In this genre-bending spin on the Western, Bacurau, a fictional small town in the Brazilian sertão, is beset by strange happenings following the death of its matriarch that force the townspeople to band together to protect themselves from villainous outsiders and maintain their community.
Dr. Lisa Pawloski, professor of anthropology and Associate Dean for international programs, will deliver a talk titled "Nutrition and Health in Nicaragua and Cuba: An Anthropologist’s Perspective." Find more details on upcoming events on the LALCS calendar.
In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Aisha Finch, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University, will present a lecture titled "Black Feminist Worldmaking and the Memory of Slavery in Latin America." Thanks to the departments of History and of Gender and Race Studies, as well as the Helen Delpar Endowment for […]
In late-1980s Peru, Georgina, an indigenous Andean woman, gives birth to a baby in a clinic in Lima. The baby is whisked away and never returned. Stonewalled by the legal system, Georgina tells her story to a journalist who uncovers a web of fake clinics and abductions abetted by deep-seated corruption in Peruvian society.
Dr. Michael Steinberg, professor in the Department of Geography and New College, will deliver a talk titled "Mangroves and Fishery Conservation in Belize." Find more details on upcoming events on the LALCS calendar.
Dr. Jenny Shaw, associate professor of history, will deliver a talk titled "The Women of Rendezvous: Writing Histories of Family and Slavery in Seventeenth Century Barbados." Find more details on upcoming events on the LALCS calendar.
Alicia, who is grieving the loss of her young son, lives in the old quarter of Panama City, a rich colonial enclave surrounded by the city’s poorest neighborhoods. There she meets Chief, a street-smart boy who takes care of cars in front of her apartment and insists on getting paid for his job. Alicia keeps […]
A Black Newspaper in the Age of Slavery: Racial Politics in 1870s Brazil Reception to follow. LACLS Black Heritage Month 2023 Castilho
Archaeologist Dr. Elliot Blair of UA Anthropology join us for the opening event of the LACLS Faculty Speaker Series of fall 2023. His talk is titled "The Search for Santa Clara de Tupiqui: The Archaeology of a 17th-Century Spanish Mission on the Georgia Coast."
Please join LACLS for the first screening of our fall 2023 Film Series, featuring Los lobos. Lucía and her sons Max and Leo have just crossed the border from Mexico into the United States in search of a better life. And they share a dream as well: to visit Disneyland one day. But it is not […]
Please join LACLS for our highlighted event in honor of Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month! Dr. Geraldo Cadava will deliver a lecture titled “A Thousand Bridges: The History of Latinos in the United States,” to be followed by a reception. Dr. Cadava is Professor of History at Northwestern University and author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of An American Political Identity, […]