LACAS BIENNIAL UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE
LACAS Events:
- 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.
2022:
- Pasados y Futuros: Una Historia de LACAS
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)
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)
2017:
- Pura Belpré: A Puerto Rican Librarian in 1920s NYC (Speaker: Gladys Jiménez-Muñoz)
- LACAS Open House
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.
