rebuilding chile

The Providence community is coming together to support relief and rebuilding efforts for earthquake and tsunami victims in Chile.

  • Join members of the Providence art community downtown from 3/18-3/21 at Art for Chile, an exhibition and silent auction featuring 45 artists who have donated their work to benefit relief efforts in Chile. Please see the full schedule of events and a gallery with images of the pieces to be auctioned here.
  • Visit the Harvard-MIT Students' Relief Effort website, where Chilean students are also accepting donations to help construct 30,000 basic homes in Chile.
  • Learn about Amnesty International's response to the humanitarian crisis in Chile.
  • Visit the website of Fundación Teleton to donate to the initative "Chile ayuda a Chile."

             

Haiti @ Brown, Brown in Haiti

Haiti and Haitian language studies have an important place at Brown. We are one of the few universities outside Haiti to offer two full years of Haitian language (Creole) through Prof. Patrick Sylvain and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Prof. Sylvain has organized a mentoring program between Brown students and Haitian students at Hope High School. Brown will host the Haitian Studies Association annual meetings at Brown in November 2010. The John Carter Brown Library houses the second best collection in the world of materials on colonial Haiti and is digitizing its Haitian materials in partnership with Yelé Haiti. Brown’s Alpert Medical School has exchange programs with three medical schools in Haiti.

These collaborations and partnerships make it all the more important for the Brown community to step forward at this time and help Haiti in the short and long term.

Please check this website regularly for updates and information about Haiti Earthquake Response Efforts @ Brown!

Thanks to all for your commitment in responding to Haiti’s crisis,

Matthew Gutmann
Vice President for International Affairs
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor of Anthropology

Barrymore Bogues
Harmon Family Professor
Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science

ALUM SPOTLIGHT: TAYLOR BARNES '09

Since graduating from Brown, CLACS concentrator and former DUG leader Taylor Barnes '09 has worked as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. Taylor recently published pieces exploring the fluid border between Mexico and Texas ("Mexico: All Aboard the 'School-Bus' Plane to Texas") and the success of Mexican immigrant investors in San Antoni0 ("Who's Creating US Jobs? Mexicans"). Her future plans include freelancing for the Monitor in Mumbai and eventually returning to Latin America or Mozambique to continue working on her Spanish and Portuguese. CLACS congratulates Taylor and wishes her continued success in these endeavors!

2010-2011 Cogut and Sarmiento Fellowship Applications Now Available

The Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professorship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies brings leading scholars from Latin America and the Caribbean to teach and conduct research at Brown University. Visiting Professors are based at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and teach one undergraduate course on Latin America per semester, advise undergraduate and graduate student theses, and give presentations in Center or affiliated departmental colloquia. Brown faculty members are invited to encourage applications and submit names of potential candidates to the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. A committee will start to review applications after December 30, 2009. More information is available here.

The Craig M. Cogut Dissertation Fellowship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies is a twelve-month dissertation fellowship for graduate students at Brown University who are in the writing stage of their dissertation. The fellowships are open to students in any department whose dissertation is directly relevant to Latin America and/or the Carribean. Applications for the 2o10-2011 academic year are due at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies no later than March 1, 2010. More information is available here, or by calling 401-863-2106.

The Honorable Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Fund for Latin American Studies annually awards a short-term $5,000 fellowship for a resident from a Spanish-speaking South American country to pursue pre-doctoral dissertation, post-doctoral or independent research at Brown University. The fellowship enables close collaboration with Brown scholars from a wide array of disciplines. The application materials may be submitted in Spanish. The application deadline for the 2010 Sarmiento Fellowship is February 1, 2010. More information is available here.

Choices on Haiti!

Brown’s Choices Program has developed a lesson for high school students, drawing on interviews with two Brown faculty members Professors Tony Bogues (Africana Studies) and Patrick Sylvain (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies). The Haitian Crisis: Thinking Historically challenges students to think beyond the earthquake, consider the role of Haiti’s rich history in the current crisis, and think about the global role in long term reconstruction.

"Ports of Sorrow," poem by Professor Patrick Sylvain

Brown University Haitian Creole language and culture Professor Patrick Sylvain is also a writer, essayist and poet. Professor Sylvain has been published in several anthologies, magazines and reviews including African American Review, Agni, and American Poetry Anthology, among several others. His latest book, Love, Lust & Loss / Lanmou, anvi ak pèdans, was published by Mémoire d'Encrier in October 2005. To listen to Professor Sylvain's interview on PBS' Art Beat Weekly Poem, please visit PBSNEWSHOUR. If you want to read more of his poetry, please go to the Brockton Public Library Poetry Series.