LACIS' Blog is Back!
We have been working hard to get the LACIS blog back up and running. Here are some recent articles we hope you will take a peak at:
"LACIS Alum Jacob Kushner Returns for Week-Long Residency"
"Remembrance Celebration: Community Altar Project"
"Madison Community Stands in Solidarity with Chilean Protesters"
(11/19): “Chile’s Political Crisis and the Pinochet Constitution”
Presented by Javier Couso, Professor of Constitutional Law, Universidad Diego Portales, and Utrecht University; and Moderated by Alexandra Huneeus, Professor of Law; Director of the Global Legal Studies Center, UW-Madison, and Heinz Klug, Evjue-Bascom Professor in Law, UW-Madison.
After weeks of massive protests both peaceful and riotous, the government of Chile has announced that Chile will move toward a constitutional convention to replace the 1980 constitution, put in place by the Pinochet military regime. Professor Couso will appear by Skype to discuss why Chile needs a new constitution, and what are the different avenues by which this can happen. Professor Couso worked as a consultant to President Michelle Bachelet’s administration on its constitutional convention proposal. He has published extensively on the Chilean constitution and the neo-liberal model put in place by the Pinochet regime, and kept in place by democratically elected governments for the past 30 years.
Free and Open to the Public
A light lunch will be served on a first come, first served basis.
New Spring 2020 Approved LACIS Course List
Are you looking for a course to take next spring that counts for LACIS credit OR are you simply searching for a course with content related to our region of the world? If so, please review the list we have provided of NEW courses being offered by our affiliated faculty next spring!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
- November
- November 21
- November 25
- November 26
- December
- December 2
- December 3“Healing from the Trauma of War: Developing Sustainable, Culturally-responsive, Community-based Mental Health Supports"Presented by David Rosenthal, Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, UW-Madison12:30 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall
OUR MISSION:
The mission of the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program as both a Title VI Resource Center*, and as an academic program is:
- To train Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian specialists for academic, government, and private sector work.
- To support the intellectual development and intercultural knowledge of students and faculty interested in the region.
- To serve as a local, regional, and national resource center that provides outreach, support, and information to other university units, K-12 educators, government, community, and business constituencies.
*LACIS is funded in part by a Title VI Resource grant through the U.S. Department of Education’s International Foreign Language Education (IFLE) program.