LACAS Events

Celebrate 50 years of the Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies!

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This fundraiser runs until December 15th. All t-shirts will ship afterward, arriving in late December or early January. You can choose home delivery or have them shipped to LACAS for pick-up at LT1111, Mon-Fri, 12-4 pm at the start of the semester.

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LACAS Events:

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• Past LACAS Events

   2023

  • An open house at Homecoming celebrated LACAS' 50th anniversary.  
  • LACAS Field Trip to NYC: "No existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of María"  which highlighted questions of environmental justice and ongoing colonialism (the first exhibit focused on Puerto Rican Art in a major museum in 50 years), and, in honor of women's history month, Repertorio Theatre's adaptation of Isabel Allende's Eva Luna, in Spanish with English supertitles.

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  2022:

  • Pasados y Futuros: Una Historia de LACAS

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  2019:

  • Café con LACAS (weekly event)
  • Screening of Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (speaker: Carole Boyce Davies)
  • Faculty/Graduate Student/Staff Potluck
  • Drug War Capitalism: Corporate Power, Capital Accumulation and U.S. Drug Enforcement Policy Making (Speaker: Horace Bartilow)
  • Taina Asili y la Banda Rebelde (Free Concert)
  •  ¡Retumba! Echoes of a Sacred Legacy! The Popping workshop: M.A.Z.E. (Movement Activates Zoedic Energy) (Speaker: Jorge "Pop Master Fabel" Pabon)

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  2018:

  • Café con Leche (weekly event)
  • Lessons from El Salvador: The Crisis of Migration  (Speaker: Zulma Tobar of US - El Salvador Sister Cities & Bernardo Belloso, President of the Association for Rural Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES).
  • Fourth Biennial Undergraduate Research Conference: Activism of the Mind: Producing Knowledge of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Diasporas  (Speaker:  Xhercis Mendez) 

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  2017:

  • Pura Belpré: A Puerto Rican Librarian in 1920s NYC (Speaker:  Gladys Jiménez-Muñoz)
  • LACAS Open House

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  2016:

  • "Making Cuban Stars: Reflections on US-Cuban History and Migrations Through Baseball" (Speaker: Adrian Burgos)
  • “From Citizens to Natives: Tropical Politics of Depopulation at the  Panama Canal Zone” (Speaker: Marixa Lasso)
  • “An Island in the Modern World: On Coexistance in Hispaniola” (Speaker: Silvio Torres-Saillant)
  • "Remapping Chinese Medicine Overseas: The Case of Peru" (Speaker: Patricia Palma)
  • "La batalla de los Invisibles: Indocumentados vs. supermercados" - Film Screening (Speaker: Manuel de Alba)
  • "The Currency of Créolité in the Francophone Caribbean" (Speaker: Lydie Moudileno)
  • Third Biennial Undergraduate Research Conference (Speaker: Gladys Jimenez- Muños)
  • "From Amazons to Zombies: The Monstrous Caribbean" (Speaker: Persephone Braham)
  • "Housing is a Human Right! The Dignified Fight for Homes in Mexico City and Beyond" (Speaker: Luis Saracho, Union de vecionos damnificados 19 de septiembre and Mexico Solidarity Network)

  For more information about events from 2015 - 2004 please contact the department.