February 3, 2023 On January 21st, 2023, the Peruvian police raided the San Marcos University campus in Lima to arrest civil demonstrators who had arrived in the capital city from various regions of the country to demand a stop to the state violence. That violence has taken the lives of over fifty people in the […]
2022 Michael Baptista Essay Prizes Awarded The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 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, […]
CERLAC Fellow Yvonne Su was featured on the Conversation Canada – Don’t Call Me Resilient: To listed to the podcast click on the links: https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/the-unfairness-of-the-climate-crisis https://theconversation.com/the-unfairness-of-the-climate-crisis-192469 To read the story in The Conversation click here.
A sample of documents that represent “Black and Women’s Voices” is now available in digitized format from the Resource Centre collections of York’s Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). A sampling of “Indigenous Voices” will follow soon (https://vitacollections.ca/cerlacresourcecentre/search). The digitized materials form part of an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) project supported by […]
Glendon associate professor of history Gillian A. McGillivray delves into Latin America’s past through the lens of sugar. The result is her book Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959. Gillian McGillivray became fascinated by Latin American culture in high school after reading a novel by Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize-winning […]
CERLAC Student, Chevy Eugene, was selected as as one of the honourees for the UN 100 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) Under 40, Class of 2022, in the category of Politics and Governance.
From the Wreckage of Caribbean Migration, a New Kind of Beauty Four artists created stories of resilience from the traumatic histories of ancestors, on view at the Ford Foundation Gallery. By Aruna D’SouzaJune 15, 2022 It was curiosity about his own family’s fraught history of migration, from India to Trinidad, that persuaded Andil Gosine, a […]
The exhibition everything slackens in a wreck, curated by Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Professor Andil Gosine,will be at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York City. Running from June 1 to Aug. 20, the exhibit features seven York University community members, including exhibiting artist and BFA and MFA alumna Margaret Chen, artistry from […]
Written by Elaine Coburn, Director of the Centre for Feminist Research Organized by the CERLAC student caucus and hosted by York University doctoral students Natasha Sofia Martinez and Alex Moldovan. Malene Alleyne is a Jamaican human rights lawyer and founder of Freedom Imaginaries, an organization that uses human rights law to tackle legacies of slavery […]
In Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation, Andrea Davis imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of horizon, sea, and sound as a critique of nation-state discourses and formations, including multicultural citizenship, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and the […]