Puerto el Triunfo
Come enjoy a screening of this acclaimed 2017 documentary and a discussion with the filmmaker, Dr. Jeffrey L. Gould. During the 1970s, El Salvador boasted a vast shrimp industry, and […]
CANCELLED: Music Travels: Transnational Dialogues and Rhythmic Intentions – Martha Gonzalez
*This event has been cancelled.* Dr. Martha Gonzalez (Assistant Professor in the Intercollegiate Chican@ Latin@ Studies Department at SCRIPPS/Claremont Colleges) and bassist Juan Perez, both of the Grammy award-winning band […]
US-Cuba Relations: Where We Go from Here – John Caulfield
The Honorable John Caulfield, former Chief of the US Mission in Havana, will present this talk. Sponsored by the Department of History, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the […]
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CANCELLED: Music as a Liberatory Process – Martha Gonzalez
*This event has been cancelled.* Dr. Martha Gonzalez (Assistant Professor in the Intercollegiate Chican@ Latin@ Studies Department at SCRIPPS/Claremont Colleges) will present this community songwriting workshop. Gonzalez and bassist Juan […]
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The Ancient Maya Landscape: A View from Above – Timothy Murtha
Scholars studying the Classic Maya have long been fascinated by the role of the environment in understanding the rise, fall, and fluorescence of Maya society. First perceived as a limiting […]
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Solidarity Sessions: Racism in the Latinx Community – Rosana Resende
Dr. Rosana Resende (UF Center for Latin American Studies) will examine a history of racial oppression within Latin America and the Latinx diaspora and how it persists to this day. […]
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Babies in Cages: The Dehumanization of Refugees and Immigrants
This conference will analyze the historical patterns of dehumanizing Latina populations as the foreign other and as antagonistic to what is considered the dominant culture of the United States. Conference […]
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A Chi’Xi Gesture: Writing in Spanish in the US Today – Cristina Rivera Garza
The Center for Latin American Studies presents this lecture by Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza, an eminent Mexican writer based at the University of Houston. Dr. Cristina Rivera Garza is Distinguished […]
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Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities – Lenny Ureña Valerio
In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920, Lenny Ureña Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations […]
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A Cultural Conversation through Music – Cristina Pato
From the origins of the Latin languages in Europe to the music of Afro-Spanish South America, the links between the two continents run deep. UF Performing Arts presents musician, writer, […]
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