Written by Mario Benedetti. Format by Claire Campbell, LACIS Communications and Social Media Intern.
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I want to write the poems // Quiero escribir los versos
Written by Tatiana Oroño. Translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval. Formats by Claire Campbell, LACIS Communications and Social Media Intern
Hummingbirds // Colibríes
Written by Circe Maia. Translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval. Formats by Claire Campbell, LACIS Communications and Social Media Intern
On The Ground News from Peru
Written by Nicole Fadellin, PhD in Spanish: Latin American Literature, and Jaime Vargas Luna, Public Servant. The Peruvian government has implemented the most comprehensive response to the pandemic in Latin America. On March 16, ten …
On The Ground News from Mexico
Written by Dr. Lucía Melgar, edited by Claire Campbell, LACIS Social Media and Communications Intern. Mexico enters phase III. Life in Mexico City started changing by mid-March: public and private universities, mots private schools decided …
On the Ground News from Brazil, with update
Video and writing by Jean Vilbert, a Judge, Writer and Professor in São Paulo, Brazil. Coronavirus is coming to the Tropics. What to do now? As coronavirus advances, Brazilians fear a catastrophe, wondering whether the …
On The Ground News from Ecuador
By Tod Swanson, Associate Professor at ASU working on the Amazonian social relation to nature. Edits and addition by Claire Campbell, LACIS Social Media and Communications Intern. We left Ecuador on an 11:30 PM flight …
Nabuco 2020 Award Announcement!
by Janel Anderson (LACIS Outreach Coordinator & PhD Candidate, UW-Madison) Each year LACIS, in collaboration with the International Division at UW Madison, sponsors the Joaquim Nabuco Award. The award is given to a degree-seeking student …
On the Ground News from Colombia: Fault Lines
Written by Paula Ungar, Colombian biologist, PhD in Environmental Sciences I spend the quarantine days in my old, quiet apartment, in which, from the window, I can see the shape of the Andean mountains that …
Message to LACIS Community…
(edited Friday, March 13th) Dear LACIS Community (including faculty, staff, students, and community supporters)… It is very likely that you have already heard about UW-Madison’s decision to temporarily suspend face-to-face course instruction, as well as …