Eduardo S. Brondizio received an unexpected phone call May 3 as he landed in the small town of Tefe, in the western Brazilian Amazon, to continue field research: He had been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Read more
Geography Professor Dr. Patricia de Toledo Basile and CLACS Graduate Assistant Erin Brown are traveling to the World Social Forum in Mexico City! This semester, Dr. de Toledo Basile taught a course titled “Solidarity Economies in Latin America” where graduate and undergraduate students learned about solidarity initiatives throughout the region. Indiana University have worked in collaboration with students from the University of Virginia as well as the Universidad Federal de Paraná in Brasil to create several podcast episodes about these initiatives and will be presenting their work at the World Social Forum. The presentation will be Tuesday May 3rd at 11:30am ETS. You are invited to attend the session using this Zoom link, To learn more about this session and other WSF events, visit the World Social Forum’s website.
We wish to congratulate and recognize our 2022 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Recipients.
| Awardee Name | Degree | Program of Study | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Pugh | PhD | Linguistics | Maya |
| Erin Brown | MA | Latin American/Caribbean Studies | Haitian Creole |
| Abe Kassis | BA | Spanish and Portuguese; Linguistics | Portuguese |
| Hector Figeroa | PhD | Ecology and Evoluntionary Biology | Maya |
| Rachel Garza | PhD | Spanish and Portuguese | Portuguese |
| Miguel Roman | PhD | Spanish and Portuguese | Portuguese |
| Shelby Bruun | MA | Spanish and Portuguese | Portuguese |
| Lia Castro Sauer | BS | Animal Behavior | Portuguese |
HISP-P135/P491 Intensive Portuguese/Elementary Portuguese for Graduate Students
Indiana University Bloomington Online via Zoom
Summer II June 20 – July 29, 2022
Days and Times: MWF 1:50PM-3:05PM US Eastern Standard Time via
Zoom, TR taught asynchronously
Class open to students in the Big Ten, BTAA BIG TEN share course
Course Description:
This section of P135/491 meets synchronously three times a week (Mondays Wednesday and Fridays, from 1:50pm to 3:05pm US Eastern time), and asynchronously twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays). The synchronous interactions will be done through Zoom.iu.edu (Syllabus will include information on how to login to class meetings). The Asynchronous interactions will be completed through Canvas. This course is an accelerated treatment of material covered in both P100 and P150 designed for highly motivated students and students with previous language training on another Romance language. May be used as an elective for the Spanish major. Emphasis on oral communication with grammar and vocabulary taught in context. The cultures of Brazil and the Portuguese-speaking world will be presented using interactive activities, songs videos, discussions, and short readings. Credit given for only one of the two classes.
Alberto Varon, associate professor of English and director of the Latino Studies Program in the College of Arts of Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has been awarded a $215,000 grant by the Mellon Foundation to support a New Directions Fellowship, which are designed to assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who seek to acquire systematic training. Click here for more information.
CLACS is pleased to announce that Dr. Solimar Otero’s book, Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Religious Culture has won the 2021 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions.
Learn more about some of the fascinating research and community outreach that Keitlyn Alcántara, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, has been doing with her project on “Food and Resistance in Ancient and Contemporary Tlaxcala,” supported by a Wenner-Gren Engaged Anthropology Grant:
http://blog.wennergren.org/2021/11/eag-keitlyn-alcantara/
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies would like to congratulate Dr. John McDowell in his retirement after a 46-year career in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. He also served as CLACS’ Interim Director in 1998. Dr. McDowell arrived at Indiana University in 1975 after studying Folklore at the University of Texas. His deep appreciation for Latin America spans from speech play and verbal art among Chicano children to indigeneity in the Andean region. McDowell says that connecting with students was essential to his time at IU. He loved teaching undergraduate students in Chicano Folklore and sharing his passion for Latin American language with graduate students. He also played an essential role in bringing the Quechua language program to the university. McDowell hopes that the future of Latin American and Caribbean Studies will focus on minority cultures and languages because they both bring deeper understanding to the cultural and social aspects of the region. We deeply thank Dr. John McDowell for his work and helping the center become what it is today.
Congratulations to the photographers of this year’s winning submission and runner up submission!! CLACS would also like to sincerely thank the other participants for sharing their images and making the task of the judges so difficult.
Both photographers will receive a 12×16 professionally framed print, and everyone will be able to see copies of all the winning images from this year and years past in our growing gallery at the CLACS offices in the HLS building.
Winner
Photographer: Erin Brown
Title: Altamira
Details: The idyllic landscape of the Colombian coffee region (Filandia, Colombia)
Honorable mention
Photographer: Parker Floyd
Title: The Face in the Desert
Details: taken in the Atacama Desert (Chile) in 2017
CLACS is pleased to announce that Quetzil Castañeda, co-editor with Naomi Leite and Kathleen Adams of The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward M. Bruner and Beyond (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019) received a book prize in November 2020. At their annual meeting, The Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (American Anthropological Association) awarded the volume the Edward M. Bruner Prize for second or subsequent book. The prize committee said, “Leite, Castaneda and Adams’s volume is a beautiful retrospective of the enduring importance of Ed Bruner’s work and legacy in our field, and we have no doubt that it will be used as a central historical, theoretical, and teaching text by many.” https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498516341/The-Ethnography-of-Tourism-Edward-Bruner-and-Beyond