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The Iyaric Initiative is launching its very own publication! This is an exciting new opportunity to share your work and gain experience in getting published.

Our initiative is seeking Black, Indigenous, and Caribbean themed academic and creative work from students and alumni. We encourage works that push boundaries and take risks as we are hoping to create an inclusive platform that elevates radical Black, Indigenous, and Caribbean voices. In that vein, we welcome proposals for academic papers, editorials, opinion pieces, […]

Caese Levo Send Off

In just a few short days, we will be losing—to Halifax—someone who has been absolutely essential to the development and success of the LAWG (Latin American Working Group) Collection for over 25 years. Quietly behind the scenes, for years and years, Caese Levo has volunteered hundreds of hours organizing the LAWG Collection within our Resource […]

CERLAC Announces the new core course for the CERLAC Diploma

ANTH 5300/6300: Convergences, Disparities, and Fault lines: Research in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (3.0 credits) / Summer 2022 Course Director: Dr. Honor Ford-Smith / Associate Director, CERLAC, and Associate Professor / Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change Days/Times: (not confirmed) May 25, 26, 27; June 1, 2, 3 / June 15, 16, 17, 21, […]

CERLAC Associate Fellow shares new book: MI MARÍA: SURVIVING THE STORM

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María pummeled Puerto Rico for over thirty hours. As brutal as the storm was, the real catastrophe was yet to come. Lack of government support left many in the archipelago without electricity, clean drinking water, food, and medical care for months. Years later, Puerto Rico is still recovering. Mi María: […]

CERLAC Fellow Michele Johnson is elected to The Royal Society of Canada

The York University faculty are among 89 new Fellows who have been elected by their peers for their outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement, and 51 new members of the RSC College. Five York University professors have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). They are: Philip Girard, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law […]

CERLAC Student and CERLAC Visiting Researcher Awarded CALACS 2021 Prizes

CALACS 2021 Dissertation Prize Winner It is with great pleasure that CALACS announces the recipient of the 2021 CALACS Outstanding Dissertation Award: Silvia Cristina Vasquez Olguin, Ph.D. The Social Production of Space and Nature in Peasant Communities of a Costa Rican Dry Forest 2020 York University Supervisor: Dr. Anna Zalik Dr. Vasquez Olguin’s outstanding dissertation […]

Fracisco Rico-Martinez, co-director of FCJ Refugee Centre, has passed away | The Star

Francisco Rico-Martinez, co-director of FCJ Refugee Centre, passed away on Friday. After coming to Canada from El Salvador with his wife and two children at the time, Francisco became committed to issues of social justice as a lawyer and economist. To read the full story in The Star, click here.

yFile: Four York professors receive awards from Government of Canada's New Frontiers in Research Fund

Four York University researchers have received research awards from the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)-Exploration stream. Professors Cristina Delgado Vintimilla (Faculty of Education and CERLAC Fellow), Sarah Flicker (Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change), Matthew Perras (Lassonde School of Engineering) and Dayna Scott (Osgoode Hall Law School) are the principal investigators […]

yFile: CERLAC Fellow Andrea Davis awarded prestigious 3-M National Teaching Fellowship

Central to Professor Andrea Davis’ transformational work as a teacher and academic is the belief that “racism is a refusal to really learn,” and the philosophy of “teaching as activism.” Her 20-year career embodies both and, now, she has been recognized with Canada’s most prestigious award for teaching, leadership and innovation. Davis, an associate professor of […]

yFile: CERLAC announces recipients of 2020 Michael Baptista Prize

York University PhD student Giovanni Hernández-Carranza (Department of Sociology) and undergraduate student Enzo Flores Montoya (Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics) were named the recipients of the 2020 Michael Baptista Essay Prize from the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). To read the full YFile story, click here.