Captured in the Diamantina Mountains of Lencois, Brazil by undergraduate student Rachel Tomasic,  "On Top of the World", was named Honorable Mention in the Places category of the 2015 International Photography Exhibition

The second Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA),  will take place October 25-28, 2018 at Ohio State. 

Proposals are now being accepted for individual presentations and group panels related to one of eight thematic tracks. The deadline to submit proposals has been extended to  March 31, 2018. 

More information about the thematic tracks and application process can be found at:  https://clas.osu.edu/ilcla/call-papers-eng

Join the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for a  Quechua Language class and Andean Music Ensemble class Open House. The Open House will take place on Thursday, March 22nd from 4:30 to 5:30 pm in 145 Hagerty Hall and light refreshments will be provided. The agenda for the Open House can be found below.

Agenda:

4:30 - 4:45: Tour of the Quechua language and Andean culture mini-stands

4:45 - 5:00: Quechua language "mini lesson"

5:00 - 5:15: Learn more about Andean & Amazonian Minor and student funding opportunities

5:15 - 5:30: Learn more about Andean Music Ensemble class

The Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of History are pleased to announce that on March 23rd, from 3:00 - 4:30 pm, Dr. Gilbert Joseph will be presenting a talk on "The Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule during Mexico's Long Twentieth Century" at 165 Thompson Library. More information about Dr. Joseph's work and this upcoming event can be found here.

The Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Comparative Studies and Center for Latin American Studies presents: 

" Transfeminism: A Conversation with Sayak Valencia"   on Friday March 23, 2018, 12:50 - 1:30 PM in 100 Campbell Hall (refreshments provided)

with an evening lecture on " Gore Capitalism: Necroscopies and Narcoaesthetics in the Contemporary Visual Regime" at 4:00 PM in 010 Page Hall. 

Sayak Valencia is a transfeminist philosopher, essayist, and performance artist, with a doctorate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.  Coordinator of the Program of Cultural Studies in the Department of Cultural Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico. She is the author of Gore Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018).

The Department of Classics is pleased to announce the 30th Annual Thomas E. Leontis and Anna P. Leontis Memorial Lecture in Modern Greek Studies. On Thursday, March 29th at 3:00 pm in the Interfaith and Reflection Room (Ohio State Union), Esther da Costa Meyer will be giving a lecture on "Found in Translation: Neoclassicism in Havana." 

This lecture examines the rich complexity of Cuba's borrowings from Greece, particularly in Havana, and the ways in which neoclassicism molded the architecture and the urbanism of the city from the 1820s to the 1950s.

Saturday, March 24

8:30 - 10:30 AM

Mendenhall Lab, room 100

The Midwest Slavic Conference will open with a plenary panel on global migration, which will host five scholars who will discuss historical and contemporary topics in human mobility from the perspective of five world regions.

Panelists include: Dr. Jeffrey Cohen (Ohio State), Steven Lee (Unviersity of California Berkeley), Eleanor Paynter (Ohio State), Sunnie Rucker-Chang (University of Cincinnati), Johanna Sellman (Ohio State); moderated by Tara Zahra (University of Chicago)

Co-sponsored by the Center for African Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, the East Asian Studies Center, and the Middle East Studies Center

The Center for Latin American Studies is excited to announce new less commonly taught language course offerings for Autumn 2018, including:

• Yucatec Maya
• Haitian Creole
• Portuguese
• Quechua

Full List of Latin American Course Offerings