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UW Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies lecture by Falina Enriquez, Sean Mitchel and Alvaro Jarrin, on Zoom. RSVP for link.

UW Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies lecture by jouranlist Jacob Kushner and professor Karen Strier, Room 206. RSVP; limited seating (virtual option: fb.com/UWLACIS).

The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Hunter College) presents the authors of The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and in Times of Crises (Routledge, 2020),Federico Subervi-Vélez, Sandra Rodríguez-Cotto, and Jairo Lugo-Ocando. This event takes place via Zoom TODAY, May 12, 2021, at 6:00pm (EST). [See Zoom link below.] There are many reasons why Puerto Rico, after more than 122 years, continues to be a colony of the United States. The island’s media system is one of the factors that most contributes to maintaining this relationship of dependence and subjugation. T...

ONLINE: Black Gold to Dust: Visualizing Narratives and Slow Violence Apr 6, 2021 12:00 PM February 17, 2021 Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 12:00 PM CST Zoom Webinar Link: WORKSHOP: “ reimagining black Atlantic worlds” Thursday, April 8, 2021, 12:00 PM CST Zoom Meeting. *To attend the workshop and receive a link to the Zoom meeting, please RSVP to cvc@mailplus.wisc.edu. All are welcome! Lecture: In 2015 via announcements made by ExxonMobil, I learned of the offshore exploratory work for potential oil and gas extraction off the Essequibo coast, northwest Guyana in the disputed ocean waters ...

ONLINE: Facing the Environmental Mission: Small Farmers in Nicaragua and the Agro-Ecological Challenges of the Neoliberal Food Regime Apr 20, 2021 12:00 PM , Tuesday s at noon. The events will be virtual (on Zoom) for the 2020-21 school year, and are free and open to the public. Presented by: Birgit Muller, (PhD Cambridge 1986) is a Research Director at the IIAC/LAIOS, CNRS, and Professor at the EHESS in Paris. About the presentation: The efforts of small development NGOs to introduce agro-ecology in remote and mountainous regions of Nicaragua categorized as fragile and barely fit for agricul...