Grad Students can soon apply for significant funding from LACC’s Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants Program awards. Tinker awards are designed to provide graduate students with funds for travel to and within any Spanish and Portuguese-speaking country in Latin America to conduct research and develop contacts with scholars and institutions in their fields of study. Stay tuned! Award info., details on the application process, and deadlines will be available on social media by late January.
LACC Distinguished Visiting Professor and former president of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solis, was the honored guest speaker at November's Penn-Biden Center luncheon. The event, designed for policy makers, US State Department leaders and congressional aides, was featured in the PBC's recent December newsletter.
In 2007, FIULACC experts Luis Guillermo Solis, former president of Costa Rica and current Distinguished Professor at LACC, and FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg co-authored the book The United States and Central America. In this video they discuss the last decade of Central American democratic governance and relations with the U.S. in a conversation prepared as part of LACC's regular tutorial series.
A conference and workshop on Exploring Cuba through Miami, Media and Technology for faculty from Minority-Serving Institutions and Community Colleges. Made possible by LACC's US Department of Education Title VI Grant. Co-sponsored by LACC, Cuban Research Institute, dLOC,FIU Libraries, Wolfsonian Museum, and the San Carlos Institute, Key West. By invitation. For information call (305) 348-2894.
Renowned Haitian artist Edouard Duval-Carrie closes the exhibit, Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, that has been on display since October of 2018 and was featured throughout Art Basel. Co-sponsored by LACC, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami-Dade County and the Funding Arts Network, among others. RSVP at the Frost Museum website https://frost.fiu.edu/exhibitions-events/events/2019/01/edouard-duval-carrie-lecture.html).
What domestic and international policy changes are in store for Brasil under the Bolsonaro administration? A Davos-style conversation moderated by Luis Guillermo Solis, former president of Costa Rica; featuring Patricia Campos Mello, Folha de SP; Barry Levitt, PIR professor at FIU and Nick Zimmerman, former White House NSC Director for Brazil and the Southern Cone. Part of LACC's Security and Governance Program of Excellence. Free and open to the public. RSVP and tickets at https://bit.ly/2RuH13
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