In this talk, Amanda M. Smith will draw on research from her book, Mapping the Amazon: Literary Geography after the Rubber Boom (Liverpool University Press, 2021), to address how 20th-century Latin American intellectuals from Amazonian countries reacted to the destructive effects instigated by literal and metaphorical maps of the region.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Haiti is a story about the continuing tragedy of Haiti: a story of America's attempt to impose western democratic values on a society steeped in profoundly distinct traditions and culture."
Duke University Center for International and Global Studies
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
This event will feature Alma Coefman, Renaissance, Baroque & Modern Flutes, Susan Klebanow, Harpsichord & Voice, Robbie Link, Viola da Gamba & Double Bass, and Kristin Trangsrud, Piano.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Join us for a presentation by Professor of Drama and Theater Director, Erin B. Mee, on the performance of Antigone in Manipur (NE India), followed by a collective reading of Sara Uribe's Antígona González (2012), which re-contextualizes Antigone in Tamaulipas, México, where Antigone must confront not the interdiction of a single burial but the systematic violence of enforced disappearances en masse.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
In this talk, Professor Yana Stainova will discuss her new book "Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela," based on 16 months of ethnographic research with musicians from Venezuela's classical music program El Sistema.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
In this session, Ryan Ludwig will discuss the importance of coffee in Latin America, how coffee is produced, and how Counter Culture Coffee and other roasters can practice environmental and social sustainability in the US and in Latin America.
Duke University Center for International and Global Studies
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Join us for a book launch of Andrés Fabián Henao Castro’s Antigone in the Americas: Democracy, Sexuality and Death in the Settler Colonial Present (New York: SUNY, 2021), which will be discussed by Comparative Literature Professor, Moira Fradinger.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
