Oct
15
2026
Entangled Landscapes: Freedom and Sovereignty in the Caribbean - Day 1
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Join us for Entangled Landscapes: Freedom and Sovereignty in the Caribbean, a conference in memory of Doris L. Garraway.
Past Events
Oct
8
2026
Weinberg College Center for Global Studies Ice Cream Social
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...
May
19
2026
The Last Slave Ship: Searching for African Counterhistories from Boston to the Brazilian Amazon
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...
May
18
2026
Inventories of Ruin: The Demise of the Mexican Jesuits, in Three Acts
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...
May
13
2026
Feminist performance in times of rising fascism, Colectivo LASTESIS (Daffne Valdés and Sibila Sotomayor V.) in Conversation with Marcela Fuentes
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...
Apr
23
2026
Workshop in Latin American Indigenous Studies
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...
Apr
21
2026
Anatomy of a Rural Honduran Cocaine Hub
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...
Feb
24
2026
Venezuela and the Crisis of Democracy in the Americas
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...
Feb
3
2026
Road Work: Trailing Indigenous Infrastructures of the Maya Social War
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...
Jan
16
2026
Absolute Resolve & Its Aftermath: Assessing US Action in Venezuela & What’s Next
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...
Jan
13
2026
Te he seguido: Jack Arias in Conversation with Jorge Coronado
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...
Jan
6
2026
Trauma Responses as a Means of Survival in Jamaica with Visiting Scholar Georgia Rose
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...
Nov
17
2025
Dr. Juan Castillo Cocom - Iknal: Companionship and the Politics of Forgetting
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...
Nov
11
2025
Field of Dreams: Collecting Indigenous Inner Thoughts in the Midcentury Peruvian Andes
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nov
15
2023
ANARQUISMOS Y MARXISMOS EN BOLIVIA, ECUADOR Y PERÚ
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...
Nov
7
2023
Black Womanhood and Self-Identification in Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Literatures
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...
Oct
24
2023
LACS Lunch | Strength from the Waters: A History of Indigenous Mobilization in Northwest Mexico
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...
Oct
17
2023
LACS | Faculty Colloquium | Race, Politics, and Religious Placemaking in Jamaica
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?...
Oct
6
2023
Frank Safford Symposium
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...