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November 7, 2024

Applications are now available for the 2025 CLACS Field Research Grants.

Field Research Grants are intended to provide graduate students with early experience conducting hands-on field research in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the opportunity to develop independent research projects. These grants are travel to and in-person field research in Latin America and the Caribbean.

August 30, 2024

In collaboration with our partners in the Latin American Indigenous Studies Alliance (LAISA: University of Utah, UCLA, and Stanford) CLACS was proud to host the opening workshop for the LAISA Programa de Fellows en Pedagogías de Lenguas Indígenas. In early August, we welcomed instructors of Maya Yucateco (Maayat'aan), Tu’un Savi (Mixteco), Mam (Tuj Qyol) and Hñähñu.

May 31, 2024

May 2, 2024

Fourteen graduate students were selected to receive Travel grants to present at the upcoming conferences for the Latin American Studies Association  and the Caribbean Studies Assocation. Congratulations to all! 

https://clacs.berkeley.edu/opportunities/conference-travel-grants

October 20, 2023

Applications are now available for the 2024 CLACS Field Research Grants.

Field Research Grants support graduate student research about Latin America and the Caribbean at the pre-dissertation level. Funding is generously provided by the Tinker Foundation through the Field Research Collaborative Program, and matched by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

September 25, 2023

The third season of Sur-Urbano, a podcast about Latin American cities, has launched with two new episodes. The podcast is hosted by Isabel Peñaranda and produced by the Latin American Cities Working Group, and brings together scholars, activists and planning practitioners to discuss Latin American cities from different perspectives. 

August 25, 2023

Since its founding in 1956, the Center for Latin American Studies has served as a bridge between the Bay Area and Latin America. In the past year, CLAS has undertaken a number of initiatives reorienting its work to emphasize the plurality and the complex geopolitics of what constitutes “Latin America.” Does it include territories subjected to colonization by England, the Netherlands, and France as well as Spain and Portugal?

August 11, 2023

Graduate students, do you want to share your academic passions while developing vital teaching and public speaking skills? 

ORIAS is seeking graduate student speakers interested in joining the ORIAS Speakers Bureau. This is a funded professional development opportunity to learn how to share your research with young audiences.

June 16, 2023

This fall semester, the CLAS Visiting Writer will be Daniela Rossell. She will be teaching a special seminar, "An Experimental Writing Workshop or: How to Say Yes"

When: Fridays: Oct 27, Nov 3, Nov 10, and Nov 17 | 10:30 am a 1:30 pm | Fall Semester 2023

More information and registration here: https://clas.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/special-seminar-daniela-rossell

April 27, 2023

Julie Chávez Rodríguez, who graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Latin American Studies in 2000, was named to lead the 2024 Biden presidential campaign.

April 25, 2023

Congratulations to Charles Briggs and Amy Lerman on being named as new fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

April 13, 2023

Courses with Latin American Content, Fall 2023 

CLAS assembles a list of courses each semester that might be of interest to those studying Latin America. 

For more information on other courses, go to https://classes.berkeley.edu/

March 20, 2023

The Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies has some upcoming opportunities for graduate students and faculty in the coming year. Please share with your networks.
 
  1. 2023 Latin American Studies Association Congress Travel Grants: Travel stipends for Berkeley students to present at the 2023 LASA Congress - due April 1. 

November 16, 2022

We the staff of the Center for Latin American Studies stand in solidarity with the 48,000 academic student employees on strike for a cost-of-living pay increase and additional demands that the University of California administration should honor, including disability justice, support for working parents, job security, and free passes for public transportation passes, among others. We cannot overemphasize how important graduate student participation is and has been for the Center of Latin American Studies.

November 13, 2022

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide funding to graduate and undergraduate students to encourage the study of critical and less commonly taught foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. CLAS is offering FLAS awards to  students studying Spanish, Portuguese, Nahuatl, or other Latin American languages. Fellowships are offered for both academic year and summer programs. Applications are due Feb 6, 2023. 

November 1, 2022

Applications are now available for the 2023 CLAS Field Research Grants.

Field Research Grants support graduate student research about Latin America at the pre-dissertation level. Funding is generously provided by the Tinker Foundation through the Field Research Collaborative Program, and matched by the Center for Latin American Studies.

Applications are due at 11:59 pm on December 15, 2022.

October 25, 2022

Antonia Mardones Marshall, a 2022 CLAS Summer Dissertation Fellow, discusses the disparity between the overwhelming victory of the call for a new Constitution in Chile and the nearly as strong rejection of the initial draft put out by that country's constitutional convention.

Read "Chile’s Constitutional Process: What Went Wrong and How to Move Forward" on the CLAS Blog

October 17, 2022

Professor Rebecca Herman's new book, Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America, is now available in hard copy form from Oxford University Press and other outlets.

She spoke about the book in a conversation with Professor Margaret Chowning and Kyle Jackson on September 28.

October 11, 2022

Berkeley News

See the full press release in Berkeley News.

More than $12 million in new federal grants will drive dramatic expansion of UC Berkeley programs focused on international and regional studies, with benefits for both students and scholars, campus leaders announced today.

October 3, 2022

Applications are now open for funding for Research Working Groups.

Working groups comprised of UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and students who gather regularly to discuss and share research on topics of mutual interest. CLAS provides funds and other support for group meetings, events, and other activities. Groups can be formed based on any given country, region, topic, or discipline related to Latin America, and have covered a wide range of subject matter. See past groups from 2021-22 and 2020-21

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