Program in Latin American Studies

PLAS Celebrates Class Day 2019

PLAS honors compelling undergraduate scholarship, supporting two awards that recognize stellar thesis work. The Stanley Stein Senior Thesis Prize honors those who focus on a Latin American or Caribbean topic. The Kenneth Maxwell Senior Thesis is awarded for the best thesis on a topic specifically related to Brazil.

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Cristina Freire, Princeton Art Museum.

Cultivating Solidarity: An Interview with Cristina Freire

By Isabela Muci,

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2019 VISAPUR Fellows

The Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) is once again hosting members of the academic and artistic communities of Puerto Rico as visitors at Princeton University in summer 2019.

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LAS 308 Mexico City: Geography, Politics and Everyday Life - Spring Break Trip

Over spring break, our class took an eight-day journey through Mexico City, generously funded by the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) and the Learning Across Borders program (LABs) here at Princeton.

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LAS 212 Latin American Soundscapes: Field Trip to New York City

On April 25th I took my students to New York City to experience its soundscapes (music, voice, silence, and "noise"). We were interested in issues of locality and belonging, as sounds often point to or uncover places that are not there.

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Radical Women: An Instersectional-Without-Separability Perspective

Watch video from the recent talk by Andrea Giunta.

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Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States

This exhibition presents more than fifty Mexican retablos, folk paintings dedicated to Christ, the Virgin Mary, or saints to commemorate a miraculous event.

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Wednesday, Jun 19, 2019

From the Field

Wednesday, Nov 7, 2018

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: PLAS is now featuring “From the Field” short essays on our website and Facebook page. Students and faculty are encouraged to submit a 500-800 word text, based on recent Latin American or Caribbean field research. Submit essays and questions to damaris@princeton.edu.

Read "From the Field" featured text by Peter Schmidt '20