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CERLAC Fellow Carlota McAllister just published a new book: The Good Road. A K’iche’ Revolutionary Theopolitics

The Good Road situates Guatemala’s early 1980s Indigenous uprising and the genocide that crushed it within a five-hundred-year history of Indigenous resistance to colonization and exploitation. Drawing on decades of archival and ethnographic research, Carlota McAllister traces the emergence of conciencia, a Spanish word meaning both "consciousness" and "conscience," in a Maya-K’iche’-speaking community called Chupol […]

CERLAC Fellow Anna Zalik published new article: North American Neomercantilism and Energy Sector Integration: Trade Disputes, Green Marketing, and the Continental Infrastructural Regime

Neomercantilismo norteamericano e integración del sector energético: disputas comerciales, mercadotecnia verde y el régimen infraestructural continental. Anna Zalik | Linn Biorklund | Aleida HernándeZ Cervantes Abstract: President Trump’s 2025 trade war placed North America’s continental energy and infrastruc-tural regime at the center of hemispheric disputes, from cusma renegotiation to intensified com-petition over regionally proximate energy […]

CERLAC Fellow Laura Levin has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), one of the country's highest honours for scholarly, artistic and scientific achievement.

The 2026 class includes two new fellows in the Academy of Arts and Humanities and one new member of the RSC College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.  Elected as fellows are Laura Levin, professor in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, and Deanne Williams, professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts […]

CERLAC Fellow Maria Figueredo published a new article: From Pedagogical Output to Cultural Archive: Multilingual Student Publishing and Humanities Knowledge

This article examines how multilingual student publishing can move beyond the status of temporary pedagogical output to become an emergent cultural archive and a form of humanities knowledge production. It focuses on the relationship between Acentos, an ongoing multilingual digital magazine publication at York University, and AP/SP/HUMA 4990, an advanced collaborative capstone course that periodically […]

2026 CALACS Conference

CERLAC Director Tameka Samuels-Jones with CALACS President Kristin Ciupa with CERLAC Graduate Students and other CALACS members at the 2026 CALACS Conference at the University of Calgary in Alberta.

George Brown Professor Natalie Wood wins CERLAC's Michael Baptista Essay Prize

George Brown Polytechnic professor and researcher Natalie Wood has been awarded the Michael Baptista Essay Prize by York University's Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC).   Wood, a professor in the Social Service Worker program and co-designer of the Black Futures Research Institute, was recently named the 2025 Baptista Prize winner for the essay, Tidal Relations: Pelagic Theories of the Black Atlantic.  The essay outlines ocean-based (pelagic) theories that demonstrate how Black scholars and artists analyze and […]

CERLAC Fellow Gillian McGillivray just published a new article: "Cane Farmers Versus Sugar Factories in Post-Emancipation Era Cuba and Brazil" 

"Cane Farmers Versus Sugar Factories in Post-Emancipation Era Cuba and Brazil"  In Plantation Knowledge: Agricultural Colonization, Exploitation, and Exchange Since 1500, edited by Nicholas B. Miller and Ulrike Lindner.  Here is a description of the book, and the link: The first book to examine plantations in their global variations through the history of knowledge. Few […]

3rd Annual Talawa Charity Gala

CERLAC had a wonderful time attending the 3rd Annual Talawa Charity Gala on Saturday Feb 7th, 2026 at the Belmont Event Space at the Delta Hotel in Toronto. Organized by the Talawa Community Health Centre and chaired by York University Professor Michelle Johnson, this annual Gala raises proceeds that goes towards the financial support and […]

CERLAC Visiting Researcher Bruno Biasetto has published an article in LARR

The Other Hand of God: The Impact of the 1988–1989 Drought in Argentina This article examines the adverse impact of the La Niña phenomenon in Argentina from 1988 to 1989 on the country’s economy, which led to a profound crisis. The severe drought significantly affected agricultural exports, exacerbating poverty and inflation. The resulting economic downturn […]

CERLAC Co-Director and Fellow Tameka Samuels-Jones becomes CALACS Vice-President

Dear CALACS Members, We hope this message finds you well. We are pleased to share several exciting updates with you: New Leadership 2026 CALACS Congress To read the full CALACS announcement click here.