YOUNG AMAUTAS OF THE AMERICAS Youth Summer Program of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) Theme: Sport, Culture and Education in Latin America and the Caribbean York University, July 27-31/2015 The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) invites youth from the GTA and beyond to its […]
CERLAC (the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University) solicits applications to a scholarship fund intended to support the research of PhD students whose work is of relevance to Caribbean Studies. The Grace and David Taylor Graduate Scholarship in Caribbean Studies Application deadline: April 1, 2015 Description: The Grace and […]
CERLAC invites applications for The Paavo and Aino Lukkari Award & Fellowship 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]