CLACS Outreach Events and Activities 2024-25

CLACS 2024 Potluck

Dia de los Muertos presentation at ECM 10-29-24

International Jayhawk fest Spring 2025 

Presentation on Paraguayan dance and mate cooking class (SW Middle School)

Dario Euraque talk Oct. 17, 2024

Tails & Traditions Dec. 7, 2024

MERIENDAS

FALL 2024

Gabriel Castro (Political Science PhD Student)

"Left, Right, or Center? The Self-Assessed Ideological Preferences of the Members of Brazil's House of Representatives"

David Martinez (PhD student of the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program)

“What happens in education when political, socioeconomic, and cultural borders conflict? A case of Brazilian diaspora in Paraguay”

Mercedes Velarde Acurio (Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant Award recipient for instructing Quechua)

"Andean Flavors: The Culinary Legacy of Inka´s Culture”

Kiera Eckhardt (Anthropology PhD Student)

"Refugee Rights & Perspectives of Refugee Service Providers in Ecuador"

Nate Blum (Geography and Atmospheric Science PhD student)

"Food sharing in Kaqchikel-Communities"

Christa Osarczuk (Anthropology PhD Student) 

"Structural Violence, Geography and Equine Welfare in Guatemala"

Elizabeth Chunda (MA Student, African & African-American Studies)

"Roots and Routes: Pan-African Legacies and Identities in Brazil"

Laryssa Rodrigues (MA Spanish)

"The Politics of Afro-Brazilian Music and Religion: Contemporary Female Afro-Brazilian Singers and Their Novel Representations of Candomblé"

Cap McLiney (MA Geography)

"The Mennonites of Masisea, Peru: A Tinker field project on land-use in the Peruvian Amazon"

SPRING 2025

Laryssa Rodrigues (MA Spanish)

"Revival of Afro-Brazilian popular culture – coco de roda as a case study"

Hispano Duron (Associate Professor, Department of Film & Media Studies)

"Censored Valle? The Experiment of Rafael Murillo and the National Theater Company of Honduras"

Raúl Alejandro Rangel Fernández (Indigenous Studies MA with a concentration in Latin American and the Caribbean Studies)

"Find the Macharo of Costa Rica: A research study of the Indigenous Maleku people of Costa Rica"

Antônio R. M. Simões (Associate professor, Spanish & Portuguese department)

" Language Education in the Digital Age: The Power of VR, AI, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Mistral Le Chat and Beyond"

Corey McCulloch (PhD candidate, Linguistics)

"The Importance of Dialect in Second Language Acquisition"

Matheus Romanetto (Ph.D. student Sociology) 

"A new Brazilian avunculate? Kinship and political conflict in São Paulo"

Alysia Martinez (BA Psychology)

"A cognitive network analysis of semantic associates in monolingual English speakers and learners of Kaqchikel"