LACS: Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program at Northwestern

02/17/2025

Join LACS this week!

Valeria Coronel Valencia (Professor of Sociology at FLACSO-Ecuador and former Secretary of Culture of the Municipality of Quito) will share how her academic work on Latin American modern history, and on indigenous political engagement with contentious politics and the dispute for cultural hegemony, has informed her work for a postcolonial government in the cultural sector.

Dr. Coronel will offer a short presentation, followed by a conversation with Jorge Coronado (Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese).

This talk is co-hosted by the Kaplan Humanities Institute as part of its Public Humanities Initiative.

Lunch will be served!

02/13/2025

We invite you to join us to celebrate the launch of Histories of Solitude and Perplexity: Colombia Revisited, a two-volume series edited by our very own Lina Britto, Associate Professor, Department of History. Lina will be joined by co-editor Ricardo López-Pedreros and author María del Rosario Acosta.

More information here: https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/624911

05/14/2024

Join Chike Pilgrim on May 17th for a discussion of the Holocene epoch's ecological networks in Trinidad. Register for the Zoom at https://bit.ly/LACS_May_17 .

05/10/2024

Join LACS on Tuesday May 14 for a presentation by photographer Alexandra McNichols Torroledo, on traditional uses of coca by the Nasa indigenous people in Colombia. 12:30 pm in Crowe 1-132, lunch will be served at the event.

05/01/2024

Join our Zoom on Friday May 3 to learn what marine archaeology reveals about ancient indigenous populations in the Caribbean, and their travels. Register at https://bit.ly/LACS_May_3 .

04/25/2024

Join LACS tomorrow for a Zoom about Afro-Dominican archaeology! 12:30 Central. Sign up at https://bit.ly/LACS_April_26 .

04/17/2024

If you are interested in Black communities in the Amazon, this is the Zoom for you! 12:30 pm on Friday April 19th. Register at bit.ly/LACS_April_19 .

09/21/2023

Dear friends,

The Department of History and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program, LACS, are pleased to invite you to the Frank Safford Symposium.

Author of some of the most influential scholarship on nineteenth-century Colombia and Latin America, Professor Frank Safford passed on June 16, 2022, leaving behind an enduring legacy. This symposium celebrates his scholarly contributions, pays homage to his important pedagogical work, and discusses the innovative methodologies he used to connect scholars in North and South America in networks of collegiality.

The one-day event is structured around the main historical questions and themes that Safford explored during his long career, and brings together some of his closest colleagues, as well as younger scholars whose works build upon his legacy.

It will take place on Friday, October 6th, 2023, at Harris Hall 108, Evanston campus, and via Zoom, in English and Spanish (simultaneous translation will be available in person and online).

10:15 am, Roundtable The Question of Development: Geography, Markets, and Business History: with Andrés Guhl (Universidad de los Andes); Ana María Otero (University of York); and Marcelo Bucheli (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).
2:00 pm, Roundtable The Question of Class Formation: Politics, Elites, and the History of Education: with Víctor Uribe (Florida International University); Rafael Acevedo, (Universidad de Cartagena); and Ricardo Rivadeneira (Universidad Nacional de Colombia).
4:00 pm, Roundtable The Question of Legacy: Collegiality, Friendship, and Scholarship: with Brodwyn Fischer (University of Chicago); Ann Twinam (University of Texas); and Carlos Dávila (Universidad de los Andes).
6:00 pm, Keynote, Jackson Lecture: with Marco Palacios (Colegio de México).

More information and RSVP at https://sites.northwestern.edu/franksaffordsymposium/

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05/23/2023

At 12:30 pm Central, join NU LACS for a presentation by Odlanyer Hernandez de Lara, on the archaeology of Cold War-era Soviet military installations off the coast of Cuba. Register at bit.ly/LACS_5_23 .

05/22/2023

If you are interested in the Cuban Missile Crisis and its impact on contemporary Cuba, you won't want to miss tomorrow's Zoom with Odlanyer Hernandez de Lara! 12:30 pm Central, register at bit.ly/LACS_5_23 .

05/16/2023

Have some time over lunch? At 12:30 pm Central learn about Afro-Ecuadorian community archaeology projects at today's LACS Zoom with Daniela Balanzategui. Register at bit.ly/LACS_5_16 .

05/09/2023

Join us today for a Zoom presentation by Dr. Joseph Sony Jean on Haitian archaeology. 1:30 pm Central, register at bit.ly/LACS_5_9 .