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.

See our Fall 2008 calendar for a complete list of upcoming events at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

CLACS is pleased to announce the publication of a policy brief on "New Realities, Challenges, and Opportunities in the Andean Region of Latin America." Please see the full report here.

Upcoming events:

Announcing two new Spring 2009 courses in the Theatre, Speech, and Dance Department with Meida McNeal: TSDA 1281L Critical Performance Ethnography and TSDA 1281G Caribbean Culture and Performance. Please click on the course names above for more information.

Announcing the Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professorship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University

Announcing the Honorable Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Fellowship
for Visiting Scholars to Brown University, awarded at the First Annual Sarmiento Lecture Series