The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 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, the prize was shared between two honorees: […]
The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University (CERLAC) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 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, Jorge Villatoro (LA&PS) won for his paper: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
As former Director Eduardo Canel steps aside and Andrea Davis takes his place, slipping into Andrea's former shoes as Deputy Director is CERLAC Fellow Prof. Carlota McAllister (Anthropology). Carlota has already distinguished herself as a very active member of the Executive and Fundraising committees of CERLAC. Prof. Canel opines: "Carlota McAllister will be excellent as […]
York University, through CERLAC, is the lead partner in a 2.5-year Partnership Development Grant project that was awarded $200,000 in the November 2011 Social Sciences and Humanties Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) competition - part of the over $3 million granted to York-led projects in that round. The project, entitled "Developing a partnership on extractive […]