The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies is a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center sponsoring interdisciplinary research and teaching on Latin America and the Caribbean. It is celebrating its 35th year as an academic concentration and its 25th year as a formal academic program at Brown.

Brown University President Ruth Simmons has proclaimed 2007-2008 as Brown’s “Year of Focus on Latin America.”

NEWS:

Fall 2008 Courses by Visiting and Affiliated Professors:

Contemporary Cuban Literature and Visual Culture (HISP 1370P) by Rachel Price, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Transnational Lives: Anthropology of Migration and Mobilities (ANTH 15875) by Jessaca Leinaweaver, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Andean Anthropology (ANTH 1119) by Jessaca Leinaweaver, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Race, Music and Literature in the Spanish Caribbean by Juan Garabís, Cogut Visiting Professor

Popular Music and Social Change in Latin America by Joshua Tucker, Postdoctoral Fellow

Upcoming events:

La Nueva Canción chilena
On September 11, 2008 the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in conjunction with the Department of Music and the Creative Arts Council, presents "La Nueva Canción chilena," a musical performance that seeks to reproduce a protest song movement that arose in the 1960s in Chile. Drawing on representations of protest worldwide and offering a uniquely Chilean flair, celebrated singers such as Violeta Parra sought to lament and fight against the status quo of misery and poverty through the medium of folk music. The "La Nueva Canción chilena" concert will feature Lucia Diaz-Starr, world-renowned professor of opera; the Alturas Duo; and arrangements by Benjamin Starr.

Chile, 35 Years: The Pinochet Regime and Human Rights
"La Nueva Canción chilena" will be followed and complemented by a lectureship entitled, “Chile, 35 Years: The Pinochet Regime and Human Rights," to take place on September 12, 2008, commemorating the approach of the sixtieth anniversary of the Untied Nations’ “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” This series will bring together leading scholars of Chilean history, politics, and economy to Brown University for a sequence of lectures that enhances CLAS’ Southern Cone Project, which focuses on advancing study on Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.

Stay tuned for more information.

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The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies would like to extend its condolences on the passing of Ruth Cardoso, remarkable ex-First Lady of Brazil who left a tremendous imprint on social policy and the betterment of humanity. Read more.

Congratulations to Aubrey Bracco, Marco Martinez, Ashley Morse, and Samuel Novacich for their honors and awards.

Best wishes to Brown students and faculty for safe and productive summer breaks! We look forward to seeing you back on campus next fall for another semester filled with lectures, films, and other events.