New book co-edited by Glendon Associate Professor Gillian McGillivray and CERLAC Fellow

The Entangled Labor Histories of Brazil and the United States - A new book co-edited by Glendon Associate Professor Gillian McGillivray tackles the ambiguous history of labour in Brazil and the United States, and will be featured during Glendon's Research Festival April 6. To find more information about the book click here.

CERLAC letter in response to the situation in Peru

February 3, 2023 On January 21st, 2023, the Peruvian police raided the San Marcos University campus in Lima to arrest civil demonstrators who had arrived in the capital city from various regions of the country to demand a stop to the state violence. That violence has taken the lives of over fifty people in the […]

CERLAC's 2022 Michael Baptista Essay Prizes Awarded

2022 Michael Baptista Essay Prizes Awarded  The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Michael Baptista Essay Prize for outstanding scholarly papers on topics of relevance to the area of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.   At the undergraduate level, […]

CERLAC Fellow Yvonne Su was featured on Don't Call Me Resilient

CERLAC Fellow Yvonne Su was featured on the Conversation Canada - Don't Call Me Resilient: To listed to the podcast click on the links: https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/the-unfairness-of-the-climate-crisis https://theconversation.com/the-unfairness-of-the-climate-crisis-192469 To read the story in The Conversation click here.

CERLAC Resource Centre hosts ‘Black and Women’s Voices’ digital collection

A sample of documents that represent “Black and Women’s Voices” is now available in digitized format from the Resource Centre collections of York’s Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). A sampling of “Indigenous Voices” will follow soon  (https://vitacollections.ca/cerlacresourcecentre/search). The digitized materials form part of an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) project supported by […]

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 […]

CERLAC Student becomes UN 100 Most Influential People of African Descent

CERLAC Student, Chevy Eugene, was selected as as one of the honourees for the UN 100 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) Under 40, Class of 2022, in the category of Politics and Governance. 

CERLAC Fellow Andil Gosine in featured in the New York Times

From the Wreckage of Caribbean Migration, a New Kind of Beauty Four artists created stories of resilience from the traumatic histories of ancestors, on view at the Ford Foundation Gallery. By Aruna D’SouzaJune 15, 2022 It was curiosity about his own family’s fraught history of migration, from India to Trinidad, that persuaded Andil Gosine, a […]

York professor and CERLAC Fellow New York exhibit displays reinventive spirit in times of crisis

The exhibition everything slackens in a wreck, curated by Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Professor Andil Gosine,will be at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York City. Running from June 1 to Aug. 20, the exhibit features seven York University community members, including exhibiting artist and BFA and MFA alumna Margaret Chen, artistry from […]

Climate Change in the Caribbean: The Role of Capital in the Climate Crisis and the Movement for Climate Justice

Written by Elaine Coburn, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research Organized by the CERLAC student caucus and hosted by York University doctoral students Natasha Sofia Martinez and Alex Moldovan.  Malene Alleyne is a Jamaican human rights lawyer and founder of Freedom Imaginaries, an organization that uses human rights law to tackle legacies of slavery […]