As part of the NYU community’s outreach to New York residents affected by Hurricane Sandy, the Avery Fisher Center & Cantor Film Center present a free screening of El Regalo de la Pachamama, directed by Toshifumi Matsushita. Audience members will be asked to make a donation to the charity of your choice to assist those who were severely affected by Hurricane Sandy. Informational handouts will be provided at the screening.
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Ernesto Pimentel is currently associate professor in the History Department at the Federal University of Paraíba with a research interest in the effects of western criminal policy in Brazil.
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Since 1989, Tomás Fernández Robaina has held the position of Researcher and Professor at the Department of Cultural & Historical Research and Library Sciences at the National Library of Cuba. In the first presentation for the "What's Left of Cuba?" Colloquium series, Robaina will present an overview of trends in the fight against racial discrimination in Cuba. Robaina highlights the most relevant thinkers of the past to the present, and focuses on the characteristics of this current struggle.
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Through the CLACS Teacher Residency Program, select K-12 teachers have worked closely with NYU faculty members, NYU Bobst Library resources, Facing History and Ourselves, and CLACS K-12 outreach staff to research topics relevant to Latin America. During this two-Saturday event on February 2 & 9 culminating the Program, participants will present materials to an audience of their peers and the public. Each day will consist of workshops and screenings of films that the teachers have used in their lessons plans. A certificate of completion noting 5.5 hours of PD credit will be provided to all attendees.
Registration is free and required: mcb519@nyu.edu
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The "What's Left of Cuba?" Colloquium series continues with New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer, Coco Fusco. She is Director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons The New School for Design, and has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. Fusco will present her video La Plaza Vacia and discuss the symbolic use of the Plaza of the Revolution by Cuban artists and activists.
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CLACS-NYU welcomes the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) to New York University, and NACLA will present the Report on the Americas Winter 2012 issue on elections in the Americas. Join us as we celebrate a new partnership!
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The "What's Left of Cuba?" Colloquium series continues with a panel discussion with Jafari Allen, José Muñoz, & José Quiroga on LGTB issues in Cuba, which is also part of the second event in the Globally Queer? series.
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Please join us in Queens for this special collaboration between the Quechua Program of CLACS at NYU and Pachamama Peruvian Arts. This popular event only happens a few times a year, and brings together students, faculty, and members of the community who share a passion for Quechua.
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Nancy Raquel Mirabal is a Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (2012-2013). She has published widely on the early history of Afro-diasporic communities.
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Luis Herran Avila is currently a Phd Candidate in Political Science at New School University.
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The Perspectives from the Field speaker series is a CLACS Initiative that invites professionals to speak about their experiences and the ways that training in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at CLACS prepared them for their careers. Join us as we sit down with CLACS Alumn Zamaly Diaz Lebron, Program Officer at the Institute of International Education (IIE) University Placement Services. This series is open to graduate students at CLACS, graduate and undergraduate students at NYU and other NYC universities, and members of the general public.
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Graduate Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (GALAS) Cultural Nights feature events that allows attendees to explore specific regions of Latin America and the Caribbean in depth. These include discussions, regional food, guest speakers, and films.
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The "What's Left of Cuba?" Colloquium series continues with Cuban-American playwright and director, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas. His highest profile play to date is Blind Mouth Singing, which was translated and produced in Havana, Cuba in 2010. Cortiñas will make a presentation about the hard work for Cubans to get off the island, and the hard work to get back to the island.
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Haitian academic and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot, who died this past year, left a major body of work that has shaped the study of the Caribbean and the Atlantic World. CLACS hosts a day-long symposium celebrating the memory of Trouillot and his major body of work that continues to influence scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
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Please join us for this special collaboration between the Quechua Program of CLACS at NYU and LUCHA, Latinos Unidos con Honor y Amistad, an NYU student organization founded in 1971. We will be presenting the NYU Quechua program, podcast series, and outreach initiatives, and hope to meet new people to bring into our network. This event series brings together students, faculty, and members of the community who share a passion for Quechua languages and cultures. Join us for delicious Peruvian food and great company!
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Alyshia Gálvez is associate professor and director of the CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies at Lehman College, Bronx, New York.
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Kathryn Burns is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina.
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Mark Schuller is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and NGO Leadership Development at Northern Illinois University and affiliate at the Faculté d’Ethnologie, l’Université d’État d’Haïti. Supported by the National Science Foundation and others, Schuller’s research on globalization, NGOs, gender, and disasters in Haiti has been published in twenty book chapters and peer-reviewed articles as well as public media, including a column in Huffington Post.
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Julio Ramos is a Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley, and Visiting Professor, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, is author of several books on Latin American literature and culture.
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President Hugo Chávez was larger than life, stirring hope and controversy while helping to change the political trajectory of Venezuela and Latin America. His death raises pressing and difficult questions. Participate in a discussion as we consider what Chávez's death means for Venezuela, the region, and beyond.
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The Revolution Recodified is a three-day conference (March 15-17th) at The New School and New York University about the impact of digital technology in Cuban culture and society. Keynote Speaker: Yoani Sánchez

Thank you for watching the live stream of the conference keynote address by Yoani Sánchez! Please note that there will be no live stream for the following conference days.

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Through the CLACS Teacher Residency Program, select K-12 teachers have worked closely with NYU faculty members, NYU Bobst Library resources, Facing History and Ourselves, and CLACS K-12 outreach staff to research topics relevant to Latin America. The 2012-2013 cohort explored issues of educational injustice, the Ethnic Studies debate, US Foreign Policy and ethnic conflict in Colombia, and murals as a form of public protest; all Legacies of the Chican@ Movement and US Foreign Policy. This year was also the pilot program in which Residents collaborated on the development of curricular materials with Pratt Institute’s Public Project design advocacy students. This conference will consist of presentations, workshops, and a screening of a relevant film that a number of the teachers have used in their lessons. A certificate PD credit will be provided to all attendees.
Registration is free and required: mcb519@nyu.edu
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Bruno Carvalho is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University with a research interest in modern and contemporary Brazil.
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The films of Eryk Rocha have garnered several awards and recognition at numerous international festivals, and his most recent documentary Jards (2012) will appear in MOMA’s 2013 New Directors series.
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The Perspectives from the Field speaker series is a CLACS Initiative that invites professionals to speak about their experiences and the ways that training in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at CLACS prepared them for their careers. Join us as we sit down with CLACS Alumnus Madeline Del Toro Cheney, Adjunct Faculty Member at Stony Brook University. This series is open to graduate students at CLACS, graduate and undergraduate students at NYU and other NYC universities, and members of the general public.
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Forms of cultural play have received scant attention in the context of the Cuban community in the United States. Albert Sergio Laguna examines why this is the case and provides insights from his research on Cuban Miami.
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In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set out to determine whether the Orinoco River connected with the Amazon. But what started as a trip to investigate a relatively minor geographical controversy became the basis of a five-year exploration throughout South America, Mexico, and Cuba. The discoveries amassed by von Humboldt and Bonpland were staggering, and much of today’s knowledge of tropical zoology, botany, geography, and geology can be traced back to von Humboldt’s numerous records of these expeditions.
Please click here for more information about Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, edited by Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette.
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Antonio López examines how 20th-century and contemporary expressions of walking and riding across public and private transit infrastructures signal histories of unbalanced movements, shifting tempos, and strange, everyday intimacies between Cuban whiteness and Afro-Cubanness in the U.S.
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Professor Marisol de la Cadena’s talk will interrogate the relationship between indigeneity and “politics” in the Andes.
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The main objective of this participatory conference is to provide a platform for feminist scholars and activists to engage in a meaningful dialogue about their struggles from their positions at the forefront of contemporary debates on democracy, economic, cultural and racial justice. By inviting scholars and activists who bridge Latin American, Africana, Native American, Latino, Cultural and Women’s and Gender Studies, the conference highlights diversity, encouraging the possibilities of learning from one another.

Seating is limited, please RSVP here.

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Alexandra Vazquez pries open the familiar narrativizing about the exilic “condition” that enshrouds Cuban cultural artifacts from Miami and enters into their difficult mangrove aesthetics.
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Students, faculty, and interested members of the community are welcome to join us for this special evening of games, songs, and conversation—in Quechua! Whether you are a native speaker or just have an interest in Quechua/Kichwa, we hope you will join us.
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Raymond Codrington and Keith Lawrence are Senior Research Associates at the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change. Their work examines the impact of structural racism in key opportunity areas including criminal justice, employment, and education.
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Vania Markarian is currently an Edward Laroque Tinker Visiting Professors at Columbia University with a research interest in Uruguay.
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This panel discussion, which celebrates the launch of our Spring report, will address the question: "The Climate Debt: Who Profits and Who Pays?" It will focus on the ambiguous role extractive industries, mostly based in the Global North, play in both the economic development and environmental degradation of countries of the Global South.
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The symposium will explore critically the construction of iconographies of violence—war, genocide, other forms of mass killing—through the circulation of visual images across media. The focus will be on how the moving image and photography have created a repertoire of images of atrocity by drawing on and reworking previous cinematic and photographic material.
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This talk explores the dramatic resurgence of the Left in Latin America since the late 1990s. Offering a comprehensive account of the complexities and nuances of the shifting political tides in the region, the argument provides both a theoretical framework for assessing the state of the Left and a set of cases highlighting key movements, successes, and failures. It will discuss the specificities of the new Left in Bolivia (under Evo Morales), Ecuador (under Rafael Correa), and Venezuela (under Hugo Chávez), drawing on multiple periods of fieldwork in each country over the last four years.
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The Perspectives from the Field speaker series is a CLACS Initiative that invites professionals to speak about their experiences and the ways that training in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at CLACS prepared them for their careers. Join us as we sit down with CLACS Alumnus Amy Risley, Associate Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis. This series is open to graduate students at CLACS, graduate and undergraduate students at NYU and other NYC universities, and members of the general public.
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Sean T. Mitchell is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark.
Discussant: Nadia Abu El-Haj, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College.
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo is a prize-winning writer, photographer, editor, blogger, and journalist. He will reflect on his own work and on new image repertoires that capture the end of "revolutionary" time in Cuba and the uncertain thresholds of a new political moment for the nation.
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Professor Laura Briggs is the Chair of Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies at UMass Amherst, and the author of Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption (2012).
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There are approximately 150 million people of African descent in Latin America. Yet, Afro-descendants have been consistently marginalized as undesirable elements of the society. Tanya K. Hernández is the first author to consider the salience of the customary law of race regulation for the contemporary development of racial equality laws across the region.
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Please join us for this special collaboration between the Quechua Program of CLACS at NYU and Casa Perú, a non-profit based out of Paterson, New Jersey. Come ready to eat and drink, sing and dance with special guest Rosa Carhuallanqui, a professional folk dancer from Peru. This free event will bring together students, faculty, and native Quechua speakers who share a passion for Quechua languages and cultures. Join us for fun activities and great company in Paterson, NJ, the heart of the Peruvian community in the United States! No prior knowledge of Quechua needed, just curiosity and an open heart! Hamuychis.
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Tania Bruguera is one of the leading political and performance artists of her generation. Bruguera’s work researches ways in which Art can be applied to the everyday political life; creating a public forum to debate ideas shown in their state of contradictions and focusing on the transformation of the condition of “viewer” onto one of “citizenry.”
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In 1986, a group of young Brazilian women started a movement to secure economic rights for rural women and transform women’s roles in their homes and communities. Together with activists across the country, they built a new democracy in the wake of a military dictatorship. This free event brings authors Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin to discuss the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable movement, and the unusual collaboration between father and daughter that resulted in their book Sustaining Activism.
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NYU's Graduate Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (GALAS), the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and NYC public school teachers are collaborating to put on a public screening of the film Precious Knowledge, a moving documentary about the banning of Ethnic Studies in Arizona in order to speak about the role of ethnic studies here in New York City and raise awareness about issues related to racism in schooling and immigration.
Please join us for this exciting fundraiser for the New York State Youth Leadership Council. The event is free and open to the public with rsvp to nyugalas@gmail.com.
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Please join us for this unique opportunity to exchange ideas with four young Cuban bloggers and intellectuals who will share their experiences and research about the emergent social media environment and its growing impact in a changing Cuba. This event will be in Spanish.
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The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) presents a screening of the documentary film The Tiniest Place by Tatiana Huezo. A story about a people that have learned to live with their sorrow; an Salvadorean annihilated town that re-emerges through the strength and deep love of its’ inhabitants for the land and the people.
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The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) presents a reading of the newly released book Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness by Alfredo Corchado. A story that weaves together Corchado’s search for the evil—political and criminal—acting in Mexico with his own search for belonging as a Mexican-American.
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Join us for a brown bag discussion about Suárez' recent research in a Mexican district, and a presentation of an interactive CD he has developed with respect to his research.
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