Latin American & Caribbean Studies at CofC

College of Charleston - Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Learn more about the great opportunities the Latin American & Caribbean Studies program at CofC offers.
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College of Charleston - Latin American and Caribbean Studies The Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at the College of Charleston offers a major and minor as a gateway to many great opportunities. Here is a ve...

Dr. Luci Moreira will present "Teaching Portuguese as a Foreign Language in the United States" on Wednesday, June 2, 8:00 PM Brazil time and 7:00 PM Eastern time.

🇧🇷 Vamos falar de PLE? Convidamos a Profa. Dra. Luci Moreira para um bate-papo sobre o ensino da língua portuguesa nos Estados Unidos.
📍Dia 02 de junho às 19h00 (Hora de La Paz)
✔Contaremos com a participação dos Centros Culturais Brasileiros na Nicarágua e na República Dominicana!
⚠️Transmissão pelo Facebook!
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La Casa Hispana - College of Charleston

Dear Spanish students,
We have two openings in the Casa Hispana residence house for the Fall, one for a man and one for a woman!

The Casa is at 8 Bull Street, and it is fabulous! There is a huge stocked kitchen with a washer and dryer, a living room with a brand new 75 inch TV, a library, a great porch, and best of all, the chance to be immersed in the language while still living on campus, and to be involved with the Department of Hispanic Studies!
https://casa.cofc.edu/

Please contact me right away if you are interested!
:-) Sra. Hanahan

Devon W. Hanahan, CofC '87
Faculty Marshal
Basic Spanish Language Program Coordinator
Department of Hispanic Studies
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC 29424
[email protected]
Office: JC Long 118
843-270-4543 (cell)

La Casa Hispana - College of Charleston A top 10 fastest-growing city for software and Internet technology, an emerging hub for aerospace, and a hotbed for healthcare and biosciences.

Graduating Senior Proves What's Possible With Hard Work, Determination

Congratulations to LACS graduate Leasette León!

Graduating Senior Proves What's Possible With Hard Work, Determination As the Class of 2021 prepares for Commencement, May 6–8, The College Today will highlight how some of our graduating seniors spent their time at CofC, and what the future holds. Leasette León wasn’t always the most outstanding student. In fact, when she graduated from high school, she didn’t ...

Please join us for this event on April 15!

Thursday, April 15 at 4:30 pm via Zoom
Dr. Monica Styles welcomes Dr. Bárbara I. Abadía-Rexach of San Francisco State University, a writer and expert on the topic of Afro-Latinxs, who will speak on “#LasVidasNegrasImportan: Colonization and Blackness in Puerto Rico.” Co-sponsored by HISP, LACS, AAST, and FYE.

#LasVidasNegrasImportan: Colonization and Blackness in Puerto Rico

The archipelago of Puerto Rico was a Spanish colony from 1493 to 1898; since then, it has been a colony of the United States. Anti-Black racism is a cruel reality that evidently Black Puerto Ricans suffer on a daily basis. Outside Puerto Rico, lighter skinned Puerto Ricans are interpellated and racialized as non-white citizens meaning they are not categorized as neither Americans. Bárbara Abadía-Rexach explores racialization in Puerto Rico through the #BLM movement and other antiracist, decolonial, and Afro-feminist initiatives.

Dr. Bárbara I. Abadía-Rexach is an Assistant Professor of AfroLatinidades in the Latina/ Latino Studies Department at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. from the Anthropology Department at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a native Black Puerto Rican writer and public intellectual. Her research focuses on Afro-Latinxs, Latinxs in the U.S., Latin American Studies, Racialization, Blackness, Identity Formation, Popular Culture, Music & Race in Puerto Rico, Media Studies, Black Hispanic Caribbean & African Diaspora. She is the author of Musicalizando la raza. La racialización en Puerto Rico a través de la música (Ediciones Puerto, 2012). She is currently working on a book manuscript, Saluting the Drum! The New Puerto Rican Bomba Movement, that examines discourses of blackness and its intersectionalities with national, cultural, racial, and gender identities in Puerto Rico through bomba music. Abadía-Rexach is a member of the Black Latinas Know Collective and Colectivo Ilé. She collaborates with Afroféminas (https://afrofeminas.com/), Todas (https://www.todaspr.com/), and produces the radio program NEGRAS (https://www.wrtu.pr/programas/negras/).

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://cofc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tcuurqzwvH9VuyPaIW5XfAjt-yLZL7J7G
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Interested in studying abroad in Cuba? We will host a info session on the CofC Cuba Spring 2022 Semester Program next week: Monday March 22, at 4:30 p.m. on Zoom (https://cofc.zoom.us/j/89574671292 Meeting ID: 895 7467 1292). A representative from CIE will be there as well as the Program Director, Ashley Wendt who will accompany the group of students.

The Doctors Without Borders CofC Student Chapter is hosting a lecture with Dr. Will McCorkle called Understanding the Refugee Crisis: A Case Study from the Southern Border. For this meeting, they will discuss the migration issues and policies that have changed at the Mexican border between the Trump and Biden Administrations. Dr. McCorkle will be giving a lecture and will have a Q&A portion at the end.
The meeting will be held on March 17 at 5PM via Zoom
Christina Ferrell is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Doctors Without Borders Club Meeting
Time: Mar 17, 2021 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://cofc.zoom.us/j/93433530844
Christina Ferrell
College of Charleston Honors '22
International Studies and French Major
Russian Studies Minor
CofC Career Center Peer Career Advisor
Treasurer of Doctors Without Borders Student Chapter

The Doctors Without Borders CofC Student Chapter is hosting a lecture with Dr. Will McCorkle called Understanding the Refugee Crisis: A Case Study from the Southern Border. For this meeting, they will discuss the migration issues and policies that have changed at the Mexican border between the Trump and Biden Administrations. Dr. McCorkle will be giving a lecture and will have a Q&A portion at the end.
The meeting will be held on March 17 at 5PM via Zoom
Christina Ferrell is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Doctors Without Borders Club Meeting
Time: Mar 17, 2021 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://cofc.zoom.us/j/93433530844
Christina Ferrell
College of Charleston Honors '22
International Studies and French Major
Russian Studies Minor
CofC Career Center Peer Career Advisor
Treasurer of Doctors Without Borders Student Chapter

Hispanic Studies will be hosting a live, virtual conference in conjunction with its study abroad partners at the Universidad de La Matanza, Buenos Aires (UNLaM) and the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) on three consecutive days during April (6th – 8th), from 4-6 p.m. (ET).
The newly minted website for this multinational, bi-continental conference—via which you can register for the event, see the presentation line-up and read talk summaries and presenter bios—can be found here:
http://blogs.cofc.edu/unlam-usach-conference/
As you will note, CofC is poised to make an impressive showing, with presentations being made by two faculty members-- Drs. Nadia Avendaño and Falcon Restrepo-Ramos--and two students-- Ms. Sarah Rosso and Mr. Creighton Shelby.

Specifically, the above will be presenting on the following topics:
“El lenguaje inclusive: buscando algo más del binario” (Mr. Creighton Shelby)
“Chicano/a Viet Nam War Narratives: Articulating the Chicano/a Community’s Collective Experiences of the War” (Dr. Nadia Avendaño)
"Food and Dictatorship under Francisco Franco" (Ms. Sarah Rosso)
“Introducing SEÑAL, a computational tool for the linguistic analysis of Spanish L2 compositions”(Dr. Falcon Restrepo-Ramos)
Drop by for these engaging charlas and stay for the rest. You won’t be disappointed.

Hispanic Studies will be hosting a live, virtual conference in conjunction with its study abroad partners at the Universidad de La Matanza, Buenos Aires (UNLaM) and the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) on three consecutive days during April (6th – 8th), from 4-6 p.m. (ET).
The newly minted website for this multinational, bi-continental conference—via which you can register for the event, see the presentation line-up and read talk summaries and presenter bios—can be found here:
http://blogs.cofc.edu/unlam-usach-conference/
As you will note, CofC is poised to make an impressive showing, with presentations being made by two faculty members-- Drs. Nadia Avendaño and Falcon Restrepo-Ramos--and two students-- Ms. Sarah Rosso and Mr. Creighton Shelby.

Specifically, the above will be presenting on the following topics:
“El lenguaje inclusive: buscando algo más del binario” (Mr. Creighton Shelby)
“Chicano/a Viet Nam War Narratives: Articulating the Chicano/a Community’s Collective Experiences of the War” (Dr. Nadia Avendaño)
"Food and Dictatorship under Francisco Franco" (Ms. Sarah Rosso)
“Introducing SEÑAL, a computational tool for the linguistic analysis of Spanish L2 compositions”(Dr. Falcon Restrepo-Ramos)
Drop by for these engaging charlas and stay for the rest. You won’t be disappointed.

Preregister to receive the links to the documentary and the panel discussion using this form: https://forms.gle/5Dwfm14dxrYb4DzL8

Preregister to receive the links to the documentary and the panel discussion using this form: https://forms.gle/5Dwfm14dxrYb4DzL8

Informational meetings for CofC’s Fall 2021 study abroad program in Santiago, Chile! Tuesday, Feb 23 at 4:30 pm and Wednesday, March 24 at 4:30 pm

We will cover topics including the application process, scholarships, program and travel details, and academic credits.
Dr. Carl Wise
Assistant Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies
College of Charleston

Topic: CofC Chile Program Fall 2021 Information Session
Time: Feb 23, 2021 04:30 PM Eastern
Join Zoom Meeting
https://cofc.zoom.us/j/96054651722?pwd=RTMzY0JtbEt0emtpcmUza2w1VmJzQT09
Meeting ID: 960 5465 1722
Passcode: 433208

Dear LACS Faculty, Students & Friends,

I am very pleased to announce and to invite all of you to Hispanic Studies’ next Career Seminar, which will feature Ms. Hallie Ritzu (’08), who will give a talk titled “Language and the Law: How Cultural Fluency and Spanish Proficiency Have Guided My Career Choices.”

The seminar will be presented live, via Zoom, on 11 March, from 4-5 p.m. Be sure to register in advance for this engaging discussion. Look forward to seeing all of you there.

Saludos,
Mg
Dr. Michael A. Gómez
Professor of Spanish
Affiliated Faculty in Philosophy
Chair of Hispanic Studies

Join Zoom Meeting
https://cofc.zoom.us/j/97130938829?pwd=US9tQng0czNRS2NEZmloMGJQdlJJQT09

Dear LACS Faculty, Students & Friends,

I am very pleased to announce and to invite all of you to Hispanic Studies’ next Career Seminar, which will feature Ms. Hallie Ritzu (’08), who will give a talk titled “Language and the Law: How Cultural Fluency and Spanish Proficiency Have Guided My Career Choices.”

The seminar will be presented live, via Zoom, on 11 March, from 4-5 p.m. Be sure to register in advance for this engaging discussion. Look forward to seeing all of you there.

Saludos,
Mg
Dr. Michael A. Gómez
Professor of Spanish
Affiliated Faculty in Philosophy
Chair of Hispanic Studies

Join Zoom Meeting
https://cofc.zoom.us/j/97130938829?pwd=US9tQng0czNRS2NEZmloMGJQdlJJQT09

BOOK TALK WITH
JOHN GARRISON MARKS
Author of Black Freedom In The Age of Slavery

Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. In Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery Marks examines how these individuals built lives in freedom for themselves and their families in two of the Atlantic World's most important urban centers: Cartagena, along the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, and Charleston, in the lowcountry of North America's Atlantic coast.

John Garrison Marks works for the American Association for State and Local History and holds a Ph.D. in history from Rice University.

Hosted by The CLAW Program at CofC & USC Press
February 18th at 3pm on Zoom
Zoom link: https://cofc.zoom.us/j/98462074397?pwd=MFhrYkM3YzVxYWZaVElBQ1FweHNqQT09#success

BOOK TALK WITH
JOHN GARRISON MARKS
Author of Black Freedom In The Age of Slavery

Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. In Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery Marks examines how these individuals built lives in freedom for themselves and their families in two of the Atlantic World's most important urban centers: Cartagena, along the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, and Charleston, in the lowcountry of North America's Atlantic coast.

John Garrison Marks works for the American Association for State and Local History and holds a Ph.D. in history from Rice University.

Hosted by The CLAW Program at CofC & USC Press
February 18th at 3pm on Zoom
Zoom link: https://cofc.zoom.us/j/98462074397?pwd=MFhrYkM3YzVxYWZaVElBQ1FweHNqQT09#success

Photos from College of Charleston Center for International Education's post

Charla hoy a las 4:30!
https://cofc.zoom.us/j/8035232097

Charla hoy a las 4:30!
https://cofc.zoom.us/j/8035232097

Sigma Delta Pi, National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society - College of Charleston

Sigma Delta Pi, National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society - College of Charleston A top 10 fastest-growing city for software and Internet technology, an emerging hub for aerospace, and a hotbed for healthcare and biosciences.

Join us on Thursday, Oct. 8th at 6 pm for a film screening of 'Invisible Hands' and a panel discussion about migrant farmworkers in South Carolina.

This will be Facebook live event, streaming from this page.

Join us on Thursday, Oct. 8th at 6 pm for a film screening of 'Invisible Hands' and a panel discussion about migrant farmworkers in South Carolina.

This will be Facebook live event, streaming from this page.

Join the Latin American & Caribbean Studies program for a forum discussing the border featuring Dr. Will McCorkle.

Date & Time: Monday, Oct. 12 at 7pm
Location: https://cofc.zoom.us/j/94534843804?pwd=S2MwV2VvUm1LbUYrdEZkY0lLYUl1QT09

Meeting ID: 945 3484 3804
Passcode: 173616

Join the Latin American & Caribbean Studies program for a forum discussing the border featuring Dr. Will McCorkle.

Date & Time: Monday, Oct. 12 at 7pm
Location: https://cofc.zoom.us/j/94534843804?pwd=S2MwV2VvUm1LbUYrdEZkY0lLYUl1QT09

Meeting ID: 945 3484 3804
Passcode: 173616

Want to learn more about the CofC Argentina Program? Read Mallory's story about her wonderful stay in Buenos Aires.

https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cofc.edu/dist/0/349/files/2020/09/HispAbroad_Argentina-Mallory-Watford-Spring-2020.pdf

Timeline Photos

Please join the Argentina Spring 2021 Session at the Zoom Study Abroad Fair this Friday, September 4th at 12:30pm!
Information Session Signup Sheet: https://cofcstudyabroadfair.wordpress.com/calendar-of-study-abroad-week/

College of Charleston - Hispanic Studies

Join us for a Trujillo, Spain Spring 2021 Study Abroad info session on Wed, Sept 2 at 2:30 pm with program director Dr. Antonio Pérez-Núñez! Check your CofC email for the zoom link.