Dr. Cassander Smith of UA English will join us for the second event in the fall 2023 LACLS Speaker Series. Her talk is titled "Black Legend Rhetoric at the Borders of West Africa and the Caribbean in the 16th Century."
Please join LACLS for the second event of the fall 2023 film series, featuring Infancia clandestina! After years of exile, Juan and his family return to Argentina under fake identities. Juan’s parents are members of the Montoneros Organization, which is fighting against the Military Junta that rules the country. Because of their political activities, the […]
Dr. Briana Royster of UA Gender & Race Studies will join us for the third event of the fall 2023 LACLS Faculty Speaker Series. Her talk is titled "'The Woman Century, All Over the World': Black Women and Missionary Work in British and Dutch Guiana, 1900-1950."
Please join LACLS for the third event in our fall 2023 Film Series, featuring Voces inocentes! A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him. […]
The first film screening in our spring 2024 series! Snacks will be served, and space may be limited. This documentary tells the story of an indigenous child from Paraguay who, after surviving the massacre of her family by white settlers, was kidnapped and subjected to inhumane and objectifying study in the name of early-20th-century scientific […]
LACLS special event in honor of Black History Month, featuring the Slave Societies Digital Archive and a visit to UA from Jane Landers (Vanderbilt) and David LaFevor (UT-Arlington). With catered treats and hot chocolate. 10:00, Dr. Landers: “Racing Against Time to Save Endangered History,” and 11:00, Dr. LaFevor: “Applying the Archive: The Narratives of African emancipados from […]
The second film screening in our spring 2024 series. Snacks will be served, and space may be limited. The protagonists of this documentary are the descendants of the indigenous peoples who were subjected to the Argentine state’s campaign of forced eviction and extermination during the 19th century. By portraying their attempt to reconstruct their identity […]
Dr. David Tézil of UA Modern Languages and Classics will speak on "Sociolinguistic challenges and new perspectives on determining French speakers in Creole communities: the case of Haiti." Snacks will be served, and space may be limited.
The third film screening in our spring 2024 series. Snacks will be served, and space may be limited. Hoping to put to rest year of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín Espósito begins writing a novel based on an unsolved murder mystery. With the help of a former colleague, he attempts to […]
Dr. Nikhil Bilwakesh of UA English will speak on his work treating "Pills of Powdered Nutmeg in the Americas." Snacks be be served, and space may be limited.
Dr. Luciana Giorgio Cosenzo of UA Social Work will speak on "Advancing Health Equity among Latinos/as through Promoting Sleep Health." Snacks will be served, and space may be limited.
The final event in our spring 2024 film series. Refreshments will be served, and space may be limited. This tense historical legal drama follows the trial of the members of the military government that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983 and sanctioned torture, extrajudicial murder, and forced disappearance of civilians. The film closely follows the […]