LACIS Blog

Written by Claire Campbell ’06 UW alum and international freelance reporter Jacob Kushner returned to campus last week to participate in a brief residency. He not only visited classrooms to talk to current students more …

Written by Serena Larkin, SoHE Communications, and Claire Campbell, LACIS Communications Intern Every October, the lobby in front of the Student Academic Affairs office at the School of Human Ecology ebbs and flows with stacks …

Written by Laura Bunn, LACIS Graduate Project Assistant, and Will Kenneally for the Badger Report Violent clashes continue in Chile as protesters fight for their dignity and rights. The movement has grown, with more than …

This fall LACIS is pleased to welcome several new individuals to its staff: Katarzyna Beilin, a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, will join LACIS as the Faculty Director.  According to her online …

Getz/Gilberto, named for the two featured artists on the album, American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist Joao Gilberto is one of the albums that best defines the Bossa Nova genre. According to blank, (insert …

Ruth Llana Fernandez and Emi Frerichs are both Ph.D. Candidates in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UW-Madison. Their research, much of which they both completed in Argentina, centers on queerness, queer bodies, and …

Lucrecia Zappi is a journalist and novelist from Buenos Aires, although she grew up in both Mexico City and Brazil. Her two novels, Acre and Jaguar Negro focus on mythical worlds with vast geographies, using …

The decision for migrants to pick up their lives and leave the familiarity of their homes is never an easy one to understand. However, one of the most commonly justified reasons for migration is the …

Since criminalization and repression under the Castro “regime”, Cuba has had a long and treacherous history in discrimination of the queer community. Now that Castro is dead the relationship is even more complicated as Cuba …