LACAS Events

LACAS BIENNIAL UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE

LACAS Events:

Café con LACAS: Café con LACAS is back every other Wednesday! Come to our LACAS Library to enjoy delicious coffee and great conversation with our faculty and LACAS students, learn about our program and get some free snacks. Everybody is welcome!

  • Date(s): Every other Wednesday*
  • Time: 1:30pm -2:30pm
  • Place: LT1111

*These are our upcoming Fall semester dates: September 27, October 11, October 25, November 8, November 29.

LACAS Open House: Join us to celebrate 50 years of LACAS at our Open House on October 13th from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM in UU111. This year's open house will be part of the Homecoming programming. Take advantage of the opportunity to network with current and past students as we reminisce about LACAS past and envision its future. We will have delightful food from local vendors, refreshments, music, giveaways, and more!

  • Date: October 13th
  • Time: 5 pm - 8 pm
  • Place: UU111

This Open House isn't just an event; it's a celebration of our past, present, and future. It's a testament to the enduring spirit of LACAS and the people who have made it what it is today.

  • Past LACAS Events

     2023

    • LACAS Field Trip to NYC: "No existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of María"  which highlights questions of environmental justice and ongoing colonialism (the first exhibit focused on Puerto Rican Art in a major museum in 50 years), and, in honor of women's history month, Repertorio Theatre's adaptation of Isabel Allende's Eva Luna, in Spanish with English supertitles.

    2022:

    • Pasados y Futuros: Una Historia de LACAS

    2019:

    • Café con LACAS (weekly event)
    • Screening of Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (speaker: Carole Boyce Davies)
    • Faculty/Graduate Student/Staff Potluck
    • Drug War Capitalism: Corporate Power, Capital Accumulation and U.S. Drug Enforcement Policy Making (Speaker: Horace Bartilow)
    • Taina Asili y la Banda Rebelde (Free Concert)
    •  ¡Retumba! Echoes of a Sacred Legacy! The Popping workshop: M.A.Z.E. (Movement Activates Zoedic Energy) (Speaker: Jorge "Pop Master Fabel" Pabon)

    2018:

    • Café con Leche (weekly event)
    • Lessons from El Salvador: The Crisis of Migration  (Speaker: Zulma Tobar of US - El Salvador Sister Cities & Bernardo Belloso, President of the Association for Rural Development of El Salvador, CRIPDES).
    • Fourth Biennial Undergraduate Research Conference: Activism of the Mind: Producing Knowledge of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Diasporas  (Speaker:  Xhercis Mendez) 

    2017:

    • Pura Belpré: A Puerto Rican Librarian in 1920s NYC (Speaker:  Gladys Jiménez-Muñoz)
    • LACAS Open House

    2016:

    • "Making Cuban Stars: Reflections on US-Cuban History and Migrations Through Baseball" (Speaker: Adrian Burgos)
    • “From Citizens to Natives: Tropical Politics of Depopulation at the  Panama Canal Zone” (Speaker: Marixa Lasso)
    • “An Island in the Modern World: On Coexistance in Hispaniola” (Speaker: Silvio Torres-Saillant)
    • "Remapping Chinese Medicine Overseas: The Case of Peru" (Speaker: Patricia Palma)
    • "La batalla de los Invisibles: Indocumentados vs. supermercados" - Film Screening (Speaker: Manuel de Alba)
    • "The Currency of Créolité in the Francophone Caribbean" (Speaker: Lydie Moudileno)
    • Third Biennial Undergraduate Research Conference (Speaker: Gladys Jimenez- Muños)
    • "From Amazons to Zombies: The Monstrous Caribbean" (Speaker: Persephone Braham)
    • "Housing is a Human Right! The Dignified Fight for Homes in Mexico City and Beyond" (Speaker: Luis Saracho, Union de vecionos damnificados 19 de septiembre and Mexico Solidarity Network)

    For more information about events from 2015 - 2004 please contact the department.