Captured in the Cordillera Blanca in the Northern Andes of Peru by undergraduate student Gregory Strine,  "A Day in the Life", named Honorable Mention in the People category of the 2015 International Photography Exhibition

	Ryan Crumley conducting research in Peru, 2014.

The second Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA), organized in conjunction with the fourth Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STLILLA 2018) brings together instructors, practitioners, activists, indigenous leaders, scholars and learners who study indigenous languages and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean. 

The Office of International Affairs is offering two awards as part of the upcoming University Engagement Recognition Awards. Ohio State faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to apply for the Distinguished International Engagement Award ($3,000) and the Emerging International Engagement Award ($1,000). Applications are due February 28th and more information about the application process can be found here.

The Stanford University Center for Latin American Studies and the Stanford University Libraries are offering library access grants for faculty from qualified U.S. Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and community colleges to conduct research relating to Latin America using Stanford University Libraries. The Stanford University Library System is one of the largest academic and research libraries in North America, and the Latin American collection is one of the most comprehensive in the country. A sampling of the primary sources available in Special Collections can be found listed  here.

Application Deadline: February 15, 2018

For more information, visit: https://clas.stanford.edu/educators/community-college/library-access-grants

The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) has released the list of Summer 2018 offerings for the intensive study of Portuguese, Haitian Creole, and indigenous Latin American languages. Please visit the CLASP website for more information about courses available this summer! 

All graduate students conducting research abroad this summer are encouraged to apply for the Global Gateway Graduate Student Research Abroad Grant.

Funded by the Office of International Affairs, the Graduate School and the Council of Graduate Students, the grant encourages and promotes the professional and academic development of graduate student researchers at Ohio State by providing financial support allowing students to undertake thesis or dissertation research abroad.

For more information about the Global Gateway Grant, contact  Liz Koss or visit the  Council of Graduate Students website.

On  Monday, February 12th at 12:45 pm , filmmaker Alexandra Cuesta will be screening a selection of her award-winning short films at the Gateway Theater House #4. Alexandra Cuesta's work combines experimental film traditions and documentary practices. She commences from the public sphere and explores poetic and subjective representations of reality. Social structures, instances of displacement, and cultural diasporas, are some of the recurring concerns present in her work. 

This event is sponsored by The Global Mobility Project at Ohio State and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

The University of New Mexico Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) and the University Libraries are pleased to invite applications for the Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar travel award. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 31, 2017 at 5:00 pm (MT).

Attached is the Call for Applications. For more information and to apply, go to http://laii.unm.edu/funding/greenleaf-visiting-library-scholar-funding.html.

The 8th Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Social Sciences ( CLACSO) will take place in Buenos Aires, November 19-23, 2018. CLACSO is the first international forum on critical thinking and will offer over 500 accommodation and travel grants for participants. Abstracts may be submitted in any of 36 thematic areas in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. 

General registration closes April 12th, 2018 and selections for individual, group, or institutional lectures at the open panel discussion will be released beginning June 12, 2018.

The Office of International Affairs is seeking applications for a scholarship that supports graduate and professional students in international research or travel. The deadline to apply for the Sonkin-Bergman-Wasserman Families' Scholarship is Friday, February 23.

The Sonkin-Bergman-Wasserman Families' Scholarship for International Understanding and Peace provides one or more awards for deserving graduate and professional students active in research or study that contributes to the pursuit of international understanding and peace. Students focused on international problems from any department or field are encouraged to apply.

For more information about the application, visit: https://oia.osu.edu/grants-and-scholarships/graduates/137-sonkin-bergman-wasserman-families-scholarship.html

The Brazilian Graduate Students & Scholars Conference (BRASCON) will be held at Ohio State on June 23 and 24th. Those interested in presenting either a talk or a poster are welcome to submit abstracts through February 15, 2018. More information is available at http://www.brasconference.org/submission/

Each year, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies holds a competition for Ohio State faculty and students to apply for research grants and scholarship funds. The deadline for all applications is 5 p.m. on  Wednesday, February 28, 2018 .

Applications for Faculty Research and Seed Grants and Graduate Student Research Grants must be for projects related to the study of national security in a global context.  In recent years the center has funded several dozen faculty and graduate student research projects with grants for travel, seminars, conferences, interviews, experiments, surveys, library costs, and more.

The Mershon Center has also established International Security Scholarships for Undergraduate Theses and Study Abroad to support undergraduates whose professional career plans lie in the field of international security and who would benefit doing research for an undergraduate thesis or studying in a foreign country.