Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean (WLAC)

The Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean is an interdisciplinary forum and intellectual community for graduate students and faculty whose work and research are focused on Latin America or the Caribbean. The workshop hosts regular presentations of work in progress by students, faculty, and invited guests, as well as special events and gatherings. Participants come from a wide range of disciplines from across the social sciences and humanities, enabling an interdisciplinary conversation and exchange around questions of common interest to those whose work focuses on the region

Alternate Thursdays, 5–6:30 pm
Center for Latin American Studies, 5828 S University Ave, Pick Hall for International Studies, Room 118
Workshop coordinators for 2023-24: Azucena Garza and Ricardo Soler Rubio

Winter 2025 Program:

• January 9th - Autoficciones del canon nacional puertorriqueño: Manuel Ramos Otero ante su propio cuento - Jean Vallejo
• January 23rd - Representations of the Amazon in Twenty-First Century South American Speculative Fiction - Eduardo Leão
• February 6th - Gendered Care Practices Under El Salvador’s State of Exception - Anne Ruelle
• February 27th - Session with Chilean writer Lina Meruane