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By drawing parallels between jazz and Brazilian musical traditions, Master of Music student Sarah Whitaker presents her research and a musical performance about collective power and the shared struggles of the African Diaspora in the U.S. and Brazil. https://youtu.be/KWFpB0NZa9Y?si=X8ZUjoOnWbe1Mtat Michigan State University College of Music MSU Jazz Studies MSU Department of Romance and Classical Studies

Connecting Jazz Studies and the Black Experience in the Americas via Portuguese Immersion in Brazil By drawing parallels between jazz and Brazilian musical traditions, Master of Fine Arts student Sarah Whitaker presents her research and a musical performanc...

Public policy undergraduate student Adilene Martínez discusses how engaging directly with local communities provides a deeper understanding of regional needs than theory alone.
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Exploring Human Forest Codependence and Community Traditions in Yucatán, Mexico Public policy undergraduate student Adilene Martínez discusses how engaging directly with local communities provides a deeper understanding of regional needs...

Assistant Professor Rafael Villares Orellana talks about his work of confronting ways of seeing migration through artwork on the commercialization of nature. MSU College of Arts & Letters MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - Art | Art History | Design

Confronting Ways of Seeing Migration Through Artwork on the Commercialization of Nature Professor Rafael Villegas presents his "The Nature of Hunting Nature" series examining how the USDA’s history of importing "naturalized immigrant plants" ser...

Read about the graduate student projects CLACS is supporting in departments and colleges across campus Michigan State University College of Communication Arts & Sciences School of Journalism at Michigan State University History Department, Michigan State University Michigan State University College of Social Science MSU Department of Anthropology Michigan State University College of Education Michigan State University College of Music MSU Jazz Studies MSU College of Arts & Letters MSU Department of Romance and Classical Studies

CLACS Awards 2026 Field Research Funding to 9 Graduate Students 9 Graduate Students who received funding from the CLACS Awards 2026 for Field Research

CLACS Featured Story on FLAS Recipients https://clacs.isp.msu.edu/news_article/24274 MSU College of Arts & Letters Michigan State University College of Music MSU Jazz Studies Michigan State University College of Communication Arts & Sciences School of Journalism at Michigan State University James Madison College at Michigan State University MSU Department of Romance and Classical Studies

CLACS awards FLAS fellowships to 8 students for spring and summer 2026 CLACS’ Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Grant from the US Department of Education funds these fellowships. The 2025-26 academic year was the final year of the center’s 4-year grant, which sought to encourage US students to develop deep knowledge about peoples, languages, and cul...

12 Mayo 2026
10 a 12 pm
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Consideractiones éticas, conceptuales y práticas para la psicología comunitaria desde o com comunidades originarias
Pontentes:
-Phd. Ignacio D. Acevedo Polakovich
Profesor en el Doctorado en Psicología Comunitaria
Universidad Estatal de Michigan
-Mtra. María Guadalupe Tepetate
Directora del Centro de Formación y Asesoria Mfáte AC

Moderadora: Dra. Katerine I. Herazo González
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Check out this podcast with Dr. Lucía Cárdenas Curiel and colleagues.

Writing and Literacies SIG 1 like. "Solidarity Through Immigrant Literacies"

Fulbright US Student Program: Teach, Study or Research Abroad!
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Friday, May 8th, 2026
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Congratulations to Dr. Lucía Cárdenas Curiel and the other faculty on their contributions to this book

MSU book explores (game)play as literacy practice A new book co-edited by MSU College of Education scholars explores how joy, play and gameplay can be powerful tools for literacy learning. The book invites readers to rethink play as a critical teaching practice rather than a break from learning. Drawing from lived classroom experience and collabora...