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The Merle Collins and Caribbean Studies Scholarship 2023

March 15, 2023 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

The awarded students will be announced at the end of LACS Caribbean Week

15th Annual LACS Student Conference - Oye Como Va: Sound, Voice, and Movement in the Americas

February 20, 2023 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

The University of Maryland, College Park’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center (LACS) and the LACS Graduate Collective call for proposals to participate in the conference Oye Como Va: Sound, Voice, and Movement in the Americas.

LACS-UMD Call for a 2023-2024 Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American and/or Caribbean Studies

February 01, 2023 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center (LACS) at the University of Maryland seeks a scholar of Latin America and the Caribbean for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship.

Talk by prominent Mapuche leader and constitutional representative of Chile

November 16, 2022 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

LACS hosts Mapuche leader and Chilean Constitutional Representative Adolfo Millabur Ñancuil

NPR Marketplace Morning Report

Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center Isabella Alcañiz Featured on NPR

October 31, 2022 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

Russia sparks a rise in grain prices.

LACS Yearly Newsletter

October 26, 2022 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

LACS El Terrapino 2021-2022

LACS Director presents new book on Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean

September 22, 2022 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

Professor Alcañiz’s timely book, The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean, co-authored with Ricardo Gutierrez, was featured in the Sadat Chair Program.

WMAR

What is Hispanic Heritage Month?

September 15, 2022 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

Isabella Alcañiz, associate professor and director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, speaks to WMAR. 

LACS Director discusses President Biden's Heat.gov launch

August 01, 2022 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center

LACS Director interviewed on NPR Marketplace Morning Report.

Caribbean Week: Dr. Keisha Allan, 2021-2022 LACS Postdoctoral Fellow, discusses Professor Nick Nesbitt's new book together with Dr. John Drabinski

April 20, 2022 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, English

Dr. Keisha Allan, 2021-2022 LACS Postdoctoral Fellow, discusses Professor Nick Nesbitt's new book The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean