Nomorebloodinmexico.com is a blog set up by CERLAC colleague Hepzibah Munoz Martinez (University of New Brunswick) focusing on the security crisis in Mexico. The blog started in March 2012, to promote a speaking tour that was hosted in Universities across Canada (including at York, under the auspices of CERLAC), entitled No More Blood: Struggles for Peace […]
CERLAC is pleased to announce the winner of the TLN Telelatino Award 2014 for an outstanding undergraduate work on the Hispanic experience in Canada. The winner of this year’s prize is Yonita Parkes. The title of her essay is “Salsa on St. Clair: Consumer Consumption and the Construction of Cultural Identity.” Parkes’ paper explores the […]
The Paavo and Aino Lukkari Human Rights Fund supports York graduate students engaged in research on human rights and social justice issues related to the situation of indigenous people and/or people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. CERLAC announces the call for applications for the Paavo and Aino Lukkari Human Rights Award(s) and […]
CERLAC Fellows Carl James and Andrea Davis (Interim Director of CERLAC), whose co-edited book, Jamaica in the Canadian Experience: A Multiculturalizing Presence, has been referenced in prior CERLAC News, feature together in an hour-long IDRC (International Development Research Centre) online video. The video, part of the "IDRC Lectures" series, captures the discussion between the co-editors […]
CERLAC is pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 Michael Baptista Essay Prize for outstanding scholarly papers on topics of relevance to the area of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. At the graduate level, Lisane Thirsk (Socio-Legal Studies) won for her paper: "Law and the Discursive Construction of Street Harassment as Violence in Mexico […]
On 25 October 2012, CERLAC Fellow Carl James and Director Andrea Davis attended a reception at the Jamaican Canadian Centre in Toronto to mark 50 years of bilateral relations between Canada and Jamaica. At that reception, the Prime Ministers of both Jamaica and Canada were presented with copies of James' and Davis' co-edited book, Jamaica […]
For CERLAC Fellow Jaime Llambías Wolff, the principal accomplishment of his new edited volume is that it offers us a means "to think about Latin America from a XXI Century perspective on a variety of subjects... I wanted to tackle some of the important challenges confronting the region, knowing at the same time that it […]
Prof. Eduardo Canel completed his term as Director of CERLAC on June 30, 2012. He served one year as Interim Director before taking on the full role in 2008. In those five years, he built well on the foundations inherited from his predecesors, very capably guiding the Centre through another challenging era of change. During […]
The list, CANADA-ALC, is intended to be an academic space on which to post information about articles, books, projects, talks, conferences, seminars, videos, etc., on any social science aspect of Canada's relations with countries in the region or with the region as a whole. It responds to a need expressed by participants in recent panels […]
CERLAC'S new Director: As of July 1 2012, CERLAC has a new Director – the first Caribbeanist scholar to assume the role in the Centre's 34-year history. Prof. Andrea Davis was confirmed by the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation (VPRI) and the Dean of LA&PS as incoming interim director in March 2012. […]