Oct
9
2025
Welcome Reception for MENA, LACS, KMTS
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...
Past Events
Oct
2
2025
Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism
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,...
May
27
2025
PUEBLO, CULTURE AND NATION: False cognates and tense encounters between ECUADORIAN INDIGENISMO and COLD WAR ANTHROPOLOGY
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Please join the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program and the Andean Cultures & Histories working group as we welcome...
May
15
2025
Forging Repertoires: Cathedral Music in New Spain and its Performance by Professor Drew Davies
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...
May
13
2025
The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago
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...
May
5
2025
Natalie Belisle: The art of Inhospitality: Caribbean Aesthetics and the Uninhabitable
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...
Apr
28
2025
Annual Nao Lecture: Between Orientalism and commercial alliances: Argentine and Chilean elites and the Empire of Japan
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...
Apr
8
2025
21st Century Reparatory Justice: From Episodic Moments to the Global Movement
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...
Feb
25
2025
LACS | Histories of Solitude and Perplexity: Colombia Revisited
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...
Feb
24
2025
"Choreographing 'Justice': Dance, Performance and Activism in Contemporary Colombia (Roundtable)
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...
Feb
20
2025
Valeria Coronel Valencia – A Conversation on Humanities in the Public/Cultural Sphere
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...
Feb
19
2025
LACS | Conversations Against the Dollar
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...
Feb
18
2025
Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert | A Book Talk by Barbara Sostaita (University of Illinois Chicago)
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...
Feb
13
2025
"Biocosmism Vitality and the Utopian Imagination in Postrevolutionary Mexico" A Book Talk by Jorge Quintana
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...
Feb
11
2025
LACS | Sonoran Desert Well: Land Art at the Border
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...
Jan
24
2025
Tacos are modernity
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...
Jan
15
2025
ACH | Bartolina Sisa and Ch’ixi Knowledge Production in the Contemporary Andes | Tara Daly (Marquette University)
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....
Dec
3
2024
LACS | A Short History of Capitalist Modernity: Schoolteachers, Rurality, and Culture Production in Peru, 1939-1968
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...
Nov
15
2024
Urban Governance for Sustainable Development: Claudia Lopez
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Please join the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program, the Center for International & Area Studies, and the Political Science...
Nov
6
2024
Colonial Andean Intellectuals and the Questions of Indigeneity and Racism: A Talk by Gonzalo Lamana
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...
Nov
1
2024
LACS | Afro Peruvian Sonic Experiments: The Music of Ale Hop & Laura Robles
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...
Oct
22
2024
LACS | Small Presses of Latin America
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....
Oct
21
2024
LACS | Anarquismos y marxismos en Bolivia, Ecuador, y Perú
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...
Oct
19
2024
Pre-screening of Juntando orillas
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,...
Oct
18
2024
“Juntando Orillas”: Bridging Afro-Diasporic Voices Through Literature
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...
Oct
17
2024
Crossing Waters: escrituras afrolatinoamericanas. Una conversación sobre enajenada and Tidal Waters
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...