CERLAC Fellow Gillian McGillivray publishes a new book: Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba 1868-1959

Glendon associate professor of history Gillian A. McGillivray delves into Latin America’s past through the lens of sugar. The result is her book Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959. Gillian McGillivray became fascinated by Latin American culture in high school after reading a novel by Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize-winning […]

yFile: Michael Baptista Lecture explores rapid urban growth in Caribbean and Latin America

York University’s Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) presents the Michael Baptista Lecture 2021-2022: Urban Spatial Justice and Human Security in the Caribbean and Latin America on Nov. 30. In this first Michael Baptista forum for 2021-22, scholars will place experiences from various cities in conversation as they consider potential policy, […]

CERLAC Grad Student, Luis Najera publishes new book - The Wolfpack

The Millennial Mobsters Who Brought Chaos and the Cartels to the Canadian Underworld Author Peter Edwards and Luis Najera Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards introduces a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival in Canada […]

The 2020-2021 Michael Baptista lecture series: Fly Me to the Moon: Imagining a Future Beyond Extraction

York University's Centre for Research on Latin American and the Caribbean (CERLAC) presents its 2020-2021 Michael Baptista lecture series: Fly Me to the Moon: Imagining a Future Beyond Extraction on November 11, 2020.  The lecture will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. via zoom. Fly Me to the Moon: Imagining a Future Beyond Extraction: […]

York graduate Gonzalo de Villa appointed Archbishop

York graduate Gonzalo de Villa appointed Archbishop July 15, 2020 On July 9, 2020, the Vatican announced that Gonzalo de Villa, who in 1988 completed a Masters Degree in Social and Political Thought (SPT) at York University, has been appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala— historically the oldest of the two Ecclesiastical Provinces in Guatemala.  While at […]

Statement from the Executive Committee of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean in Solidarity with Black students, faculty, staff, and community members

Statement from the Executive Committee of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean in Solidarity with Black students, faculty, staff, and community members Anti-racism is central to CERLAC’s mission. The research CERLAC promotes has long been concerned with systemic racism in Latin America and the Caribbean, and its manifestations of discrimination and […]

York University's 'C4' Capstone Classroom Project, led by CERLAC Fellow Danielle Robinson, wins prestigious international award

York University's 'C4' Capstone Classroom Project, led by CERLAC Fellow Danielle Robinson, wins prestigious international award A York University project that brings a diversity of students from different disciplines together to work on real-life problems has received an international award from Airbus and the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC). Through the Cross-Campus Capstone Classroom (C4) […]

New CERLAC Director Appointment

We are delighted to announce that Professor Danielle Robinson has been appointed CERLAC Director starting July 1. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Dance in the School of Arts, Media, Performance, and Design and is cross-appointed to the Graduate Programs in Theatre and Performance Studies as well as Communication and Culture. She […]

CERLAC Fellow Anna Zalik and CERLAC Associate Fellow Adrienne Johnson publish a new article: Extraction, entanglements and (im)materialities: Reflections on the methods and methodologies of natural resource industries fieldwork. 

CERLAC Fellow Anna Zalik and CERLAC Associate Fellow Adrienne Johnson publish a new article: Extraction, entanglements and (im)materialities: Reflections on the methods and methodologies of natural resource industries fieldwork. Abstract This multi-authored collection of papers examines the complex realities of research on natural resource industries, including the messy entanglements of extraction, materiality, and everyday social […]

2020 Michael Baptista Lecture: A brutal glimpse of migrant reality

2020 Michael Baptista Lecture: A brutal glimpse of migrant reality by Luis Horacio Nájera For those who missed the opportunity to attend the 2020 Michael Baptista Lecture and are wondering how it was, the best words to describe the event are: brutally honest. For those gathered at the Toronto Reference Library, the Baptista Lecture offered […]