Guests at The 20th Annual Waggoner colloquium
Dr. Stephen Goddard, Spencer Museum of Art, presenting at The 20th Annual Waggoner Colloquium
The 20th Annual Waggoner Colloquium
Guests at The 20th Annual Waggoner Colloquium
Dr. Matias Cafaro, University of Puerto Rico, presenting at The 50th Anniversary Conference, Saturday, Nov. 19th, 2011
Dr. Marshall Eakin, Vanderbilt University, presenting at The 50th Anniversary Conference, Saturday, Nov. 19th, 2011
Dr. Brent Metz, KU Anthropology, presenting at the 50th Anniversary Conference, Saturday, Nov. 19th, 2011
Latin Americanist organizations promote their presence on campus during The 50th Anniversary Conference
Dr. Christopher M. Schumm, Vice President, Morgan Stanley, KC, presents during The 50th Anniversary Conference
Latin Americanist organizations promote their presence on campus during The 50th Anniversary Conference
Latin American Studies graduate students at The 50th Anniversary Banquet - Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Guests at The 50th Anniversary Banquet - Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Associate Professor of History Anton Rosenthal; CLAS Dean, Danny Anderson; Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies, Katherine Preston; and Kimberly Anderson at the 50th Anniversary Banquet - Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little speaking at the 50th Anniversary Banquet - Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Former Director of the Center, Dr. Charles Stansifer and Mary Miller at the 50th Anniversary Banquet - Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Recognition of Dr. Anita Herfeld and her many accomplishments at the 50th Anniversary Banquet - Saturday, November 19th, 2011
News
University of Kansas Geographer William Woods quoted in the New York Times : 
: Professor of Geography, William Woods was quoted in a recent New York Times article. Woods has been studying geoglyphs in Brazil near the Amazon rain forest. Click the link to read the entire article. Posted Jan 18, 2012
: Professor of Geography, William Woods was quoted in a recent New York Times article. Woods has been studying geoglyphs in Brazil near the Amazon rain forest. Click the link to read the entire article. Posted Jan 18, 2012Former Latin American Studies Masters Student and KU athlete wins Brazil’s version of ‘The Apprentice’ :
Jana Correa, a former KU volleyball player who attended KU for both her Undergraduate and Graduate career is the next Brazilian Apprentice! Correa who was a MA student in Latin American studies and president of BRASA during her last year at KU was accepted to be a contestant on the Brazilian television show this summer. For winning the show, Correa received about $800,000 in U.S. dollars, a new car, a painting by Brazilian artist Romero Britto valued at about $50,000 in U.S. dollars and a one-year contract for a new job. Congratulations JANA form everyone in Latin American Studies!! Posted Jan 6, 2012
Jana Correa, a former KU volleyball player who attended KU for both her Undergraduate and Graduate career is the next Brazilian Apprentice! Correa who was a MA student in Latin American studies and president of BRASA during her last year at KU was accepted to be a contestant on the Brazilian television show this summer. For winning the show, Correa received about $800,000 in U.S. dollars, a new car, a painting by Brazilian artist Romero Britto valued at about $50,000 in U.S. dollars and a one-year contract for a new job. Congratulations JANA form everyone in Latin American Studies!! Posted Jan 6, 2012
KU anthropologists help re-wrap Amazonian mummy :
A University of Kansas anthropologist and two KU graduate students recently coordinated the ritual re-wrapping of a 450-year-old Amazonian mummy in Tarapoto, Peru.
Bartholomew Dean, associate professor of anthropology, and graduate students Joshua Homan and Sydney Silverstein coordinated the ritual re-wrapping at the National University of San Martin Regional Museum.
Please read the full story by clicking on the link above. Posted Jan 6, 2012
A University of Kansas anthropologist and two KU graduate students recently coordinated the ritual re-wrapping of a 450-year-old Amazonian mummy in Tarapoto, Peru.
Bartholomew Dean, associate professor of anthropology, and graduate students Joshua Homan and Sydney Silverstein coordinated the ritual re-wrapping at the National University of San Martin Regional Museum.
Please read the full story by clicking on the link above. Posted Jan 6, 2012
Site Updates:
* Field Research Grant Applications, Stansifer Award Applications, and LAS Graduate Research Competition Abstracts DUE: MARCH 14th!
*Digital Versions of ALL the cultural trunks are now available!
Welcome
Welcome to the Center of Latin American Studies (CLAS), established in 1961; committed to a long standing Latin American Studies program of substance and depth. Since our founding The Center has repeatedly received "National Resource Center" (NRC) funding and, thanks to an intensive grant-writing effort led by our more than 123 core and affiliate faculty members, we are again proud to hold that title. Ending a four year drought, CLAS has regained the coveted Title VI NRC Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which will help us achieve many of our goals over the next coming years.
One of those goals is to continue to strengthen our undergraduate and graduate programs with many opportunities for travel and study. This year we are happy to continue that tradition with the receipt of Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for students for both the academic year and summer!
Come check out our weekly brown-bag Merienda every Thursday in Bailey 318 from 12-1pm!
LA Center Events
02/13/2012
All Day
Off Campus
The Johns Hopkins University Program in Latin American Studies announces a Call for Papers for its Spring Conference, Rethinking Law and Legality: Critical Approaches to Law and Lawlessness in Latin America, with Dr. Rachel Sider (CIESAS-Mexico City) as the Keynote Speaker.
The conference will be held on April 27, 2012 in Baltimore on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins.
Please e-mail a title, an abstract (about 200 words), academic affiliation, and contact information in a word document to jhuplas@gmail.com by February 13, 2012. Presentations must be in English.
02/15/2012
All Day
Off Campus
On behalf of the Juntos Center for Advancing Latino Health, the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Region VII, you are cordially invited to attend:
The Affordable Care Act: Implications for a Growing Latino Population
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Varnes 4024, School of Nursing
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas
02/15/2012
All Day
Off Campus
The Outstanding Article Award acknowledges scholarship marked by methodological sophistication, complex and critical engagement with dramatic texts and performances, focused inquiries, and possible directions for future scholarship in a particular area.
Articles must be nominated by an editor of a journal in which the article was published during 2011. Self-nominations and nominations from ATHE members are also permitted.
Three copies of the article, along with a brief letter of nomination, should be submitted electronically to the Chair of the Outstanding Article Award Committee:James Fisher - ajfisher@uncg.edu
You can find the online nomination form at https://m360.athe.org/admin/forms/ViewForm.aspx?id=22790
02/16/2012
12:00 PM
Bailey Hall
The Center's Merienda lectures, held most Thursdays during the fall and spring semesters, provide an opportunity for invited students, faculty, community members and visiting scholars to share their experiences and research in Latin America.
The speakers represent a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. Presentations typically last 40-45 minutes and allow for audience questions at the end. A simple lunch of rice and beans is served.
Meriendas take place in Bailey Hall, Room 318 from 12:00-1:00pm.
For Merienda photos, please see our Events Photos webpage.
02/20/2012
All Day
Hall Center
The Richard and Jeannette Sias Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities provides the successful applicant with one academic year of support to focus entirely on the dissertation. The primary goal of the Fellowship is to ensure the completion of the dissertation by the end of the academic year during which the fellowship is held. The fellowship also seeks to expand the Fellow's experiences beyond a single disciplinary focus, and to produce humanities scholars whose vision for their careers includes a commitment to interdisciplinary endeavors and a desire to share that commitment with the world outside of the academy. This program seeks well-rounded students who demonstrate the ability to make outstanding contributions in their chosen humanities disciplines as well as an interest in both interdisciplinary studies and community outreach.
Other LA Events
02/21/2012
7:00 PM
KU Edwards Campus - Regnier Hall
Soprano Sarah Tannehill, clarinetist Elena Lence Talley and pianist Dan Velicer will perform their Music of the Americas concert. This colorful and vivacious program highlights the works of U.S., Canadian and Latin American composers.
Call for Papers
02/13/2012
All Day
Off Campus
The Johns Hopkins University Program in Latin American Studies announces a Call for Papers for its Spring Conference, Rethinking Law and Legality: Critical Approaches to Law and Lawlessness in Latin America, with Dr. Rachel Sider (CIESAS-Mexico City) as the Keynote Speaker.
The conference will be held on April 27, 2012 in Baltimore on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins.
Please e-mail a title, an abstract (about 200 words), academic affiliation, and contact information in a word document to jhuplas@gmail.com by February 13, 2012. Presentations must be in English.
02/15/2012
All Day
Off Campus
The Outstanding Article Award acknowledges scholarship marked by methodological sophistication, complex and critical engagement with dramatic texts and performances, focused inquiries, and possible directions for future scholarship in a particular area.
Articles must be nominated by an editor of a journal in which the article was published during 2011. Self-nominations and nominations from ATHE members are also permitted.
Three copies of the article, along with a brief letter of nomination, should be submitted electronically to the Chair of the Outstanding Article Award Committee:James Fisher - ajfisher@uncg.edu
You can find the online nomination form at https://m360.athe.org/admin/forms/ViewForm.aspx?id=22790
02/20/2012
All Day
Hall Center
The Richard and Jeannette Sias Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities provides the successful applicant with one academic year of support to focus entirely on the dissertation. The primary goal of the Fellowship is to ensure the completion of the dissertation by the end of the academic year during which the fellowship is held. The fellowship also seeks to expand the Fellow's experiences beyond a single disciplinary focus, and to produce humanities scholars whose vision for their careers includes a commitment to interdisciplinary endeavors and a desire to share that commitment with the world outside of the academy. This program seeks well-rounded students who demonstrate the ability to make outstanding contributions in their chosen humanities disciplines as well as an interest in both interdisciplinary studies and community outreach.
02/24/2012
All Day
Off Campus
Program participants learn from experts at the forefront of policy reform and advocacy, coalition building and direct service. Interactive workshops are paired with site visits throughout New York City offering participants a robust understanding of both the theory and practice of leadership and social change. Participants emerge with an understanding of social change leadership, a plan for taking action in their school or community, and a network of other advocates committed to social justice.
02/28/2012
All Day
All university
We are currently seeking individuals who are interested in applying to participate in our School Enrichment Programs in Costa Rica and Nicaragua for Summer 2012. Many of our international volunteers are college and university students, and many of them have studied Spanish and/or Hispanic Studies. Because of the interest that our programs may have for students studying Spanish or Hispanic Studies, much of our volunteer recruiting effort is directed towards Spanish and Hispanic Studies departments and students on the college and university level.
The deadline to submit applications for our Summer 2012 programs is February 28, 2012. For more information visit Global Learnings website at http://www.globallearninginternational.org/.
02/29/2012
All Day
Off Campus
CUALLI Latin American and Iberian Food Studies Review invites submissions of multidisciplinary research articles with a focus on food symbolic, production, and consumption systems in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Submission Guidelines:
Articles may not exceed 7,500 words, in times new roman font 12, double-space, Citations (author, page) should be in parenthesis and integrated into text.
Article's title and abstract (150 words) in both original language and English should accompany the work.
Please enclose brief CV (academic degree, present position, address, phone and fax numbers, and email)
Send one electronic copy to dcollflo@kennesaw.edu and one hard copy to the following address:
Kennesaw State University
Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies
1000 Chastain Rd
MD2303 WH 23 Rm 223
Kennesaw, GA 30101
02/29/2012
All Day
Off Campus
Latin American and Iberian Food Studies Review invites submissions of multidisciplinary research studies with a focus on food symbolic, production, and consumption systems in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal.
Articles may not exceed 7,500 words, in times roman font 12, double-space. Citations (author, page) should be in parenthesis and integrated into the text. Article's title and abstract (150 words) in both original language and English should accompany the work. Please enclose brief CV (academic degree, present position, address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail.)
Send one electronic copy to dcollflo@kennesaw.edu and one hard copy to: Kennesaw State University, Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, 1000 Chastain Rd., MD2302 WH 23 Rm 223, Kennesaw, GA, 30101 EUA
Deadline: February 29, 2012
03/02/2012
All Day
Off Campus
The University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies will sponsor Library Travel Research Grants for summer 2012. Their purpose is to enable faculty researchers from other U.S. colleges and universities to use the extensive resources of the Latin American Collection in the University of Florida Libraries, thereby enhancing its value as a national resource. The grants are funded by a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
All applications must be filed electronically. To apply for a Library Travel Grant, send a letter of intent, brief library research proposal, travel budget, and CV to:
Alisa Woofter
Center for Latin American Studies
342 Grinter Hall
Telephone: 352-273-4046
E-mail: awoofter@ufl.edu
03/05/2012
All Day
Off Campus
We invite you to share your unique and imaginative work at the 2012 LACIS Graduate Student Conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Gender, Identity, Borders, Language and Culture, Historical Perspectives, Challenges to Education, Economic Development, Migration and Immigration, Cultural Change and Conflict, Implications of Globalization, Environmental Consequences, Political Trends in Latin America, Nationalism and Ethno-nationalism, etc These themes are only guidelines, and we welcome all proposals from any discipline and on any topic that emphasizes the dynamics and fluidity of the study of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Iberia.
03/08/2012
All Day
Off Campus
Graduate students in any discipline are invited to submit abstracts for Traversing Borders, the first Annual UCR Art History Graduate Student Conference, on May 12, 2012. The conference provides a forum for graduate students to question borders and boundaries"to delineate, critique, move through or reconfigure their role in the analysis of art and art history. Contributions engaging any medium (armor, dance, sculpture, print media, photography, architecture, film, painting, performance, etc.), time period, race/ethnicity, gender and region are welcome.
Papers may consider the notion of boundaries and borders in relation to artistic production, historiography, methodology or reception.
03/09/2012
All Day
Off Campus
This conference provides an opportunity for faculty, graduate instructors, and administrators to share expertise in building and managing CLAC programs. The conference will address the practical issues related to developing successful pedagogical models for the use of world language and culture learning across the post-secondary curriculum.
03/30/2012
All Day
Off Campus
The colloquium focuses primarily on the language, literature and culture of Latin American and Iberian, but interdisciplinary submissions will also be accepted from related areas including Service Learning and Cross-Cultural Experiences.
Please send a one-page abstract of approximately 250 words as an MS-Word document that clearly identifies the aim(s) of the paper, the rationale of the study, and finding (if applicable). Since we recognize that not all papers will be completed by February, work in progress will be accepted. Send the proposal/abstract via email to asteffanell@leeuniversity.edu by February 16, 2012. Include your name, institutional affiliation, and email address as well as a brief biography and any kind of technology needed. All presentations will have a 10-12 minute limit.
03/31/2012
All Day
Off Campus
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center at Stony Brook University is pleased to announce its eleventh annual graduate student conference to be held on April 20, 2012 at Stony Brook Manhattan. We are looking for a wide range of popular culture topics and panels that explore the theme: Trans-nationalizing Popular Culture. Popular culture often transcends national boundaries, and this conference seeks to engage in a discussion that will allow us to understand the actions, influences, and phenomena that have helped Popular Culture in Latin America cross those boundaries. Paper/panel proposals that do not explicitly address the conference theme will also be considered (if not necessarily prioritized).
To that end, we are interested in continuing to promote work in:
Film, Television & Mass Media Studies
Cultural History
Comic books
Musical practices
Race, Gender, Class & Ability Studies
Theatre
Sports, Toys, and Games
Communication Studies
Visual History
Queer Studies
04/02/2012
All Day
Off Campus
The UNC and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies announces its 2012 competition for Summer Research Fellowships. With funds from the US Department of Education, the Consortium will award at least three fellowships of up to $1,000 each to faculty from four-year colleges, community colleges, and HBCUs to use the Duke and UNC libraries and other campus resources.
04/10/2012
All Day
Off Campus
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center at Stony Brook University is pleased to announce its eleventh annual graduate student conference to be held on April 20, 2012 at Stony Brook Manhattan. We are looking for a wide range of popular culture topics and panels that explore the theme: Trans-nationalizing Popular Culture. Popular culture often transcends national boundaries, and this conference seeks to engage in a discussion that will allow us to understand the actions, influences, and phenomena that have helped Popular Culture in Latin America cross those boundaries. Paper/panel proposals that do not explicitly address the conference theme will also be considered (if not necessarily prioritized).
04/27/2012
All Day
Off Campus
The Johns Hopkins University Program in Latin American Studies announces a Call for Papers for its Spring Conference, Rethinking Law and Legality: Critical Approaches to Law and Lawlessness in Latin America, with Dr. Rachel Sider (CIESAS-Mexico City) as the Keynote Speaker.
The conference will be held on April 27, 2012 in Baltimore on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins.
Please e-mail a title, an abstract (about 200 words), academic affiliation, and contact information in a word document to jhuplas@gmail.com by February 6. Presentations must be in English.
06/01/2012
All Day
Off Campus
Imagine studying the workings of communities, the definition and transmission of traditional knowledge, or the culture and politics of indigenous peoples in the field in Belize. ISIS is offering field courses in these areas this summer. Join us for one or all of them:
v Sustaining Communities: Development for the future
v Traditional Knowledge: Approaches to Agriculture, Medicinal Plants & Cosmology
v Indigenous Peoples of Belize: Challenges and Issues
Our website has syllabi, other course offerings and forms for downloading: http://www.isisbelize.com/course-syllabi-summer-2012.html. For additional information contact our Program Manager, Cynthia Reece, at creece@isisbelize.com.
06/01/2012
All Day
TBA
Global Exploration for Educators Organization is a non-profit organization that runs summer professional development travel programs designed for teachers.
GEEO is offering 17 different travel programs for the summer of 2012: India/Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand/Laos/Cambodia, China, Russia/Mongolia/China, Egypt, Turkey 8 day, Turkey 15 day, South Africa/Mozambique/Zimbabwe/Botswana, Morocco, Cambodia/Vietnam, Argentina/Uruguay/Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, The Galapagos Islands and Costa Rica. Space is limited!
Educators have the option to earn graduate school credit (3 credits through Indiana University) and professional development credit while seeing the world.GEEO provides teachers educational materials and the structure to help them bring their experiences into the classroom.
Detailed information about each trip, including itineraries, costs, travel dates, and more can be found at www.geeo.org.
07/04/2012
All Day
Off Campus
This symposium will address a wide variety of topics related to the manner in which
ideological and epistemological changes of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries shaped the
Spanish language, literature and film in both Spain and Latin America.
http://www.csub.edu/MODLANG/SIMPOSIO2/
http://www.csub.edu/modlang/SIMPOSIO2/ENGLISH.pdf
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