Bowdoin will be staging its first bilingual main season production next year, a reimaginingof the seventeenth-century Spanish 喜剧 经典, Valor, Outrage, and Woman, by Ana Caro de mallsamen. Auditions are coming up, and you don’t have to be bilingual to take part.
A movie based on the research of Bowdoin 教师 member Paula Cuellar Cuellar is among the highlights of a Latin American film festival that kicks off this week, which she is also helping to organize.
Bowdoin has appointed a cohort of four accomplished scholars to new endowed 教师 professorships honoring distinguished Black graduates of the College. 这些新职位, which are fully funded by donors, will focus on the interdisciplinary study of race, 种族歧视, and racial justice and across themes of environmental justice and belonging, 公民身份, 和自由.
Five 教师 members have been promoted from the rank of associate to full professor based on their excellence in teaching, distinction in scholarly or artistic engagement, and service to the College.
Twenty-one Bowdoin student teachers help stage a multilingual shadow puppet performance in front of local elementary school children. It’s a part of a program to promote the study of world languages and 文化 in schools.
教师 member Barbara Sawhill ’81 recalls how her Bowdoin education sparked a love of Latin America and led her onto the path of rekindling a decades-old friendship.
Research project explores how Salvadorean women were raped by rebel fighters as well as government security forces during the 1980s civil war—a fact not recognized by the Central American country’s official history.
Karla Lainez ’24 included a variety of voices and stories that matter to her personally when putting together the latest student-curated book display celebrating BIPOC themes and texts.
杰伊·索萨, assistant professor of 性别, 性, 和妇女研究, 性别, 性, 和妇女研究, interviewed Irina Popescu November 15, 2022, about her first year at Bowdoin College as an assistant professor of Latin American, 加勒比, 和拉丁研究.
Scholar of Latin American literature and culture Peter Elmore visits campus to talk about the decline of the Inca empire due to Spanish conquest and how those events have been portrayed throughout history.
The Americas are home to almost a billion people, speaking over 450 indigenous and European languages. The history and diversity of Latin American, 加勒比 and U.S. Latinx环境, 文化, and people continues impacting studies and policies on race, class, gender and human rights today.
拉丁美洲, 加勒比, 和拉丁研究 (LACLaS) at Bowdoin fosters a deeper understanding of the diverse 文化 and complex historical and contemporary relationships of Mexico, Central and South America, 加勒比海, and Latinas and Latinos in the United States.
An Immersive Experience
拉丁美洲, 加勒比, 和拉丁研究 (LACLaS) Program supports concerts, 主题晚宴, 电影放映, 座谈会, service-learning projects, 辩论, and teach-ins organized by various student organizations, 教师, 校园的分歧, and neighborhood associations. Every semester speakers who are experts in a field related to the courses being offered—or who are directly involved with social, 政治, 学术, or cultural activities in Latin America—are invited to campus.
Listen to NPR podcast with alumna Kathryn Leifheit linking evictions with COVID deaths