CLACS legacy and the REAL development Challenges for LATAM regional Economics | Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (2024)For more than 60 years, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has worked to promote innovative research, specialist teaching, and public awareness of the Latin American and Caribbean region: its histories, challenges, and complex connections to the United States and other parts of the world. This conference seminar celebrates and builds upon the extraordinary contributions of Werner Baer and Geoffrey Hewings to the legacy of the Center. Through their inspiring, professional, and selfless work –with CLACS, with the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, and with the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), Professors Baer and Hewing trained several generations of scholars with a deep and lasting impact on the Latin American and Caribbean region.. Through their research these scholars illuminate and help to address the local and regional challenges of the developing countries of Latin America and Caribbean. This seminar extends this academic legacy through discussions of a set of current and emerging social, environmental and macroeconomic challenges to the region. |
Summer Graduate Research Fellowship (SGRF) Conference 2025On Friday, February 7th, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) held its annual Student Graduate Research Fellowship (SGRF) Conference at the Campus Instructional Facility (CIF). The event brought together students from various fields to explore pressing topics surrounding Latin American and Caribbean societies, policies, activism, and environmental challenges. |
Archaeology Conference 2025
On Friday, March 7th, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) hosted the 51st Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory at Davenport Hall, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This two-day event brought together scholars to present and discuss the latest research on archaeology and ethnohistory in the Andean and Amazonian regions, featuring diverse thematic panels covering Ecuador, the Andes, linguistic diversity, and Bolivia. The conference provided a valuable platform for academic exchange and collaboration in the field of Latin American archaeology.