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
4:45 pm
Goldwin Smith Hall, G22
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series.
Co-sponsored: Department of History, Department of History of Art & Visual Studies
New colonial histories are being researched and written for the 1500s and 1600s to document the presence of people of the African Diaspora and…
9:00 am
Cornell University
This inter-disciplinary conference brings together experts on questions of climate change, agrarian transformations and labor to help us reflect on the future of work.
Overview
The future of work is hot. Literally. Unpredictable seasons, droughts, floods, warming temperatures, rising seas, and a host…
12:00 pm
429 Rockefeller Hall, 429
The Latina/o Studies Program Fridays with Faculty luncheon seminar offers an opportunity for Latina/o and non-Latina/o students of all levels and disciplines to meet faculty and administrators from across the university for informal conversation about their current research/work in progress. All are welcome!
…4:45 pm
Uris Hall, Conference Room, 153
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS) Seminar Series
The mid-1960s ushered in an era of the belief in technological fixes for many social ills. Chief among these was a push to end global hunger using designer seeds that could yield more and thus feed more people. These seeds, developed in…
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students experience schooling. This trap is consequential for a host of…
1:00 pm
Virtual
In this discussion, Marielena Hincapié, Distinguished Immigration Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School, interviews Jonathan Blitzer, staff writer at The New Yorker and immigration expert, on his recently published book Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of…
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…
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…
12:00 am
Cornell Tech, Roosevelt Island, TBD
Registration Link: https://pitch.emiconference.com/
The registration for the 2024 Cornell EMI Mark Mobius Pitch Competition is NOW OPEN. Apply by 4/10.
The Cornell EMI Mark Mobius Pitch Competition invites student entrepreneurs and recent graduates…