Professor Esberg (University of Pennsylvania. Political Science.) explores the challenge cultural elites pose to dictators, as they can use their platforms to criticize the government. She investigates the logic of employment bans as a means of silencing cultural elites. Esberg argues that such bans reduce the visibility of prominent critics, limiting their reach even when they dissent. She supports this theory by matching data on film productions with lists of artists barred from working during Argentina’s military dictatorship (1976-1983).

Join us for a conversation on Haitian literature and history with author Evelyne Trouillot and translator Marjorie Salvodan (via Zoom), moderated by Nadève Ménard.

This conversation will be held in French.

Please join us October 25th at noon central (11am in Central America) for a CAPC panel discussion on the 2024 US Elections and Central America: Perspectives and Implications with:  

- Roman Gressier, Editor, El Faro English

- Manuel Orozco, Director of the Migration, Remittances, and Development Program, Inter-American Dialogue

- Elayne White, Professor of Practice, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University

Archivo Cuir Honduras is a queer Honduran archive spanning from the 50s that gathers, preserves, and celebrates the queer community in Honduras with private photo collections, diaries, newspaper clippings, letters, and more. The exhibition’s opening will also have a panel session with Dany Barrientos, one of the archive’s founders, Arely Westley, a local Honduran trans woman activist, Gabriela Abigail Redondo, a trans woman activist from Colectivo Unidad Color Rosa in Honduras, and alumna Edith Romero from Union Migrante.

Ch'ul be delves into the Tsotsil sacred path, exploring ancient collective commitments that sustain the cycle of life in community. In San Andres Larrainzar, everyone is responsible for the collective well-being, but few are chosen to follow the path of serving the gods. Ch'ul be is the path of Martha and Diego, and of Román and his son Tino. It is a journey from the everyday to the divine, from the individual to the collective, to ensure that knowledge is not lost and the cycle is not broken.

What are the stories we choose to tell about the places we belong to and the families we came from? What will we remember, and what will be forgotten? This collection of documentary shorts explores permanence, and the importance of finding contentment wherever we are.

Summon. A dancer living in Miami embarks on a spiritual journey to his homeland of Jamaica to reconnect with his Maroon ancestry.

What are the stories we choose to tell about the places we belong to and the families we came from? What will we remember, and what will be forgotten? This collection of documentary shorts explores permanence, and the importance of finding contentment wherever we are.

Summon. A dancer living in Miami embarks on a spiritual journey to his homeland of Jamaica to reconnect with his Maroon ancestry.

Please join us for the final installment of "Horror & Enchantment," an ongoing interdisciplinary conversation among scholars centered on these complementary (and Halloween-ready!) concepts. What horrifies may also enchant, and what enchants may also horrify - so get ready. The two-day symposium will involve discussion of short, creative works drawn from the outer limits of scholarly inquiry.

Program coming soon.

Please join us for the final installment of "Horror & Enchantment," an ongoing interdisciplinary conversation among scholars centered on these complementary (and Halloween-ready!) concepts. What horrifies may also enchant, and what enchants may also horrify - so get ready. The two-day symposium will involve discussion of short, creative works drawn from the outer limits of scholarly inquiry.

This event is organized by Kris Lane and Kenneth Mills (University of Michigan), and sponsored by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies with an assist from the Department of History.