Events

Stone Center Events

Join the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Stone Center for Latin Ameircan Studies to a talk by writer, anthropologist, and editor Karina Pacheco, moderated by Fernando Rivera.  Karina Pacheco is one the most renowned Peruvian…
The Poverty Point site, located in northeast Louisiana, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in June 2014. For the uninitiated, Poverty Point is a monumental earthworks site built by hunter-fisher-gatherers some 3400 years ago. The…
Livio Sansone (Palermo, Italy, 1956) got his PhD from the University of Amsterdam and has been living in Brazil since 1992, where he is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Prof. Sansone is the…
Join the Spanish and Portuguese Department for a weekly Spanish language meet-up! Participants will have the opportunity to engage in Spanish conversation with other individuals. Cookies and coffee will also be provided for those who attend!  …
Join the Spanish and Portuguese Department for a weekly Spanish language meet-up! Participants will have the opportunity to engage in Spanish conversation with other individuals. Cookies and coffee will also be provided for those who attend!  …
Featuring Marco Alcocer, Harvard University  In 2006, Mexico’s government began a crackdown against drug cartels and adopted a strategy of leadership decapitation—removing cartel leaders. Soon after, large drug cartels began…
Learn how to apply for Stone Center funding to support your summer research, internship, or intensive language study.  Click here to join the Zoom meeting.
Join the Spanish and Portuguese Department for a weekly Spanish language meet-up! Participants will have the opportunity to engage in Spanish conversation with other individuals. Snacks and coffee will also be provided for those who attend! 
The 2023-24 Center for Inter-American Policy and Research Speaker Series: Violence, Inequality and Democracy in the Americas, explores challenges to democratic politics and effective governance in the region. Speakers will present cutting-edge…
Almost a century after the "golden age" of piracy ended, Jean Laffite and his brother Pierre, built a thriving business on the American Gulf Coast through the sale of maritime plunder. As war raged across the Atlantic World from 1789 to 1815,…