The Bowdoin community recently held three days of events––including music, drama, lectures, discussions, and an art show––to honor a significant milestone: twenty-five years of the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLaS) Program.
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Many of the significant health disparities and inequities faced by Hispanic communities in the US are tied to what Margaret Boyle calls a long history of health injustice in the Hispanic world.
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Since publishing her groundbreaking book about Gabriel García Márquez's novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Professor Nadia Celis has been in demand.
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Bowdoin will be staging its first bilingual main season production next year, a reimaginingof the seventeenth-century Spanish comedia classic, Valor, Outrage, and Woman, by Ana Caro de Mallén. Auditions are coming up, and you don’t have to be bilingual to take part.
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A movie based on the research of Bowdoin faculty member Paula Cuellar Cuellar is among the highlights of a Latin American film festival that kicks off this week, which she is also helping to organize.
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Bowdoin has appointed a cohort of four accomplished scholars to new endowed faculty professorships honoring distinguished Black graduates of the College. These new positions, which are fully funded by donors, will focus on the interdisciplinary study of race, racism, and racial justice and across themes of environmental justice and belonging, citizenship, and freedom.
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Five faculty members have been promoted from the rank of associate to full professor based on their excellence in teaching, distinction in scholarly or artistic engagement, and service to the College.
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Twenty-one Bowdoin student teachers help stage a multilingual shadow puppet performance in front of local elementary school children. It’s a part of a program to promote the study of world languages and cultures in schools.
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Faculty member Barbara Sawhill ’81 recalls how her Bowdoin education sparked a love of Latin America and led her onto the path of rekindling a decades-old friendship.
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Research project explores how Salvadorean women were raped by rebel fighters as well as government security forces during the 1980s civil war—a fact not recognized by the Central American country’s official history.
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Join us to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies at Bowdoin College.
See the list of scheduled events—open to the entire college community, alumni, students, and friends.
The Americas are home to almost a billion people, speaking over 450 indigenous and European languages. The history and diversity of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latinx environments, cultures, and people continues impacting studies and policies on race, class, gender and human rights today.
The Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLaS) at Bowdoin fosters a deeper understanding of the diverse cultures and complex historical and contemporary relationships of Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Latinas and Latinos in the United States.
The Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (LACLaS) Program supports concerts, theme dinners, film screenings, symposia, service-learning projects, debates, and teach-ins organized by various student organizations, faculty, campus divisions, and neighborhood associations. Every semester speakers who are experts in a field related to the courses being offered—or who are directly involved with social, political, academic, or cultural activities in Latin America—are invited to campus.
Bowdoin alum Kathryn Leifheit ’12 links evictions with COVID deaths. Listen below!
Dr. Michele Reid-Vazquez hosts Dialogues in Afrolatinidad. Listen below or on Spotify!