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 …
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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 …
New Latin American Area Studies-Educator Network (LAA-SEN) hosts first meeting day
By Janel Anderson, LACIS Outreach Coordinator Not even a sweeping snowstorm could stop teachers from all over south-central Wisconsin from gathering together on February 13th to participate in the inaugural meeting of LAAS-EN, the Latin …
LACIS’ Fall 2019 Semester-in-Review
Written by Claire Campbell, LACIS Communications and Social Media Intern, B.A., Journalism & Spanish As part of our mission in the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program, we aim to educate and reach out, …
Alberto Vargas Helps to Launch Mexico Chapter of the WI Alumni Association
by Alberto Vargas, LACIS Associate Director LACIS Associate Director, Alberto Vargas, participated in the launching of the Mexico Chapter of the Wisconsin Alumni Association, on November 16, 2019 in Mexico City. The event gathered a …
Panel on Indigenous Studies: Debates on Indigeneity
Written by Laura Bunn, LACIS Graduate Project Assistant The LACIS Race and Indigeneity Speaker Series raise essential questions about how focusing on survival and resurgence of ethnic and indigenous cultures can address some of the …