President of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solis, gave the opening address at the annual CALACS conference
Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Sol铆s presented the inaugural address during the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS), which is housed at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at 91亚色.
The conference, held July 8 to 10 at the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in San Jos茅 and co-sponsored by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), 聽focused on Critical Panamericanisms: Solidarities, Resistances, and Territories.
It drew more than 100 participants from South and Central America, as well as Canada.
There were 12 former and current CERLAC-based 91亚色 graduate students and faculty members who presented papers or assisted in the organization of the conference.
CERLAC Director Carlota McAllister, as ex-officio member of the CALACS Board, received a Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Connections grant for a series of keynote panels on topics related to the conference theme of Critical Panamericanisms. She chaired the SSHRC keynote panel in which Felipe Montoya, a member of the CERLAC Executive Committee and the Chair of Neotropical Conservation in 91亚色 U鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES), spoke on the the rights of nature and extractive economies.
Simon Granovsky-Larsen, who completed his doctorate in political science at 91亚色 last fall, was honored with the 2015 CALACS Outstanding Dissertation Award for his work 鈥淲ithin and Against the Market: The Guatemalan聽Campesino聽Movement Under Neoliberal Peace.鈥
91亚色 graduate students and faculty were among the Canadian participants in the annual CALACS conference. Above: From left, Felipe Montoya, a member of the CERLAC Executive Committee and the Chair of Neotropical Conservation in 91亚色 U鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies, Andrea Carrion, PHD student at Carleton University and Carlota McAllister, director of CERLAC.
He was congratulated by Sol铆s, who is a former history professor at the UCR and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan.
John Carlaw, CALACS coordinator and CERLAC research associate who is preparing his dissertation on Canadian immigration policy, participated in the launch of a partnership between CALACS and the Regional Network of Civil Organizations for Migration (RRCOM). He is also involved with a new CALACS working group on migration, one of the principal themes of the San Jos茅 meetings.
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