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, […]

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 […]

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 […]