• 2024-01-30 - CLACS affiliate Professor James Dalling (Plant Biology, University of Illinois) and his team discovered that a species of tree fern exclusive to Panama "reanimates its own dead leaf fronds, converting them into root structures that feed the mother plant", as reported by UIUC's News...
  • 2024-01-30 - CLACS Affiliate Professor Damarys Canache (Political Science, University of Illinois) spoke with News Bureau about the Biden administration's decision to ease sanctions on Venezuela, the upcoming 2024 presidential election in the South American country, and other topics involving Venezuelan politics. Click...
  • 2024-01-12 - Join us in congratulating CLACS affiliate Professor Silvina Montrul (Spanish and Linguistics, University of Illinois) for winning the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguistics Society of America for her book "Native speakers, interrupted," published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. This past semester, Stanford University ranked Dr. Montrul in the top two...
  • 2023-12-04 - Thank you for joining CLACS, LAC Cities Collective and Priscilla Ferreira (Geography and Latinx & Caribbean Studies, Rutgers) for her lecture "The economics of abolition and community-engaged scholarship"  on November 29th! Click here to see our CLACS Events calendar.
  • 2023-12-04 - Thank you for joining CLACS and the Urbana Free Library to enjoy Latin American music from all over the Americas on December 1st! The Latin American Ensemble did an amazing performance directed by Dr. Guido Sánchez-Portuguez (School of Music, UIUC).  
  • 2023-12-04 - Thank you for joining CLACS and Dr. Pamela Martinez (Microbiology and Statistics, UIUC) for her lecture "Social Inequity and SARS-CoV-2 Dynamics" on November 6th! Click here to check CLACS events calendar.
  • 2023-11-03 - Watch the Zoom Webinar for our Charlas Políticas: Elections in Argentina roundtable with LACS Maryland.  Click here to watch the recording and subscribe to CLACS' YouTube channel!   {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/U1BDarj0l1U.jpg?itok=MOb4IQ-b","...
  • 2023-11-03 - Our Dia de Muertos Trick or Treat on October 30 was a huge success! Lots of students stopped by to see our ofrenda and grab some candy! Ui7 Newsroom and Good Morning Illini also came over to cover what happened and interview Kasia Szremski, our Associate Director.
  • 2023-10-30 - Thank you for joining CLACS and Dr. Susan Aguiñaga (Kinesiology and Community Health, Illinois) for her lecture, Cumbia, Salsa, and Bachata: Improving brain health through Latin dance.   
  • 2023-10-16 - Watch the Zoom Webinar for our Charlas Políticas: Elections in Guatemala roundtable with LACS Maryland.  Click here to watch the recording and subscribe to CLACS' YouTube channel!    {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/5iS3GfJu5mM.jpg?itok=XCXstyRh","video_url":"...
  • 2023-10-09 - Thank you for joining CLACS at Victoria Sanford's book presentation, Textures of Terror, The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez, on October 2nd! The talk was a success, and listeners got to hear Dr. Sanford talk about her new book and feminicide in Guatemala.  Check out more CLACS Lecture Series events in our calendar...
  • 2023-09-14 - The Sustaining Mesoamerican Indigenous Language Event was a huge success! CLACS hosted a 2-day event at the start of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages: Experiences, Strategies, and Community. Guest speakers Celerina Patricia Sanchez Santiago (Poet, Mexico), Elizabeth Alvarado Garduno (UNAM, Mexico), Cuitlahuac Arreola Martinez (California-based Activist and Educator), Jose Sanchez...
  • 2023-09-06 - An exhibition at the Illini Union Art Gallery on Thursday, September 7, will feature photographs of artwork from the Mexican Muralism movement! The opening celebration of "Movement routes, Mexican muralism" begins with a symposium from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the Pine Lounge of the Illini Union. The symposium will feature Ricardo Alvarado Tapia, the coordinator of the Manuel Toussaint Photographic...
  • 2023-09-01 - Join CLACS in congratulating affiliates Flavia Andrade, Erik McDuffie, Mariselle Melendez, Stephen Nesbitt, and Gilberto Rosas for accepting new executive officer appointments in departments and other academic units within the College of LAS!  See list below for position details:  Flavia Andrade, director, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies  Erik McDuffie, acting director,...
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