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, […]
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ELIN Core Faculty Member Receives Funding For Inclusive Research Initiatives
El Instituto’s core faculty member, Emma Amador, receives JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Research initiative funding for research project: Bright Futures: Antonia Pantoja and the Practice of Ethnic Studies in US History. Read more in UConn Today article.
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 […]
“Faces, Masks, Bodies: Contemporary Cuban Writing, Art, and Performance”
Organized by Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Jacqueline Loss, and Inileidys Hernández. See details below for upcoming events and to register for online attendance. UConn Co-Sponsors: UConn Humanities Institute; El Instituto; Eyzaguirre; ELIN Fire Fund; Spanish (Literatures, Cultures, & Languages); Journalism; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Africana Studies; Art and Art History; Arts and Human Rights Research […]
GLC Receives CT Humanities Award
By Yale’s newsletter July 22, 2022 New Haven, Connecticut – The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University has been award a $30,000 grant from Connecticut Humanities to enable them to develop a series of working groups for Connecticut teachers to study and develop curriculum and resources on Black and Latino […]
Instituto Affiliate Scott Wallace Publishes Nat Geo Article about Murders in the Amazon
The article titled, “I knew the men murdered in the Amazon—and their alleged killer,” can be found on the National Geographic website.
New Instituto MA student publishes demographic and human development studies
Luis Palomino, in-coming student in the MA in International Studies with a concentration in Latina/o and Latin American Studies, is co-author of two recent scholarly publications in Perú. One article, “Determinantes de la evolución del número de casos y muertes por COVID-19 en el Perú: movilidad, geografía y desarrollo económico,” tracks changes over time in […]
The Political Empowerment of Women in Colombia
Congratulation to Laura Bedoya in graduating and pursuing her education! Read her article today on the Harvard website, titled “The Political Empowerment of Women in Colombia: Towards Gender Equality.”
Professor Charles Venator-Santiago named to the national Scholarly Advising Committee of the National Museum of the American Latino
Professor Venator joins 17 other leading scholars of the Latino experience on the inaugural Scholarly Advising Committee of the National Museum of the American Latino . You can read further news on the CT public website.