12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
On October 25th, incumbent President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was reelected to an unprecedented fourth presidential term, defeating Flávio...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch provided! Join LACS for a talk featuring Arturo Chang (University of Toronto) in discussion with Ana Vedovato (Northwestern, PhD Candidate...
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Join us for day two of Entangled Landscapes: Freedom and Sovereignty in the Caribbean, a conference in memory of Doris...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for day one of Entangled Landscapes: Freedom and Sovereignty in the Caribbean, a conference in memory of Doris...
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Join us for FRÍO Gelato and to learn about our 4 undergraduate programs within the Weinberg College Center for Global...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Join us for a talk with Professor Yuko Miki sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies! By tracing the journey of...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Please join the Colonial Latin American Studies Working Group for a book presentation of Inventories of Ruin: The Demise of...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
A conversation with Prof. Marcela Fuentes on LASTESIS’s groundbreaking performance research. Join us for an exploration of how the collective...
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Join the Colonial Latin American Studies Working Group for a Workshop in Latin American Indigenous Studies on April 23rd from...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Join us for a presentation by Professor Laura Blume sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies! Lunch Provided! Building on over...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Join us for a conversation between Latin Americanist scholars Verónica Zubillaga (UIC) and Lina Britto (Northwestern) on the US intervention...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The last half of the 19th century was for Yucatan, like much of the Atlantic World, a time of extreme...
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
“Operation Absolute Resolve”—the recent US military operation in Venezuela resulting in the capture of its president Nicolás Maduro and his...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Jack Martínez Arias (Hamilton College) presents his most recent novel, Te he seguido, in conversation with Jorge Coronado. The novel...
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for a talk by Buffett Visiting Scholar Georgia Rose, as she explores the psychology behind the Jamaican people...
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Join us for a discussion of Indigenous Yucatec Maya epistemologies and world-building structures through an exploration of iknal, a Yucatec...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
At the start of the Cold War, a group of anthropologists and psychotherapists related to the Cornell-Peru Project at Vicos...
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
The Middle East and North African Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Keyman Modern Turkish Studies programs invite you...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
In the half-century running between 1910 and 1970, Latin American literature acquired, more than at any moment before or since,...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Please join the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program and the Andean Cultures & Histories working group as we welcome...
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Colonial Latin American Studies Working Group will have a book presentation on Forging Repertoires: Cathedral Music in New Spain and its...
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Please join LACS as we welcome Ryan Jobson, Anthropology (University of Chicago) The Petro-State Masquerade considers how postcolonial political futures in...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Natalie Lauren Belisle is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature in the Department of Latin American and Iberian...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Pedro Iacobelli (History, Universidad de los Andes) This presentation explores Latin American views of the growing Japanese presence in the region...
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, a renowned historian, academic leader, and advocate for social justice will address the Northwestern community on...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Please join LACS in celebrating the launch of the recent Routledge series on the history of Colombia. Co-editors Lina Britto...
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Roundtable on the role of dance and theater in struggles for racial and social justice and against racism. With María del...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
This event is designed to share the ways in which a research professor brings her training and experience in the...
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
In this book event, Bruce Carruthers (Sociology) and Hiro Miyazaki (Anthropology) will discuss Ariel Wilkis's new volume, The Dollar: How...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group as they host Barbara Sostaita (UIC) Barbara Andrea Sostaita is a formerly...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Professor Jorge Quintana of Dartmouth College will present his new book, "Biocosmism Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
LACS is delighted to feature Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (Chair of Art, Theory, Practice at Northwestern University) in conversation with independent curator...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Visit and talk of Professor Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Please join ACH and LACS in welcoming Tara Daly of Marquette University. She will present her research on Bartolina Sisa....
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Please join LACS for lunch and a lecture by Dr. Javier García Liendo. With the global expansion of capitalist social...
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Please join the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program, the Center for International & Area Studies, and the Political Science...
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Gonzalo Lamana's How "Indians" Think: Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory offers an alternative interpretation of...
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Join Northwestern LACS, DePaul University, and Indiana University for an exhilarating evening of Afro Peruvian Sonic Experiments. The opening conversation at...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Recent years have seen an explosion in small press activity in Latin America, particularly—but not only—concentrated in its major cities....
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Please join LACS for a conversation on anarchist and Marxist writing in Latin America with the contributors and authors of...
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join us for a special pre-screening of the documentary Juntando Orillas, followed by an engaging conversation with the director, producers,...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Building on a partnership between two cultural initiatives, this panel will discuss the tensions between distinction and community, collectivization and...
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The authors Kianny Antigua and Velia Vidal will dialogue about her works with Andrea Change and Mary Hawley. “enajenada, de Kianny...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Please join LACS at this book forum with author Emily Maguire, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, Northwestern University, in...
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Welcome back to campus for the new academic year! We hope you will join us for an informal ice cream...
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Let’s celebrate our LACS community and scholarship over the past couple of years!
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch will be served at this event. Keron Niles (University of the West Indies, International Relations) will present. He will examine...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch will be served at this book talk by Mauricio Tenorio (University of Chicago, History). Movements such as Black Lives Matter...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
This event is on Zoom, and is part of our Archaeology & Heritage online series. Chike Pilgrim (University of Cambridge, Archaeology)...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch will be served at this event. Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo worked with the Wasak Kwewesx Nasa Indigenous School in the Colombian Andes,...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
This event will be online, and is part of our Archaeology & Heritage series. Benoît Bérard (University of the Antilles, Archaeology)...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
This event will be on Zoom, and is part of our Archaeology & Heritage series. Pauline Kulstad, independent research scholar affiliated...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
This event will take place on Zoom, as part of our Archaeology and Heritage series. We are delighted to welcome Gabby...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch will be served at this event, which is co-sponsored by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR)...
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Food will be served at this event. In this book event, Edward Gibson and James Mahoney will discuss Gabriel Vommaro's new...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
LACS welcomes Sergio Delgado Moya (University of Chicago, Romance Languages & Literatures) for a lunch-time lecture. Food will be served...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Join LACS for a Book Forum discussing Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program as they host...
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Please join the Global Religion and Politics Research Group and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program as they host...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
LACS welcomes Dr. Harper Montgomery of Hunter College, Art and Art History. Related to her current research on the ascent...
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
Northwestern University's Programs in Environmental Science, Environmental Policy and Culture, and Latin American & Caribbean Studies - jointly invite you...
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
TEXTOS ESENCIALES Acompáñenos en una charla con los autores Jorge Coronado y Stephen McNabb. Esta selección de textos esenciales de los...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
What is to be a Latin American or Caribbean Black woman? This question launches my study of Black female’s self-identification...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Dr. James Mestaz will be discussing his recently published book Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in...
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
A faculty colloquium with Dr. Dennis Meade. Lunch will be provided. What is the relationship between space, place, and religious conviction?...
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Author of some of the most influential scholarship on nineteenth-century Colombia and Latin America, Professor Frank Safford passed on June...
