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...
Past Events
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...