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Each year, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) awards honors to those undergraduate students who demonstrate superlative scholarship on the region. In addition, CLACS also awards the William Gaston Premium Scholarship for excellence in Latin American Studies and the William Gaston Premium Scholarship for excellence in Latin American Studies in an honors thesis. This year’s honors and awards recipients are:

Aubrey Bracco, CLACS concentrator, received honors for his thesis, “A Sea Cow's Tale”;
Marco Martinez, CLACS concentrator, received honors for his thesis, “Trapped: The Socioeconomic and Cultural Confinement of the Rio Grande Valley”;
Ashley Morse, a double concentrator in CLACS and Portuguese and Brazilian studies, received the William Gaston Premium Scholarship for excellence in Latin American Studies and honors for her thesis, “Drugs and Democracy: The Continuity of State Violence against the Margins of Carioca Society”;
Samuel Novacich, CLACS concentrator, is the recipient of the William Gaston Premium Scholarship for excellence in Latin American Studies for his thesis, “Violence and Public Opinion in Rio de Janeiro.”

The Mesolore Project (TMP), a Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) project, under the directorship of Dr. Liza Bakewell, Research Associate with the CLACS, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant ($109,000) and a Davis Foundation Grant ($173,000). TMP is a research and teaching project on Mesoamerican manuscripts and is domiciled at CLACS. The grant money will provide funds for the expansion of the research and website materials, collaboration with faculty at Brown and other undergraduate institutions, professional evaluation of the material's classroom use, and a far reaching national (across the United States) and local (at Brown and throughout New England) dissemination effort. Beginning this fall, 2008, TMP will offer its materials on the Internet, www.mesolore.net, and for free. Read more.

Future Events, Fall 2008


Chile, 35 Years: The Pinochet Regime and its Aftermath- September 11-12, 2008

We will be organizing a concert of La Canción Nueva, the popular political and folkloric musical genre to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the military coup d’état in Chile on September 11th, 1973. The following day we will hold a conference on Chile with leading scholars and guest lecturers.

First Annual Sarmiento Lecture, September 18, 2008

Georgette Dorn of the Library of Congress will give the first annual Sarmiento lecture on educator and Argentine President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, who visited Brown in the nineteenth century.

The 35th/25th Anniversaries Celebration - October, 2008

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies will celebrate its 35th anniversary as an academic concentration and its 25th anniversary as an academic center with an afternoon panel discussion featuring Brown alumni/ae who utilize their Latin American Studies education to make significant impacts in the world today.
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From Open Source with Christopher Lydon (Podcast and Blog)

Brazil's Statesman At Large (Fernando Henrique Cardoso)
April 14, 2008

Cuba in Our Ears (Ned Sublette)
March 20, 2008

Cuba on Our Minds (David Kaiser)
March 17, 2008

Cuba for the Long Run (Adrian Lopez Denis)
March 13, 2008

What's Coming in Cuba (Patrick Symmes)
March 12, 2008

In the Neo-Liberal Ruins: Why Venezuela Matters (Julia Buxton)
February 14, 2008

El Cambio: Latin America's Change and Ours
(Sujatha Fernandes and Thomas Ponniah)
February 13, 2008


From News Headlines

Bolivian President Shares the Wealth
(Providence Journal, April 23, 2008)

Morales Tells of Bolivian Childhood
(Brown Daily Herald, April 23, 2008)

Cardoso and Colleagues Revisit 'Dependency and Development'
(Watson Institute News, April 21, 2008)

Brazil's Ambassador Reinterprets US Relationship
(Watson Institute News, March 14, 2008)

Pinheiro Urges Jamaica to Protect its Children
(Watson Institute News, March 11, 2008)

Festival Brings Brazil to Brown
(Brown Daily Herald, March 7, 2008)

Publicity from the "Changes in the Andes" Conference
(various sources, February 12-13, 2008)

Anniversary Edition of Skidmore Book Tracks Birth of Modern Brazil
(Watson Institute News, January 9, 2008)

Project Focuses on Slums in Brazil's Distant Suburbs
(Watson Institute News, December 13, 2007)

Andreas Analyzes Drug Enforcement in Rolling Stone Magazine's 'Anatomy of a Failure' (Watson Institute News, December 13, 2007)

Simmons Jets to Guadalajara for Thanksgiving Holiday
(Brown Daily Herald, November 19, 2007)

Report: Oaxacans Remain in a State of Fear
(Watson Institute News, November 15, 2007)

Tackling the Challenge of Doing Research in Cuba
(Watson Institute News, November 15, 2007)

Protestors Greet Colombian Ambassador Barco P'10
(Brown Daily Herald, October 30, 2007)

Close Ties between Cuba and Jamaica Analyzed, as CLACS Launches New Focus on Cuba (Watson Institute News, October 6, 2007)

Inequality Initiative Launched with Presidential Dialogue on Latin America
(Watson Institute News, October 4, 2007)

Two Former Presidents Discuss Globalization in Latin America
(Brown Daily Herald, October 4, 2007)

Anarchist Director Screens New Film
(Brown Daily Herald, September 28, 2007)

Former Presidents Cardoso and Lagos Headline 'Year of Focus on Latin America' (Brown University Press Release, September 28, 2007)

Latin American Film Festival Kicks Off Saturday
(Brown Daily Herald, September 21, 2007)

Internationalization Takes Shape In Report
(Brown Daily Herald, September 10, 2007)

Brown Professor Chairs Fact-Finding Delegation of the Latin American Studies Association to Investigate the 2006 Social Conflict in Oaxaca, Mexico
(Latin American Studies Association Report, August 1, 2007)