Events
Come join the Stone Center for Latin American Studies for a lively gathering involving music, food, and community! All are welcomed to attend.
Brazil has been widely lauded as the best place in the world for refugees. Yet its celebrated policies veil how racism shapes the everyday politics of asylum. The Color of Asylum follows asylum seekers as they navigate the refugee regime—from how…
Argentina’s 2023 executive and legislative elections took place in a context marked by years of weak economic performance and recent spikes in high inflation. In this context, the primaries leading to the elections exposed a three-way race that…
Join the Stone Center for this celebration in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month out in the city of New Orleans! This free event highlights a variety of musical artists and Latin food pop-ups. Be sure to reserve your ticket for this event!
Based on a forthcoming book by the author, the presentation first briefly describes the two diverse models and their key policies. The core of the presentation is a comparison of 20 key indicators (ten economic and ten social) of the three countries…
T.K. Coleman is Director of Entrepreneurial Education at the Foundation for Economic Education. T.K. creates workshops and curricula designed to teach the value of economic literacy and entrepreneurial thinking. He was recently featured in the…
Since 2020, the MARI-GISLAB team has been focusing on the so-called G-LiHT lidar dataset, published by NASA in 2013. Despite the caveat that these data had not been collected with archaeological research in mind, some studies based on them…
Our last Kaqchikel Language Table of the semester is next Wednesday, April 12 at 1:00 pm. Just hop on Zoom to hone your language skills with fellow students and Mtra. Magda Ixk’amey Sotz.
Register to join us on Zoom: https://…
Global Perspectives: Haitian Migration and the Thorny Politics of Language in the Dominican Republic
The island of Hispaniola, in the middle of the Caribbean basin, is one of only a handful of islands in the world that is shared by two independent nations with distinct official languages. Haiti, in the west, speaks Haitian Creole, and in the…
Matthew Rarey, Associate Professor of African and Black Atlantic Art History at Oberlin College, looks at a unique work of Black Atlantic visual culture: the map of Buraco do Tatú, a quilombo (primarily African-populated maroon polity) invaded…
