The Center for Latin American Studies at The Ohio State University

09/04/2026

Check out Herbert de Paz’s exhibit at Hagerty Hall!

09/04/2026

You can check out the exhibit now until November!

Join us for the opening with Herbert de Paz on September 30 and learn more about his other events at go.osu.edu/HerbertEvents

09/01/2026

Next Tuesday, September 8, join us for a screening of Argentine film "Chinese Take-Away." A Q&A will be led by Dr. Raquel Pina (Columbus State Community College) and Nik King (Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University) after the screening.

If you cannot attend the screening in person, you can register to receive access to a streaming link for the film.

NEW THIS YEAR: CLAS will offer $20 gift cards for the first three students who have a review of each of the films below published on Pragda Latin Cinema's Student Critic's Corner.

Learn more at go.osu.edu/CLASFilmFest

08/31/2026

Una madre no se cansa de esperar: memoria, narrativa y búsqueda

Join us on September 8th for a conversation with Luz Janeth Forero Martínez, Director of Colombia's Search Unit for Missing Persons (UBPD), and members of the UBPD delegation.

UBPD will focus on the connections between memory, narrative, and the search for the disappeared, including the role and importance of storytelling in the search process.

IN SPANISH. Light refreshments will be provided. Registration required.

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Join the Mershon Search Lab, CLAS and students in SPANISH 4556: Modern Spanish American Literatures for a conversation with Luz Janeth Forero Martínez, Director of Colombia's Search Unit for Missing Persons (UBPD), and members of the UBPD delegation.UBPD will focus on the connections between memory...

08/26/2026

Join us on Monday, August 31 at 12 p.m. for a presentation on Silvia Hector Webber and the Underground Railroad to Mexico by Dr. Maria Hammack.

Lunch will be provided. Registration required.

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Join CLAS for our Fall 2026 Lunch & Learn Series. Our first presenter this semester is Dr. Maria Hammack (Department of History).Free and open to all, registration required.

08/20/2026

CLAS is pleased to announce our Fall 2026 Lunch & Learn Series! All events are free and open to the public, registration is required. Lunch provided.

August 31, Maria Hammack (Department of History at Ohio State) ; Recentering the Story & Legacy of Silvia Hector Webber - The Harriet Tubman of Texas & the Underground Railroad to Mexico

October 8, Eugenia Costa-Giomi (School of Music at The Ohio State University); The development of music institutions in Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20th century - The first musician’s union

November 12, Katherine Borland (Department of Comparative Studies at OSU); Contact Improvisation in Latin America - Opportunities and Contradictions

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The Center for Latin American Studies is pleased to announce our Fall 2026 Lunch & Learn Series. All events are free and open to the public, registration is required. Lunch provided.Save the dates:

08/18/2026

CLAS is pleased to announce the 2026 Latin American Film Festival, thanks to Pragda Latin Cinema !

This year's schedule for screenings is:
September 8 - Chinese Take-Away
September 14 - Aztec Batman
September 22 - La Salsa Vive
September 28 - A Bruddah's Mind
October 6 - ASCO: Without Permission

As always, a streaming link will be available so that people can watch the films on their own devices for a week.

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CLAS is pleased to announce the 2026 Latin American Film Festival, in collaboration with Cuyahoga Community College and Columbus State Community College.New this year is that CLAS will offer $20 gift cards for the first three students who have a review of each of the films below published on Pragda'...

08/07/2026

Now showing at the Gateway: American Pachuco - The Legend of Luis Valdez

The film tells the story of Luis Valdez, the man who built El Teatro Campesino out of the fields of California and turned the figure of the pachuco and the history of the Zoot Suit Riots into influential American stage art. Narrated by Edward James Olmos in character as El Pachuco, featuring Dolores Huerta. It began on a flatbed truck at the Delano picket lines, with farmworkers performing their own strike, before it ever reached a stage. Now that story travels to Ohio as part of an Oscar-qualifying national run. A Mexican American story on the big screen, in the heart of the Midwest.

Showing from August 7-12, 2026. Get tickets at gatewayfilmcenter.org

07/30/2026

Ryan Joyce, an assistant professor of French and francophone studies in the Department of French and Italian, is using his expertise in creole studies to expand access to Haitian Creole language education.

07/29/2026

Earlier this summer CLAS partnered up with Capoeira Columbus to host Bora Vadiar Ohio, a capoeira workshop that brought together over 60 participants from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and had guest instructors from California. Throughout that weekend, campus became a space for folks wearing their abadás to sing, play Afro-Brazilian instruments, practice their capoeira skills and, most importantly, create community.

Read more about this event at go.osu.edu/BoraVadiarRecap