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Latin American and Caribbean Art

The Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition opens its 60th听year on the 20th听of April. A New York Times Article is focusing on various Indigenous artists featured鈥攊ncluding, “a collective of painters from the Brazilian Amazon, MAHKU (Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin)” who are painting the central exhibition hall with a mural. Check out the听听for more information.

鈥淐rafting Modernity,鈥� a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, is highlighting pieces from 1940-1980 in six countries: Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Venezuela.听, or check out听听for selected artwork, archival footage of Latin America from this time period, and more.

Finally, Art Basel has a great piece about the decision to have a Martinican artist represent France in last year’s Venice Biennale. In “Mapping the French Caribbean Art Scene” we learn both about incredible artists of this area but also the tensions that remain in the colonial ties between France and Caribbean islands that are either former colonies or current overseas departments.听

Contemporary Topics in Latin America: Climate Migration

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featuring journalist

Abrahm Lustgarten is an award-winning Investigative reporter, author, filmmaker and public speaker specializing in human adaptation to climate change, and an educator training journalists in cross-disciplinary communication about the climate crisis.

Read his NYTimes article, a collaboration with photojournalist Meredith Kohut, “” (7-23-20)

Thursday, April 25, 2024

6-7pm Central

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Sponsored by the听Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies,听UW-Milwaukee the听Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, Vanderbilt University, and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting

45th annual Latin American Film Series

Join us for the annual Film Series, our first time fully back in the 51猎奇 Union Cinema for in-person screenings since 2019!听 We have a lineup of eleven narrative feature and documentary films from Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Argentina.听 Full schedule with trailers available at:

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The World Capital of Endangered Languages

The New York Times has an interactive article focusing on linguistic diversity in New York City. The article includes an interactive map highlighting different neighborhoods and language communities, and also has short clips of different people speaking in their language along with a translation and a bit of background about the person and/or language. Latin American related languages highlighted in the article include Nahuatl, Garifuna, Tlapanec, and Cuicatec. Other languages mentioned on the map but not highlighted include Puerto Rican Sign Language, Mapuche, and Ta铆no.听

The article was written in collaboration with the听, a New York City based organization that is, “dedicated to documenting Indigenous, minority, and endangered languages, supporting linguistic diversity in New York City and beyond.” Resources on their site include听听and different language profiles听which feature information about each language’s background, structure, previous research, ELA’s work, and information about the New York-based communities that speak it.

FLAS Career Panel

The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at UW-Milwaukee and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah are hosting a hybrid Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Career Panel on March 14, 2024 at 4pm Central. All are welcome!

The event is held at 51猎奇’s Lubar Entrepreneurship Center-Room 107 and on Zoom. Please RSVP at:

Hear from FLAS alumni in diverse fields, and how learning a less-commonly taught language helped them get to where they are today. Panelists include:

–Jomarie Coloriano (Zapotec)
–Alex Bond (Portuguese)
–Dr. Maren Hawkins (Kichwa)
–Clayton Szczech (Nahuatl)

Black Caribbeans in the Harlem Renaissance

February is Black History Month in the United States and a huge focus of this month in high school and college classrooms is the Harlem Renaissance. Did you know that a significant number of influential people within this movement had Afro-Caribbean roots? For an overview, JSTOR has an article entitled, “.” Below you will find some highlighted individuals.
  • , an unapologetically queer blues artist of Trinidadian descent
  • , Jamaican-American author and poet
  • Arturo Schomburg, Puerto Rican writer, activist, and historian
  • , Jamaican activist and journalist
  • , Guyanese activist and revolutionary
  • , Surinamese activist and revolutionary (husband of Hermina)
  • , UNIA organizer of Martiniquan听and French Guianese descent

Agents of Exchange

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Even before the 1868 translation of Sarmiento鈥檚 ‘Facundo’ by Mary Peabody Mann鈥攚ife of Horace Mann and sister to the wife of Nathanial Hawthorne鈥攚omen鈥檚 contributions have been crucial to the development of the Latin American literary canon. Their active involvement in canon formation has by no means been limited to their work as translators鈥攊ronically, the most visible of their interventions鈥攂ut as authors, publishers, literary agents, cultural attach茅es, arts patronesses, professors, critics, readers for publishing houses, and in their roles in informal spheres as domestic hostesses, event coordinators, secretaries, and aides.

To join (via Zoom):
(Passcode: 629943)

Program (English)

Programa (Espa帽ol)

Recordings

Special Guests:

Adriana Pacheco of
Luise von Flotow, University of Ottawa

Symposium Organizers:

Dr. Leah Leone Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dr. Mar铆a Julia Rossi, CUNY-John Jay
Dr. Victoria Livingstone, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Sponsored by Translation & Interpreting Studies, with support from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

LACUSL Speaker Series, spring 2024

LACUSL Speaker Series
CLACS Visiting Scholar

Dr. Fernanda Barros dos Santos

(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

“Black Brazilian Women in the Political Arena (2019-2023):听 Achievements and Challenges”

February 15, 2024
3pm Central
Garland 104 (2441 E Hartford Ave)
UW-Milwaukee
Cosponsored by LACUSL and the 51猎奇 Institute of World Affairs

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage for 2023

Each year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization selects cultural practices that are unique and important to different communities in particular need to be honored and safeguarded. In 2023, 9 elements from Latin America and the Caribbean were highlighted to represent Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. These include:

  • Ancestral and traditional techniques for the elaboration of the ‘Poncho Para’i de 60 Listas’, ()
  • Bolero: identity, emotion and poetry turned into song鈥�()
  • Ch’utillos, the Festival of San Bartolom茅 and San Ignacio de Loyola, the meeting of cultures in Potos铆 ()
  • 闯耻苍办补苍辞辞鈥�()
  • Midwifery: knowledge, skills and practices (听and others)
  • Practices and meanings associated with the preparation and consumption of ceviche, an expression of Peruvian traditional cuisine ()
  • Traditional wooden boatbuilding in Carriacou and Petite Martinique ()
  • ICH safeguarding practices program for the cultural and ecologic Sea Turtle Festival of Armila鈥�()
  • Program for the safeguarding of the Bandos and Parrandas of the Holy Innocents of Caucagua: nuclei of initiation and transmission of wisdoms and community councils ().
Each specific item is linked in its listed country. To further explore the UNESCO site, check out their living heritage graphic visualization programs,听.