OUR MISSION
Train Latin American specialist for academic, government and private sector; and to support Latin Americanist students and Faculty in their intellectual development so that they can become and remain superior teachers and scholars. LACIS looks to serve as a local, regional, and national resource center that provides outreach, support services, and information to another university units, K-16, government, civic community and business constituencies. We are a Title VI National Resource Center, in operation since 1973 in consortium with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS).
CALENDAR
- October
- October 18
- October 23Public Lecture: Environmental Apocalypse and the Spanish Crisis NovelBy: Bécquer Seguín 4:00 PM, 260 Bascom Hall
- October 24Workshop: Hispanism and the Public HumanitiesBy: Bécquer Seguín, Johns Hopkins University10:00 AM, 482 Van Hise Hall
- October 30“Killing Two Condors With One Stone: The War on Drugs, Counterinsurgency, and the State of Siege in Northwestern Mexico”By: Adela Cedillo, PhD Candidate in History, UW-Madison12:30 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall
THE LATINX POST
Circulation and Race in Colonial Mexico
In this week’s LACIS lecture we had guest speaker Daniel Nemser, Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. Nemser focused on the discourse surrounding the …
US Political Parties, Polarization, and Immigration
Guest lecturer Barry Burden, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin Madison and Director of Elections Research Center at the University, offered his expertise on political parties, public opinion, US elections to understand …
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