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...
Past Events
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...
Oct
8
2024
LACS | Book Forum | Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean
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...
Oct
4
2024
WCCIAS Ice Cream Social
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...
Jun
6
2024
LACS End-of-Year Celebration
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Let’s celebrate our LACS community and scholarship over the past couple of years!
May
28
2024
LACS | Climate Change and Transatlantic Slavery – and What It Can Teach Us About the Future
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...
May
21
2024
LACS | Book talk | La historia en ruinas. El culto a los monumentos y a su destrucción
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...
May
17
2024
LACS Archaeology & Heritage | Reconstructing Ecological Networks in the early to mid Holocene Caribbean: Trinidad as a Template
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)...
May
14
2024
LACS | Coca Leaves/ Esx: Decolonizing the History of the Coca Plant through the Ancient Rites of the Nasa Indigenous People
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,...
May
3
2024
LACS | Archaeology & Heritage | From Land to Sea: Human Colonization and the Dynamics of Precolonial Occupation of the West Indian Archipelago
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)...
Apr
26
2024
LACS | Archaeology & Heritage | Tracing the Afrodescendant Archaeological Footprint in Colonial Santo Domingo
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...
Apr
19
2024
LACS | Archaeology & Heritage | Remembering the Unimaginable: Anticolonial Archaeology of Black Amazonian Ancestral Territories
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...
Apr
9
2024
LACS | Milpa Ecologies: Transgenerational Foodways in Tlaxcala, Mexico
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)...
Apr
3
2024
LACS | Conservatives Against the Tide: The Rise of the Argentine PRO in Comparative Perspective
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...
Feb
27
2024
LACS | A Nervous Archive: Popular Print Culture in Latin American / LatinX Art
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...
Feb
16
2024
LACS | Book Forum | Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa
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...
Feb
14
2024
Between faith, activism, and academia: Latin American experiences of intersectionality
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...
Jan
24
2024
The Politics of Religious Freedom in the Inter-American System
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...
Jan
16
2024
LACS | The White Cube and the Handmade at the São Paulo Biennial: Presenting Peruvian Artes Populares as Contemporary Art
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...
Jan
8
2024
Seminar: Conservation of the Mexican Caribbean in Light of Explosive Tourism Growth
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...