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-- //-- The University of Chicago Navigation Search About Us People Affiliated Faculty, Lecturers, and Postdocs Visiting Academics Staff Students & Alumni History Cuba License Contact Us Academic Programs BA Programs MA Programs Graduate Certificate Courses Fellowships & Funding Language Study Events Event Calendar Workshops Public Engagement Online Resources Multimedia Resources Newsletter Blog: Contextos Podcast Working Papers Videos Latin American Briefing Series CLAS Search About Us People Affiliated Faculty, Lecturers, and Postdocs Visiting Academics Staff Students & Alumni History Cuba License Contact Us Academic Programs BA Programs MA Programs Graduate Certificate Courses Fellowships & Funding Language Study Events Event Calendar Workshops Public Engagement Online Resources Multimedia Resources Newsletter Blog: Contextos Podcast Working Papers Videos Latin American Briefing Series previous next CLAS Faculty Receive Research Funding from CISSR Five CLAS-affiliated faculty are 2020-21 Faculty Fellows. Read more. Vistas 2019 CLAS is pleased to anounce the 2019 Vistas student photo exhibition. Read more. Latin Americanist Workshop Schedules The Latin American History Workshop (LAHW) and Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean (WLAC) have announced their schedules for the Winter quarter. Read more. Ann Chandler Tune's Path to Colombia We interview one of our BA students about what drew her to LACS as a major, her fieldwork this summer, and why she chose to focus on Colombia for her thesis. Read more. • • • • BA Programs Courses Student Funding Alumni Above all, CLAS is a place of gathering. Students, faculty, staff, and visiting scholars from throughout the Americas come here to teach, study, and expand their knowledge through our many programs and events. News & Announcements NOW OPEN: Tinker Visiting Professor Teaching Assistanship application CLAS is now accepting applications for the Tinker Visiting Professor Teaching Assistantship. Latin American Civilization TA Application is NOW OPEN! The Latin American Civilization teaching assistant application is now available for the 2020-21 academic year. Vistas Photo Exhibit/CLAS Open House-January 17 The Vistas Photo Exhibit has been mounted and we’re celebrating with an open house. Tinker Field Research Grant Information Session-January 28 NOW OPEN: CLAS Mellon Research Travel Fellowship application More News Events Calendar More Events Multimedia Contextos: Photographs of the Castillo: Close Looking at the Art and Architecture of Chichén Itzá Frida Plata, a student in the MA Program in the Humanities, reflects on photos of El Castillo and a visit to Chichén Itzá. EntreVistas: Decolonizing Anthropology Ryan Jobson, Anthropology, discusses what decolonization means within the academic sphere generally and within anthropology as a discipline. Contextos: Romance in Absentia: A Cultural History of Puerto Rican Cinema Found and Lost Pedro Noel Doreste, PhD Student, Cinema and Media Studies, and Dalina Aimée Perdomo, Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Photography on the "recovery" of Romance Tropical . Contextos: Land and Water: The Property Dilemma Underlying Mexico City’s Water Crisis Jack Mensick, MA student, CLAS, on rainwater harvesting in the periphery of Mexico City. Contextos: Slave Nostalgia: When the Plantation Doctor Tries to Read the Minds of the Enslaved Isabela Fraga, PhD Student in Romance Languages & Literatures, on death from nostalgia. EntreVistas: Participatory Security in Latin America Yanilda María González, School of Social Service Administration, discusses her research on participatory security in Buenos Aires, São Paulo, and Bogotá. Full conversation here . CLAS by the Numbers 50+ Years—CLAS was founded in 1968 62 Affiliated Faculty—across the University 97 Events in 2018-19—lectures, conferences, film screenings and more 61 Latin America-focused Courses in 2018-19—offered across disciplines -- Keep in Touch with CLAS Sign up for our emails Contact us with a question Request MA program information Submit a student update Submit an alumni update The University of Chicago Division of the Social Sciences -- clas@uchicago.edu Facebook Twitter LinkedIn iTunes RSS Blogger CLAS -- Support CLAS Katz Center for Mexican Studies UChicago Global © 2020 The University of Chicago...