Princeton University Program in Latin American Studies

The Pace Center’s Lift As You Climb Volunteer & Leadership Conference on Saturday, September 14th is open to all students, local community members, faculty, and staff. Join the Pace Centr at Frist Campus Center for a day of sessions on community engagement, leadership, and social change.

Register here:
https://my.princeton.edu/home_login

PLAS Panel Discussion | Power and Resistance in the Americas: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

Monday, September 16, 5:00 - 6:30 pm
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Guest Speakers:
Jo-Marie Burt, Associate Professor, George Mason University; Past President, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

María Eugenia Ulfe, Senior Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)

Against different forms of violence, women are often at the forefront of movements resisting oppression and defending rights. In their search for justice in war crimes trials, women’s voices and narration are a critical part of the healing process for them as individuals but also for their communities, while also contributing to rewriting difficult pasts. With cases from Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, and other Latin American countries, this event is an invitation to think together from different disciplinary perspectives on issues related to resistance and power, women and territories, displacements and politics.

MODERATOR
Javier Guerrero, Professor, Princeton University; President, Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

This event is open to the public.

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2024/jo-marie-burt-mar%C3%ADa-eugenia-ulfe-power-and-resistance-americas-transdisciplinary

Princeton University students, faculty, visiting scholars and staff are invited to join us for our Fall 2024 Lecture Series kick-off event taking place tomorrow, Tuesday, September 10 at 12 PM in 216 Burr Hall with Professor Alejandro Portes.

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2024/alejandro-portes-book-talk-emerging-global-cities-origins-and-significance

SAVE THE DATES!

PLAS Fall 2024 Events - Part I

Learn more via our website:
https://plas.princeton.edu/news-events/events

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (LASA) 2025

About LASA 2025
Poner el cuerpo en Latinx América

This iteration of the LASA Congress sets out to put the body on the line. To place the body center-stage in order to reveal its weight, relevance, and meaning. To recover its memory and materiality in our debates and agendas; to explore its dimensions at once individual and communal, biological and digital, contingent and situated. Because awakening our skin, opening our eyes and ears, setting our tongues in motion means reading ourselves, understanding ourselves as other(s), and rejecting the petrification of a single way of feeling and thinking.

Learn more/apply:
https://lasaweb.org/en/lasa2025/

Yesterday, August 22, 2024, the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) hosted an important virtual panel discussion on the current elections in Venezuela titled "Elecciones en Venezuela: Un proceso cuestionado, un futuro incierto". The panel was moderated by Javier Guerrero, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University and President of LASA.

View/listen here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/3XXKH6Wwy_s

Elecciones en Venezuela: Un proceso cuestionado, un futuro incierto Elecciones en Venezuela: Un proceso cuestionado, un futuro incierto

NEW FALL 2024 COURSE!

LAS 352 / SPA 369 / GSS 467 On Women and Witches: Latin American Writers, Artists, Activists

Learn more @ PLAS:
https://plas.princeton.edu/las-352-spa-369-gss-467-women-and-witches-latin-american-writers-artists-activists

@ Registrar:
https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/course-details?courseid=017385&term=1252

Congratulations to the Class of 2024!

A special congratulations also goes to the winners of the following PLAS Senior Thesis Prizes:

2024 STANLEY J. STEIN SENIOR THESIS PRIZE
This prize is awarded by PLAS each year to the student who writes the best senior thesis on a Latin American-related topic.

Michael Jacob Salama, History
FLUID IDENTITIES: THE SUBALTERN POLITICAL HYDROLOGY OF THE URUS OF LAKE POOPÓ

Thesis Adviser: Isadora Moura Mota, Assistant Professor of History

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2024 KENNETH MAXWELL SENIOR THESIS PRIZE
This prize is awarded by PLAS on behalf of the Firestone Library to the student who writes the best senior thesis related to Brazil.

Myla Eleanor Isenberg Wailoo, African American Studies
The Greatest Technologies are Ours: Carrying the Legacy of Quilombola Culture and Life through Contemporary Afrofuturist Brazilian Art

Thesis Adviser: Wallace Best, Professor of Religion and African American Studies

Learn more about this year's winners and prize nominees:
https://plas.princeton.edu/certificate-programs/undergraduate-certificate/senior-thesis-prizes

ALPA 2024 Senior Prize Award
Nominations are due by Friday, May 10, 2024

The Association of Latino Princeton Alumni (ALPA) is excited to announce the 1st ALPA Senior Prize Award. The ALPA Senior Prize is awarded annually to a graduating Senior from Princeton University who has demonstrated outstanding service to the Princeton University Latine community and the broader Latine community.

Nominations are open to all graduating seniors who have exhibited excellence in leadership skills and involvement in campus activities, positive impact on the community, research, or any other areas that enrich our campus environment and the Latine community. ALPA encourages faculty, staff, and fellow students to nominate deserving candidates. Self-nominations are welcome.

Nomination form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzvnx-shbTn_KKP5Y3xZIFVLdpeJyVaxp2-0SVDIawbjJRCg/viewform

Questions?
Miriam Lopez '83 ([email protected]) or Michael Katz '15 ([email protected])

Rutgers University Center for Latin American Studies Announces: Archival Internship for Graduate Students at the Archivo General de Puerto Rico and the Colección Puertorriqueña

The Rutgers/Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration (PRAC) Summer Graduate Intern Program offers participants unparalleled access to archival collections, as well as invaluable interactions with the esteemed staff at the Archivo General de Puerto Rico (AGPR) and the Colección Puertorriqueña (CPR) at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). Over the course of six weeks, interns will engage in a multifaceted experience, combining hands-on work at the AGPR with dedicated time for personal research endeavors.

Learn more and apply:
https://clas.rutgers.edu/projects-programs/puerto-rico-archival-collaboration/details/1181-archival-internship-for-graduate-students-at-the-archivo-general-de-puerto-rico-and-the-coleccion-puertorriquena

FREE TICKETS available for Princeton University Faculty & Staff to the Friday, May 3 Concert: Sinfonia!

Sinfonia concludes the season with a new work, The Broken Tree, by music major Toussaint Santicola Jones ’25, who has created his second symphonic work inspired by the art of Leonora Carrington. Two student musicians will take the stage as soloists with music exploring the beauty of two infrequently showcased instruments: the harp and the English horn. Dvořák’s final symphony also carries the title, “From the New World,” and is a tribute to the two years he spent living and teaching in the US.

Friday, May 3 at 7:30PM
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
Learn more:

Sinfonia Spring Concert - Department of Music at Princeton University Sinfonia concludes the season with a new work, The Broken Tree, by music major Toussaint Santicola Jones ’25, who has created his second symphonic work inspired by the art of ...

Chile 9/11 | HELL HAS NO LIMITS: JOSÉ DONOSO, 100 Years, A Laboratory of Writing

Guest speaker:
Cecilia García-Huidobro, Universidad Diego Portales

Tuesday, April 30, 2024
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
PLAS 3rd Floor Atrium, Burr Hall
Open to the public

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2024/chile-911-hell-has-no-limits-jos%C3%A9-donoso-100-years-laboratory-writing

Jazz Festival 2024 | Concert with Cuban Drummer, Dafnis Prieto

Saturday, April 13, 2024
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall (ticketed event)

Jazz at Princeton and the Program in Latin American Studies present the Creative Large Ensemble, directed by Darcy James Argue, with drummer/composer/MacArthur genius Dafnis Prieto.

RESERVE YOUR TICKETS:
$5 Students
2 free for Faculty & Staff only, additional tickets $5
$15 General Public

Learn more:
https://music.princeton.edu/event/jazz-creative-large-ensemble-2/

Join us for this open discussion on Wednesday, April 10 at 3:00 pm in East Pyne 010!

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2024/asa-cristina-laurell-health-reforms-latin-america

Ada Ferrer, historian and scholar in Latin American and Caribbean studies, appointed professor in the Department of History.

Board approves nine faculty appointments

The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of nine faculty members, including four full professors, one associate professor and four assistant professors.

Ada Ferrer, in history, specializes in Latin American history and Caribbean studies. She is joining the University as the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, effective July 1.

Ferrer comes to Princeton from New York University, where she has taught since 1995, most recently as the Julius, Roslyn, and Enid Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies. She was the director of NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies from 2009 to 2011. In 2023, she was a visiting scholar at Oxford University’s Wolfson College.

Her book “Cuba: An American History” won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and the PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers, among others. Her previous book, “Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution,” won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University; three different prizes — the Friedrich Katz Prize, the Wesley-Logan Prize, and the James Rawley Prize — from the American Historical Association; and many others, including an honorable mention for the PROSE Award. Her book “Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation and Revolution, 1868-1898” won the 2000 Berkshire Conference Book Prize for the best first book written by a woman historian in any field. Among her many other honors, she received a 2019 Guggenheim fellowship and was a 1992-93 Fulbright scholar in Spain.

Ferrer earned an A.B. from Vassar College, an M.A. from the University of Texas-Austin, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Learn more:
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2024/03/29/board-approves-nine-faculty-appointments

Don’t miss Anthropology’s commemorative lecture with Marisol de la Cadena on Thursday, April 4 @ 4:30 in 219 Aaron Burr Hall.

Marisol de la Cadena's field sites are cattle ranches and veterinary schools in Colombia. There she engages practices and relations between people, cows, and ‘things’ in general. Thinking at divergent bio/geo interfaces, de la Cadena is interested in capturing “the stuff” that makes life and death in conditions of dramatic ecological and political change as the country endures extreme droughts and floods and wants to transition between the violence of war to a condition of peace that might not be without violence.

In conversation with Anthropology Global South Visiting Scholar Munira Khayyat, Princeton University.

Learn more:
https://anthropology.princeton.edu/events/when-worlds-meet-conversation-contact-zones

Calling all Princeton Sophomores!

Join us for pizza and light refreshments at PLAS' Sophomore Open House:

Thursday, April 4
12:30-1:30pm
PLAS 3rd Floor Atrium, Burr Hall

Poetics of Trans/re/lation: Radical Reading, Radical Grammars

Wednesday, April 3, 12:00 pm
PLAS 3rd Floor Atrium, Burr Hall

This poetry reading is open to Princeton students, faculty, visiting scholars and staff.

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2024/daniel-borzutzky-rachel-galvin-10-poetics-transrelation-radical-reading-radical

Poetry In and Out of Translation: A Reading with Daniel Borzutzky and Rachel Galvin '10

Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 4:30 pm
PLAS 3rd Floor Atrium, Burr Hall

This poetry reading is open to the public.

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2024/poetry-and-out-translation-reading-daniel-borzutzky-and-rachel-galvin-10

JOIN US TOMORROW!

2024 Stanley J. Stein Lecture | "Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina"

Wednesday, March 27, 4:30 pm
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Open to the public. Reception to follow.

Keynote speaker:
Paulina L. Alberto, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History, Harvard University

This lecture honors the life and work of the Princeton Professor Stanley J. Stein (1920-2019), a visionary historian of Brazil and Latin America.

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2024/stanley-j-stein-annual-lecture-paulina-l-alberto-black-legend-many-lives-ra%C3%BAl-grigera

SAVE THE DATE | Stanley J. Stein Annual Lecture on Wednesday, March 27 at 4:30 pm in 219 Aaron Burr Hall

"Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina"

Keynote speaker:
Paulina L. Alberto, Professor of African and African American Studies and of History, Harvard University

This lecture honors the life and work of the Princeton Professor Stanley J. Stein (1920-2019), a visionary historian of Brazil and Latin America.

Open to the public. Reception to follow.

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2024/stanley-j-stein-annual-lecture-paulina-l-alberto-black-legend-many-lives-ra%C3%BAl-grigera

Students, faculty, visiting scholars and staff are invited to join us next Tuesday, March 19 at 12:00 pm for a lecture by historian and Distinguished Visiting Professor with the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Jeffrey L. Gould. See enclosed e-flyer or website for details.

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2024/jeffrey-l-gould-just-another-boss-autogestion-workers-control-and-fate-socialism-chile

PLAS has various student funding opportunities available:

- Dissertation Completion Writing Grants (deadline 3/11)
https://plas.princeton.edu/funding/graduate/plas-dissertation-writing-grants

- Paul E. Sigmund Scholars Awards (deadline 3/18)
https://plas.princeton.edu/funding/undergraduate/paul-e-sigmund-scholars

- Senior Thesis Research Funding (deadline 3/18)
https://plas.princeton.edu/funding/undergraduate/senior-thesis-research

Americans Abroad in the Seventeenth Century: People, Buildings, and the Space of Empire

Jesús Escobar, Northwestern University

Thursday, March 7 | 4:30pm
A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz (JRR)
Reception to follow 171 Simpson Weickart Atrium

Learn more:
https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/whats/events/americans-abroad-seventeenth-century-people-buildings-and-space-empire

TODAY! Tuesday, March 5 @ 12pm
216 Burr Hall

Students, faculty, visiting scholars and staff are invited to join us for this lecture with historian and PLAS Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Professor, Carlos Aguirre. See enclosed e-flyer or website for details.

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2024/carlos-aguirre-long-night-fidel-castro-intellectuals-discuss-cuban-revolution

Princeton University Library | Scholarly Panel, 'Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond'

Wednesday, March 6, 2024
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Chancellor Green Rotunda

Learn more/register:
https://libcal.princeton.edu/event/12080111

Students, faculty, visiting scholars and staff are invited to join us for this lecture next Tuesday, March 5 at 12pm! See enclosed e-flyer or website for details.

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2024/carlos-aguirre-long-night-fidel-castro-intellectuals-discuss-cuban-revolution

JOIN US TOMORROW!

This event is open to the public.

Miguel Centeno,
Musgrave Professor of Sociology; Executive Vice-Dean, School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), Princeton University

Agustin E. Ferraro,
Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Salamanca (Spain)

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/events/2024/miguel-centeno-agustin-e-ferraro-book-talk-state-and-nation-making-latin-america-and

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | PLAS SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH FUNDING!

The senior thesis is Princeton’s capstone undergraduate experience, allowing students to reflect on and demonstrate mastery developed over four years. PLAS travel funding supports rising seniors and seniors in the design and pursuit of on-the-ground research on Latin America and the Caribbean. Rising seniors must apply in the spring term through SAFE to conduct research during the summer preceding their senior year and seniors must apply in the fall term through SAFE to conduct research during intersession.

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/funding/undergraduate/senior-thesis-research

Deadline to apply is March 18, 2024

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | PLAS PAUL E. SIGMUND SCHOLARS AWARDS!

The Paul E. Sigmund Scholars Award is primarily for first- and second-year undergraduate students who wish to pursue a 4 to 8-week long field project or scientific research in Latin America or the Caribbean. Flexible by design, it affords an opportunity to bring the region into focus—whether through exploratory summer research, non-profit work, travel, or other activities. Ultimately, this can serve as a powerful foundation for future academic work, including the junior paper and senior thesis.

Learn more:
https://plas.princeton.edu/funding/undergraduate/paul-e-sigmund-scholars

Deadline to apply is March 18, 2024