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Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Ancient peoples of Latin America fashioned status objects from gold, jade, shell
April 3, 2018
Merienda Speaker Series will spark discussion on transcultural cinema
February 28, 2018
CLACS welcomes head consul of Mexico in KC
February 27, 2018
A revolution in crosslinguistic research
December 4, 2017
Expanding the Dialogues: Afro-Latinx Feminisms
November 29, 2017
Sanctuary city order ruling demonstrates local government influence on immigration policy
November 22, 2017
Experts can comment on Haiti, US immigration policy
November 21, 2017
Fall Merienda Speaker Series will kick off with discussion on NAFTA
September 7, 2017
A Star is Born: KU lecturer a hit among indigenous Central Americans
May 16, 2017
KU CLACS to Host Graduate Symposium of Interdisciplinary Research in Latin America and the Caribbean
March 31, 2017
51 KU students receive Undergraduate Research Awards for spring 2017
February 17, 2017
English professor's lecture to address 'stories of the undocumented'
February 16, 2017
KU Graduate Students Use Tinker Field Research Grants for International Research and Travel
January 23, 2017
KU CLACS to Host Spring Merienda Lecture Series with Speakers from KU and Regional Universities
January 17, 2017
Garden City offers lessons on educating diverse populations, study says
November 15, 2016
Scholars to discuss role of area studies in the global age
November 2, 2016
KU CLACS to Present a Collaborative Project, "Portraits of Latinx Identity"
October 31, 2016
Nontraditional conference will explore activist media in the Americas
October 21, 2016
KU alumnus Juan Manuel Santos wins Nobel Peace Prize
October 7, 2016
Lecture series to focus on multicultural issues in speech-language-hearing
September 27, 2016
Exhibition: ‘In the Shadow of Cortés: From Veracruz to Mexico City’
September 12, 2016
KU professor, Brazil native can speak with media about country's ongoing impeachment, demonstrations, corruption scandal
September 12, 2016
The New Colonization of Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast >>
September 6, 2016
American Latino literature has focused more on undocumented immigrants
August 29, 2016
Researchers help implement positive sport environment in Guatemalan youth camps
August 29, 2016
CLACS prof and former Director, Brent Metz, offers timely and important suggestions to improve media coverage of immigration
July 13, 2016
Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Awards 2016 Tinker Field Research Grants
May 19, 2016
CLACS prof. Melissa Birch can comment on Brazil's political crisis
May 16, 2016
CLACS profs Anatol, Anderson, Farah, Garibotto, and Tosta among 2016 promotions
May 11, 2016
CLACS affiliate prof. Michael Crawford honored for work in anthropological genetics
May 9, 2016
CLACS faculty among organizers of race & migration symposium
March 30, 2016
CLACS Prof. Luciano Tosta edits new volume on Brazilian culture and society
March 25, 2016
Seven facts you may not know about Brazil
March 24, 2016
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies receives ‘Latino Americans: 500 Years of History’ grant
February 19, 2016
Mexican artist Nacho Rodriguez-Bach installs "The Path of Thought" on Campus
February 11, 2016
KU community remembers Prof. Charles Stansifer, former CLACS director
February 10, 2016
CLACS faculty member Michelle Heffner Hayes demystifies flamenco in new book
February 1, 2016
CLACS Faculty Member Ruben Flores: Schools Should Learn from Indigenous Mexican Students
January 29, 2016
KU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Offers Tinker Field Research Grants
January 26, 2016
CLACS faculty member Menjivar studies problems faced by Mexicans returning from the USA
January 20, 2016
U.S. migrants returning to Mexico face challenges, strain the system
January 20, 2016
CLACS Faculty, Rafael Acosta, talks about Mexican drug lord ballads and the lore of 'El Chapo'
January 14, 2016
CLACS faculty among Commons Starter Grant Winners
January 13, 2016
KU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Awards Tinker Field Research Grants
December 4, 2015
CLACS core faculty Tamara Falicov reviews Hollywood's remake of Argentine thriller
November 18, 2015
CLACS Winter 2016 Tinker Field Research Grant Competition Begins
September 2, 2015
CLACS affiliate faculty member Michael Crawford co-authors study on the peopling of the Americas
July 21, 2015
CLACS core faculty members Peterson and Soberon link temperature to bird diversity loss in Mexico
June 30, 2015
KU CLACS Receives NEH grant for "500 Years of Latin@ Americanidad"
June 16, 2015
Graduating LACS/History senior Cassandra Osei wins Leffel Award
May 11, 2015
CLACS core faculty member Gregory Cushman named Carnegie Fellow
April 22, 2015
CLACS core faculty member Gregory Cushman to receive University Scholarly Achievement Award
April 9, 2015
History/LACS major Cassandra Osei among University Award Winners
April 2, 2015
Specialist on Central American-US Migration to join KU as Foundation Professor
March 26, 2015
Dole Institute to host discussion on U.S. recognition of Cuba
March 10, 2015
Discussion will focus on cultural exchange between China, Latin America
March 2, 2015
Things that Fly in the Night: CLACS affiliate faculty member Giselle Anatol publishes book on Caribbean vampires.
March 2, 2015
CLACS now accepting applications for graduate field research grants
February 17, 2015
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies welcomes new director
February 17, 2015
‘Miami+Havana,’ student exhibition of Study Abroad trip, opens
February 4, 2015
Two CLACS undergraduate students secure Undergraduate Research Awards
January 14, 2015
LACS Minor Alex Robinson is a 2015 KU Global Scholar
November 20, 2014
CLACS Faculty member Clifton Pye researching indigenous language learning
November 14, 2014
CLACS Assistant Director's LAA 300 class explores life, death, and the living dead
October 17, 2014
KU Council for Social Studies develops classroom materials for teachers using CLACS resources.
September 24, 2014
CLACS core faculty member Ketty Wong is back from studing Salsa and other social dancing in China.
September 23, 2014
Submitted to KU News - Human Rights Activist to Explain Child Refugee Crisis along U.S.-Mexico Border
September 17, 2014
PhD candidate Katya Soll wins National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest
September 15, 2014
Prof. Enrique Chaves-Carballo of KU Medical Center, author of the recent book “American Medicine and the Panama Canal,” is available to discuss the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Canal's opening.
August 13, 2014
CLACS Assistant Director Peter Haney has published a book chapter on Mexican American theater in San Antonio during World War II.
July 17, 2014
CLACS core faculty member Stuart Day has co-edited a book on public intellectuals in Mexico.
July 9, 2014
Research by CLACS affiliate faculty member Caroline Chaboo shows that usually solitary leaf beetles 'act like helicopter moms.'
June 24, 2014
CLACS Affiliate Faculty Member Jorge Pérez Selected as 2014-2015 Senior Administrative Fellow
June 19, 2014
Ready for the World Cup? Prontos pra Copa do Mundo? ¿Listos para el mundial?
June 11, 2014
Incoming CLACS Associate Director Ruben Flores's new book documents the influence of postrevolutionary Mexican thought on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
April 24, 2014
CLACS core faculty lead interdisciplinary exploration of land-use in Mexico
April 8, 2014
CLACS organizes Educator Workshop, "Children of Conflict, Children of Peace"
April 2, 2014
Graduate Research Syposium Schedule Set
March 6, 2014
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Sponsors Symposium
February 19, 2014
Submitted to KU News - KU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies wins Tinker Field Research Grant
January 15, 2014
Submitted to KU News - KU Film Student Premieres Short at Honduran Festival
October 31, 2013
Fall 2013 Langston Hughes Professor to lecture on Afro-Cuban literature
October 21, 2013
Submitted to KU News - Mexican Human Rights Activist Francisco Cerezo to discuss "Drugs, Guns, and U.S. Policies in Mexico" at KU.
October 16, 2013
Author and film director/producer Marcos Villatoro to screen his film Tamale Road
October 3, 2013
CLACS faculty member Chris Brown has undertaken an important and risky survey of stingless bees in the Brazilian Amazon
October 1, 2013
Vicky Unruh recipient of 2013 Chancellors Club Career Teaching Award
September 24, 2013
CLACS core faculty member Tamara Falicov named a Docking Faculty Scholar
September 20, 2013
KU researchers work with colleagues at University of Costa Rica to fight dengue fever
September 19, 2013
KU's Students for Sweatshop-Free Apparel to host workers from the Alta Gracia fair trade clothing factory
September 18, 2013
Workshop to focus on forming a KU water research community
September 11, 2013
Submitted to KU News - MERCOSUR Conference to Address South American Regionalism
September 9, 2013
CLACS affiliate professor Christina Bejarano publishes "The Latina Advantage"
September 6, 2013
Position Announcement: LACS/CREES Office Manager
July 22, 2013
Position Announcement: Graduate Student Hourly
July 22, 2013
KU's Applied English Center Welcomes Brazilian Teachers.
July 22, 2013
FLAS fellow Margo Bogossian featured in UDK study abroad article.
July 15, 2013
Veronica Garibotto Wins Book Award
June 19, 2013
Pan American Seminar
April 19, 2013
Dr. Laura Padilla
April 5, 2013
New Myths About Ancient Mayas: A History of the 2012 Phenomenon
November 7, 2012
Witness for Peace Lecture at ECM
October 23, 2012
Reinvisioning Spanish Language Education
October 20, 2012
Sustainable Development in Guatemala
October 8, 2012
Summer Study Abroad - Field Biology in Amazonian Peru
October 7, 2012
Health in Latin America Symposium
September 7, 2012
Facebook in Kaqchikel Maya
August 9, 2012
Engineers Without Borders host workshop with International Goals
July 21, 2012
Dr. John Hoopes featured in Honduran Newspaper Series Special
July 16, 2012
Sarah Stern Selected as One of the Top 10 College Women of 2012 by Glamour
May 12, 2012
Dr. Anita Herzfeld's Retirement Reception
May 10, 2012
Professor and Undergraduate Director of LAS, Anita Herzfeld Retires
May 10, 2012
New Introductory Level Course on Modern Nahuatl
May 4, 2012
LAS Asst. Director, Peter Haney talks Art
April 5, 2012
Dr. Jorge Soberón receives award from President Felipe Calderón of Mexico
March 15, 2012
KU Librarian will be the new curator of the Latin American collection at Yale University
March 3, 2012
Summer Study Abroad: Language & Culture in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua
March 1, 2012
University of Kansas Geographer William Woods quoted in the New York Times
January 14, 2012
KU anthropologists help re-wrap Amazonian mummy
January 6, 2012
Former Latin American Studies Masters Student and KU Athlete Wins Brazil's Version of 'The Apprentice'
December 21, 2011
LAS Student to Exhibit Brazilian Photography
September 22, 2011
Charles Stansifer Gifts Latin American Collection
September 21, 2011
University of Costa Rica Delegation visits KU
September 1, 2011
2011 UCR Collective
August 22, 2011
LAS Major and Local Photographer Document Life in Brazil
August 15, 2011
NEW KULAC Course for Fall 2011
August 1, 2011
Ignacio Carvajal finds passion for language, literature
May 18, 2011
2011 Kansas-Paraguay Partnership Special Merit Scholarship
May 2, 2011
Congratualations to 2011-12 FLAS Fellowship Award Winners
May 1, 2011
Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Scholarship 2011 Winners
April 30, 2011
Stansifer Fellowship Recipient
April 29, 2011
Faculty Research Cluster Recipients for 2011-2012
April 28, 2011
Congratualations to our Graduate Research Competition Winners
April 27, 2011
New Center of Latin American Studies Scholarworks collection
April 26, 2011
LAS alumni highlights connection of new OAS course to exciting internship
November 26, 2010
George W. Woodyard remembered by Latin American Studies
November 7, 2010
Latin American Studies Director to receive Woodyard International Educator Award
November 4, 2010
Submitted to KU News - CLACS Musicologist Ketty Wong gets Fullbright Award
CLACS prof Bart Dean discusses "freedom of mobility" in a global context, and highlights an indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon
Exhibition: ‘In the Shadow of Cortés: From Veracruz to Mexico City’
KU CLACS to Present a Collaborative Project, "Portraits of Latinx Identity"
Will Donald Trump Be A Good President?
Restrepo-Osorio recognized with prestigious University Award
KU Welcomes Scholars and Indigenous Rights Activists to "Paraguay at the Crossroads"
KU CLACS to Host Fall Merienda Speaker Series with Speakers from KU
September 7, 2017
KU CLACS to Host Sanctuary Community Forum
September 13, 2017
KU CLACS Hosts Waggoner Research Colloquium on Caribbean Representations
November 9, 2017
Visiting Scholars from the University of Houston to Lead Discussion on U.S. Latinx Representation
November 17, 2017
KU CLACS and Latinx Studies Initiative to Host Student Mental Health Symposium
CLACS Welcomes Head Consul of Mexico in Kansas City
February 27, 2018
KU CLACS to Host Spring Merienda Speaker Series with Faculty from KU
February 28, 2018
KU Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Receives Humanities Kansas Grant
July 11, 2018
UNEXPECTED CARIBBEAN SYMPOSIUM AT KU
October 17, 2018