UConn’s El Instituto (Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean and Latin American Studies)
Merging Latina/o and Latin American studies courses and faculty, El Instituto supports the development of hemispheric and Latina/o-centered perspectives on critical ethnic studies and world area studies.
Upcoming Events
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Oct
23
Wednesday Workshops: Julio Vezub “Maps, sketches, and strategies for invading the Argentinian desert: Francisco Host’s explorations in Salta, Neuquén and Chaco, 1871-1886” 12:15pm
Wednesday Workshops: Julio Vezub “Maps, sketches, and strategies for invading the Argentinian desert: Francisco Host’s explorations in Salta, Neuquén and Chaco, 1871-1886”
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Walter Childs Wood Hall
The History Department hosts Wednesday Workshops several times throughout the semester to further scholarly dialogue among graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars. In the form of a brownbag lunch, the speaker presents their research-in-progress and then engages in a Q&A with the audience.
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Oct
23
LECTURE: Women’s Health in Latine & Afro-American Communities 2:30pm
LECTURE: Women’s Health in Latine & Afro-American Communities
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024
02:30 PM
Student Union
Lecture: Women’s Health in Latine & Afro-American Communities with Dr. Martas, OB/GYN
Dr. Yvette Martas is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Willimantic, CT. She is a first-generation Puerto Rican from the South Bronx and has been in Obstetrics and Gynecology for 30 years. After graduating from Yale and receiving her medical education from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she trained in OB-GYN at NYU-Bellevue.
Dr. Martas will be teaching in the spring semester. Are you interested in women’s health? Come learn more about the course topic and her work in Willimantic and beyond. Dr. Martas will address health care issues and disparities experienced by women in the Latine and Afro American communities. Women in these communities experience less access to health care and a higher burden of diseases when compared to those of the white community.
LLAS 3998/WGSS 3998/AFRA 3898, spring course meets from 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm on Wednesdays and has no prerequisites.
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Oct
28
A conversation about the African National Congress (ANC), University of Fort Hare, and UCONN Archives Project, We Are Not Afraid, an interview-based documentary about music and resistance in Apartheid prisons, and the Liberation Sound Archives 4:00pm
A conversation about the African National Congress (ANC), University of Fort Hare, and UCONN Archives Project, We Are Not Afraid, an interview-based documentary about music and resistance in Apartheid prisons, and the Liberation Sound Archives
Monday, October 28th, 2024
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Homer Babbidge Library
Please join Global Affairs, History, HRI, IIREP, & POLS for a conversation about the African National Congress (ANC), University of Fort Hare, and UCONN Archives Project, We Are Not Afraid, an interview-based documentary about music and resistance in Apartheid prisons, and the Liberation Sound Archives!
October 28th, 4-5:30p.m., HBL Class of 1947 Room
FeaturingSinazo Mtshemla, Betsy Pittman, and Janie Cole
Moderated by Fiona Vernal
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Oct
29
“Humility in Practices of Transitional Justice: the case of Campo Algodonero, Mexico.” 3:30pm
“Humility in Practices of Transitional Justice: the case of Campo Algodonero, Mexico.”
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
03:30 PM
The Dodd Center for Human Rights
UConn’s El Instituto (Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies) awarded small seed grants to support faculty-led workshops, reading groups or other research, on any theme of relevance to Latine, Latin American or Caribbean studies in the academic year 2023. Please join us this fall semester in this 4 part series of events to hear about their research accomplishments. Light Refreshments Served. There is limited space, RSVP today!
2nd Event:
“Humility in Practices of Transitional Justice: the case of Campo Algodonero, Mexico,” by Dr. Robin Adèle Greeley
In 2009, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Mexican state to carry out a comprehensive program of reparations in the landmark case of Campo Algodonero. The Court found the Mexican state had failed to prevent the murders in 2001 of three young women in Ciudad Juárez. Part of a wave of femicides that continue to afflict women in Mexico, the Campo Algodonero murders sparked a pivotal turn in the Court’s rulings in cases of gender violence. As part of the reparations, the Court ordered the Mexican state to apologize and to build a memorial. Yet since its inauguration in 2011, the Campo Algodonero memorial has been a site not of public commemoration, but of vociferous contestation by the principal audience for which it was intended: the families of the murdered women. This talk explores why the seemingly humble State apology, delivered at the memorial site, was vehemently rejected by the victims’ families, and what this can tell us about the role of humility in practices of transitional justice.
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Nov
4
Wednesday Workshops: Jesse Olsavsky “Frederick Douglass and the Trajectories of Pan-Africanism, 1876-1945.” 12:15pm
Wednesday Workshops: Jesse Olsavsky “Frederick Douglass and the Trajectories of Pan-Africanism, 1876-1945.”
Monday, November 4th, 2024
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Walter Childs Wood Hall
The History Department hosts Wednesday Workshops several times throughout the semester to further scholarly dialogue among graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars. In the form of a brownbag lunch, the speaker presents their research-in-progress and then engages in a Q&A with the audience.