Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean (WLAC)

The Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean is an interdisciplinary forum and intellectual community for graduate students and faculty whose work and research are focused on Latin America or the Caribbean. The workshop hosts regular presentations of work in progress by students, faculty, and invited guests, as well as special events and gatherings. Participants come from a wide range of disciplines from across the social sciences and humanities, enabling an interdisciplinary conversation and exchange around questions of common interest to those whose work focuses on the region

Alternate Thursdays, 5–6:30 pm
Center for Latin American Studies, 5828 S University Ave, Pick Hall for International Studies, Room 118
Workshop coordinators for 2023-24: Azucena Garza and Ricardo Soler Rubio

Spring 2025 Program:

• April 3rd - "Here We Planted Everything": Work and the Grounding of Rural Politics in Twentieth-Century Brazil - Chris Lesser NC (Assistant Professor - UNC Charlotte)
• April 17th - "De imaginarios y cartografías: Marruecos en las narrativas geográficas españolas" - Miriam Borrero (UChicago PhD Student)
• May 8th - "El Agrónomo" - Agroquímicos en la ficción cinematográfica argentina - Martin Turmes
• May 15th - El extravío de los signos: Tres ensayos sobre el duelo y porvenir - Natalia Mendoza Rockwell
• May 22nd - "Anxieties and Knowledge: Explaining Variation in Constraints on Humanitarian Access amidst the Colombian Civil war" - Reynell Badillo Sarmiento (UChicago PhD Student)