Events
Past Events
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:30 pm
Statler Hall, 291
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.
This Seminar will be in Spanish.
Muntz Metal, an alloy of copper and zinc, remains a significant find in shipwrecks across the globe. In the 19th century, its introduction revolutionized maritime safety for the British Empire…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.
In 2008, Ecuador emerged at the forefront of the movement to recognize Nature as a subject of law, becoming the first, and to date the only, country to recognize and protect the rights of Nature at the Constitutional level. At the time of…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"Language Policy, (Anti-)Racism, and Change"
Jeff Bale
Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto
This session begins with findings from a policy genealogy (Gale, 2001) of the Heritage Languages Program (HLP) in Ontario and the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
9:00 am
Africana Studies and Research Center
This conference brings together scholars undertaking new research on questions of democratic resistance and sources of resilience in response to global evidence of democratic backsliding.
We will work together to analyze domestic and international factors, including institutions, civil society, political…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
South Asia Program
5:00 pm
A. D. White House, Guerlac Room
Associate Professor Aliyah Khan from the University of Michigan will give a talk titled "Diasporic Devotions: The Indo-Caribbean Islamic Qasida and Gendered Performance" on Thursday, March 21.
The Indo-Caribbean Islamic qasida is a diasporic devotional song that propagates Indian subcontinental…