Television Dramas and the Global Village: Storytelling through Race and Gender Paperback – April 3, 2023 We are delighted about the affordable 2023 paperback edition of this global television book. It is now more ideal for university course adoption and faculty acquisition. This book discusses the role of television drama series on a global scale, […]
Author: Vasquez, Kimberly
Disconnections and Connections: Human Rights Versus Democracy; from Principles Toward Policies; National Within International Law
Contributed by Ángel R. Oquendo Through Thin and Thick: From Human-Rights Principles to Politics Across the Americas and Beyond (Cambridge University Press) (2022) Hopefully, this note will move you, readers of La Voz, to a conversation with me and among yourselves. It will react against an anecdote about Spanish writer Francisco Umbral. A television show […]
Update on the Puerto Rican Studies Initiative for Community Engagement and Public Policy
Contributed by Charles R. Venator-Santiago The Puerto Rican Studies Initiative for Community Engagement and Public Policy (PRSI) is a research initiative seeking to document and support Puerto Ricans’ vital economic, intellectual, and cultural contributions to Connecticut and to provide research-based support for the development of public policies addressing the needs of Puerto Ricans in the State […]
Contemporary Cuban Art In and Out of Crisis
Contributed by Jacqueline Loss Spanish PhD student, Inileidys Hernández, sent a letter to me and other faculty expressing the social and psychological weight that the July 2021 unprecedented protests in Cuba had on her, her family, and the many members of our UConn community whose lives were linked to the crises on the island. Her […]
Writing Latina Biography at El Instituto: The Life and Work of Antonia Pantoja
Contributed by Emma Amador Over the past ten years I have been researching and writing about the life and work of Dr. Antonia Pantoja, Black Puerto Rican Civil Rights activist, scholar, and educator whose work changed the world. While writing my first book, The Politics of Care: Puerto Ricans, Citizenship, and Migration after 1917 on […]
UConn Stamford Professor, Human Rights Filmmaker Oscar Guerra filming 2nd Documentary
Emmy Award-Winning UConn Professor Takes on Zero Tolerance, Family Separation with Second PBS Frontline Documentary You can read more in the article from UConn Today.
State turns to CLAS faculty for expertise on Black and Latino history
In 2020, Connecticut became the first state in the nation to require all high schools to offer a course on Black, Puerto Rican, and Latino studies. Congratulations to CLAS faculty in transforming Connecticut K-12 Curricula through The Black and Latino History Project (BLHP): Fiona Vernal Anne Gebelein Jason Oliver Chang Avinoam Patt Noga Shemer […]
Welcome from the Director
Hello, everyone! I’m Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann; also known as KGS (they or she pronouns). I’m the new Interim Director of El Instituto, and I have been truly lucky to be in the process of getting to know the faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff of our Instituto community so far. For those of you […]
Upcoming Spring 2023 Course Offerings
Below is our pamphlet for our Spring 2023 courses.
UConn Students Travel to the U.S./Mexico Border
Contributed by Anne Gebelein Students Travel to the U.S./Mexico Border to Learn about Collective Action for Social and Immigrant Justice From May 19-May 29th, 10 students joined Professor Anne Gebelein at the border to learn more about the network of activist groups that organize to support the rights of both immigrants and border residents. Tucson […]