CLACS

The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University.

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Mon 10/23 | Join us for a screening of Soyalism & talk with Mindi Schneider @PigPenning and Samira Moretto (UFFS prof. / UCLA visiting researcher). Pizza/refreshments at 5:30 pm. 6:00 Screening. 7:15-8:00 Discussion. Cosponsored by @Brown_IBES Register: https://t.co/b9lrhi1QQw

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Join CLACS at 4pm today for a roundtable discussion with Cogut Visiting Professor Kamala Kempadoo. Reception to follow!

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How does queerness look outside of a global north or western framework? Join us for a roundtable discussion with visiting faculty member Kamala Kempadoo and invited guests around the theme of "Defiant Bodies: New Research in Caribbean Sexualities.” Reception to follow!

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CLACS invites applications from groups of affiliated graduate students and faculty to form interdisciplinary reading and/or writing groups in the academic year 2023-2024.

Proposals must be submitted by Friday, October 6, 2023.

More information here: https://t.co/5PgP8uorAX

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CLACS Student Assistant - Job Opportunity

The CLACS Student Assistant will be responsible for various administrative tasks (totaling 10 hours) related to CLACS events and day to day office activities.

Apply here: https://t.co/jjRHPZLrwC

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CLACS is hiring!

Interested in supporting the dissemination of knowledge, research, and conversations around Latin America and the Caribbean? Are you a strategic planner with budgeting and grant-writing experience?

Check out our job posting for a CLACS Program Manager!

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Take Caribbean Feminisms M 3pm-5:30pm in Sayles Hall 105 with Kamala Kempadoo.

Shop and sign up with CAB!

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Interested in learning about the emergence and reconfiguration of Caribbean feminisms through the region’s history of women’s and gendered oppressions, subversions, and resistances?

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Take into consideration colonialism, indigeneity, slavery, indentureship, transnationality, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class. Discover strategies for knowledge production that have been utilized for studying Caribbean gender and sexuality.

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Intermediate knowledge of Spanish is required for conducting readings and class discussions.

Take "Reimaging Resistance: Debates in Contemporary Art from Latin America" on Th 4pm-6:30pm in Rockefeller Library 205 with Agustín Diez Fischer.

Shop around and sign up on CAB!

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Curious about contemporary Latin American art including theoretical texts, exhibitions, manifestos, videos, installations, paintings, and performances? Want to explore how art rethinks social constructs of gender, race, and national imaginaries?

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CLACS is pleased to announce that the 2022-2023 Annual Report is available online at https://t.co/sMeB2Cnvju.

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Last week, the CLACS community got the opportunity to meet with Providence-born Brian A. Nichols, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

With Nichols, students, staff, and faculty discussed current issues impacting Latin America and the Caribbean.

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A huge congratulations and kudos to our LACA seniors on a job well done presenting their senior thesis/capstone projects today.

Your projects were creative, interesting, and vulnerable.

Thank you for sharing your projects with our community!

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CLACS is thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2023 CLACS Dissertation Prize is Joshua Schnell of the Anthropology Department.

His dissertation is titled, "Cultures of Oral Care in the Southern Maya Lowlands (250 BCE - 1000 CE)."

Congratulations, Joshua!

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Congratulations to our CLACS 2023 research award recipients!

We are excited to support your work and wish you the best!

Learn more about the awards and their recipients here: https://t.co/yvDV1xndbq

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CLACS is thrilled to share the full brochure from the Jasmine Thomas-Girvan exhibition "Window on Memory," which is currently on display at the Cohen Gallery (154 Angell Street, Providence).
The exhibition runs through June 18!
Details here: https://t.co/hwFeUgrnnV

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TONIGHT! CLACS is proud to present the solo exhibition "Window on Memory" by Jasmine Thomas-Girvan. Join us TONIGHT, April 27 at 6pm in the Cohen Gallery for the opening event and reception.

More information: https://t.co/hwFeUgrnnV

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TOMORROW: CLACS is proud to present the solo exhibition "Window on Memory" by Jasmine Thomas-Girvan. Join us on Thursday, April 27 at 6pm in the Cohen Gallery for the opening event and reception.

More information: https://t.co/hwFeUgrnnV