Events
Our events include: the LACS seminar series, public issue forums, LACS distinguished annual lecturer, and films from LACS (free) or Cornell Cinema (ticket required) or a joint showing (free).
View recordings of some past events.
Upcoming Events
12:20 pm
Virtual
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.
Co-sponsored by Einaudi's Democratic Threats and Resilience Initiative
After being governed by left-wing populism for most of the 21st century, Ecuador elected right-wing Guillermo Lasso as its new president in 2021. This…
12:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Payments made to non-state armed groups are often treated as predation. But rebels deploy multiple logics when constructing their taxation systems, many of which cannot be reduced to extortion. Rebels also use taxation as a “technology of governance” to resolve a number of social and political challenges related to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Kavita Panjabi (Former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata)
Turtuk is now an Indian village on the India-Pakistan border in the Karakoram mountains, in the contested zone of Baltistan. People in Turtuk who went to sleep in their homes in Pakistan on the 13th of December…
5:00 pm
Rockefeller Hall, Schwartz Auditorium, Room 201
Lund Critical Debate
Climate change has a disproportionate impact on the world’s most vulnerable populations, yet climate crises also impact people across the full spectrum of wealth and power. How do we understand these varied impacts and design climate policy to maximize human well-being and justice on a…
12:20 pm
Statler Hall, 391
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.
Co-sponsors: Departments of Communication, Information Science, and Science & Technology Studies
What does it mean to live in a “datafied” society? Life in media-saturated contexts implies the increasing transformation of people’s…
11:00 am
Virtual
Join us on Zoom to practice your Portuguese skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you…
4:45 pm
Mc Graw Hall, MCG165
As the wife of Jamaica's former Prime Minister, Beverley Manley Duncan conversed with global players such as Fidel Castro, Winnie Mandela, and Pierre Trudeau. In this no-stone-unturned documentary, Beverley forces herself to confront her complicated past. What was it like to be a Black woman seated at the…
12:20 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.
Co-sponsored by Einaudi's Democratic Threats and Resilience Initiative
In this talk, Gabriel Vommaro will present his new Elements, "Conservatives Against the Tide. The Rise of the Argentine PRO in Comparative Perspective…
4:30 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
"iSpraak: A Platform for Second Language Pronunciation Instruction, Assessment, and Research"
Dan Nickolai
Associate Professor of French and Director of the Language Resource Center, Saint Louis University
This presentation will showcase the latest feature developments to the iSpraak…
6:00 pm
Stimson Hall, G25
Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G22
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.
New colonial histories are being researched and written for the 1500s and 1600s to document the presence of people of the African Diaspora and explore their varied experiences in Iberia, the Peruvian highlands, and crossing the early Spanish…