Throughout the academic year, PLAS-sponsored and co-sponsored events enable the campus community to experience the Latin American world right here at Princeton. From lectures by some of the world's leading thinkers to arts programs that spark new inspiration and challenge old assumptions, each offering is unique. Yet taken together, they foster a vibrant, ever-evolving dialogue about the region.
Upcoming Events
Yana Stainova | Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela
Oct 5, 2022, 12:00 pm
Location
216 Burr Hall (PU students, faculty and special guests only)
Speakers
- Yana StainovaAffiliationAssistant Professor of Anthropology, McMaster University
- Discussant: João Biehl, Chair of Anthropology, Princeton University
Jason De León | Soldiers and Kings: Inside the World of Human Smuggling
Oct 11, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
219 Burr Hall (open to the public)
Speakers
- Jason De LeónAffiliationUndocumented Migration Project; Anthropology, Chicana/o and Central American Studies, UCLA
- Discussants: Agustín Fuentes, and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Princeton University
Emily A. Maguire | The Caribbean Through a Science Fiction Lens
Oct 26, 2022, 12:00 pm
Location
216 Burr Hall (open to students, faculty and specially invited guests)
Speaker
Emily A. Maguire
Affiliation
Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University
PLAS Graduate Works-in-Progress | María José Urzúa, Politics
Oct 27, 2022, 12:00 pm
Location
216 Burr Hall
Speaker
María José Urzúa, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Politics, Princeton University
Mari Carmen Ramírez & Josh T. Franco | Latinx Archives in Context
Nov 1, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
216 Burr Hall (PU students, faculty and special guests only)
Speakers
- Mari Carmen Ramírez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art, International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Josh T. Franco, National Collector, Archives of American Art
- Moderator: Agustín Díez Fischer, Centro de Estudios Espigas (EAyP, UNSAM) / Fundación Espigas; PLAS Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton University
Anna Deeny Morales | On Writing an Opera about Family Separation at the US-Mexico Border
Nov 16, 2022, 12:00 pm
Location
216 Burr Hall
Speakers
- Anna Deeny Morales, Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown University
- Discussant: Mariana Bono, Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University
Leopoldo Maler | A Talk About Theater and Performance in the 60s and 70s
Nov 30, 2022, 12:00 pm
Location
216 Burr Hall
Speakers
- Leopoldo Maler, Artist
- Agustín Díez Fischer, Centro de Estudios Espigas (EAyP, UNSAM) / Fundación Espigas; PLAS Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton University
Co-Sponsored Events
SPO | Between Rap and Medicine: A Conversation with PJ Sin Suela
Oct 3, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
216 Burr Hall (open to PU students, faculty and staff)
Speaker
PJ Sin Suela, Doctor and one of Puerto Rico’s most exciting rappers
History | The Anti-Slavery Moment: Capitalism, Democracy, and Abolition in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic
Oct 7, 2022
Location
211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom Webinar
Effron Center for the Study of America | Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
Oct 25, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne Lobby and Upper Hyphen
Caribbean Studies | Panel II – (An)archiving the Caribbean: Matters, Methods, Meanings
Oct 31, 2022, 5:00 pm
Location
East Pyne 010 (masks required)
Speakers
- Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, University of Miami
- Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, St. Catherine’s University
- Katerina González Seligmann, University of Connecticut
- Discussant: Rachel Price, Princeton University
Caribbean Studies | Panel III – Self-Writing in the Caribbean: An “I” for an “Eye”
Nov 15, 2022, 5:00 pm
Location
East Pyne 010 (masks required)
Speakers
- Paloma Duong, MIT
- Ana Rodríguez Navas, Loyola University Chicago
- Discussant: Rubén Gallo, Princeton University
Related Events
Carl A. Fields Center | Conversation Panel into “Latin American Indigeneity”
Oct 3, 2022, 5:00 pm
Location
Carl A Fields Center, Room 104
Coup or No Coup? A Post-Presidential Election Debate
Oct 5, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
A71 Louis A. Simpson
Speakers
- Laura Carvalho, Leading Brazilian Economist and Public Intellectual
- Silvio Almeida, Professor of Law and Philosophy, Mackenzie Presbyterian University
SPO | The Boquitas Pintadas Club film screening of 'Destello Bravío'
Oct 7, 2022, 7:00 pm
Location
East Pyne 010
Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment | RACE EMPIRE ENVIRONMENT
Oct 25, 2022, 12:00 pm
Location
Betts Auditorium
