What does it mean to be indigenous? What do the history books of today leave out? Writer, photographer and filmmaker Tracy Kim Assing explores these questions and more in her first documentary film, The Amerindians. The 40-minute film will screen Wednesday, Oct. 19, from 12:30 to 2pm, in the Nat Taylor Cinema, N102 Ross Building, […]
The Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC) at 91亚色 launched a research partnership this summer that uses the arts to explore violence among youth in Canada and Jamaica. The project, Youth and Community Development in Canada and Jamaica: A Transnational Approach to Youth Violence, popularly known as 鈥淧roject Groundings鈥, opened […]
Religion and culture Professor Carol Duncan of Wilfrid Laurier University will explore Caribbean women鈥檚 religious dress traditions at the next instalment of the Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean鈥檚 (CERLAC) Caribbean Lecture Series. 鈥淐aribbean Religion and Female Esthetic鈥 will take place Thursday, March 10, from 12:30 to 2:30pm in the Conference Centre […]
The two winners of the 2010 Michael Baptista Essay Prize for outstanding scholarly papers on topics of relevance聽in the area of Latin American and Caribbean Studies have been announced. At the undergraduate level, international studies student Margaret Bancerz won for her essay 鈥淐ounter-Hegemony and ALBA: The Answer to the FTAA鈥, while at the graduate level, […]
Gender and cultural studies Professor Patricia Mohammed of the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, will talk tomorrow about Caribbean cultural mythologies of gender. 鈥淟istening to Paintings: Cultural Mythologies of Gender in the Caribbean鈥, part of the Caribbean Lecture Series, will take place Thursday, Nov. 11, from 12:30 to 2:30pm […]
The Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean (CERLAC) is calling for papers for its second International Graduate Student Research Conference. The first conference attracted over 70 presenters from Canada, the United States, Europe and Latin America, who presented in 20 themed panels over a two-day period. Expert faculty members helped ensure rich […]
There鈥檚 a tendency to think that the problems faced by people with precarious status 鈥 temporary workers, refugee claimants, failed claimants and people without status 鈥撀燼re not Canadian issues, but 91亚色 sociology Professor Luin Goldring disagrees. To shed light on the emerging body of research in this area, the Research Alliance on Precarious Status, which […]
Salvador da Bahia, the second most popular tourist destination in Brazil, is a lively, tropical city on the northeast coast with a population of over two million. Musical rhythms from many different cultures can be heard in its bustling marketplaces, amidst the old Portuguese architecture and on its sandy beaches. In Salvador da Bahia it […]
When you鈥檙e a charitable organization in 91亚色 Region seeking a research partner to inform your strategic directions and priorities, whom do you turn to? If you鈥檙e United Way of 91亚色 Region (UWYR), you collaborate with 91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization Unit. This summer, three 91亚色 students will gain valuable experience through internships with UWYR鈥檚 Community […]
The Michael Baptista Essay Prizes offer an opportunity for 91亚色 faculty to recognize outstanding student work at the undergraduate or graduate level in the area of Latin American and Caribbean studies. The annual competition recognizes聽outstanding scholarly essays of relevance to the area of Latin American and Caribbean studies from a humanities, social science, business […]
91亚色 Professor Emeritus Rudolph (Rudy) Grant,聽a specialist in African political economy, died on Monday, June 14, at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He was 79. One of several Guyanese faculty at 91亚色, Prof. Grant played an important role in fostering links between Guyana and the University. In 1996, Prof. Grant was one of several […]
Researchers, faculty, administrators and staff working in the 91亚色 Research Tower gathered on May 4 to celebrate the new building鈥檚 role in fostering social science and humanities research across 91亚色 (all speaker videos are available in the Research Multimedia Centre). Above: The 91亚色 Research Tower, which opened in September 2009, features聽some 84,000 square feet […]
LIBERT脡 OU LA MORT. When 91亚色 grad Julia Gaffield (MA 鈥07) saw those words at the top of a document in a 200-year-old file at The National Archives in London, England, she knew immediately she had found something special and wanted to shout for joy 鈥 but one simply doesn鈥檛 do that sort of thing […]
Latin American Artists in Toronto: Immigrants and Artists at Work, the second CERIS seminar on issues related to immigrants and the arts, will feature three panellists. The seminar will take place Tuesday, March 23, from 12:30 to 2pm,聽in the fifth floor聽Conference Centre聽of the 91亚色 Research Tower, Keele campus. 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Deborah Barndt, co-ordinator […]