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CLAS Supports 2023 Ohio Latin Americanist Conference
The first Ohio Latin Americanist Conference (OLAC) was held at The Ohio State University in 2002, and every year since Ohio State's Center for Latin American Studies has played a pivotal…
January 8th: Political Polarization in Brazil
By: Ella Meyer, CLAS student intern, Spring 2023
On January 8th, 2023, supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed Brazil’s Praça dos Três Poderes, which houses the…
Latin American Research Highlight: Prof. Nora Bello
Statistical capacity building -- an Ohio State-Uruguay partnership
By: Ella Meyer, CLAS Student Intern, Spring 2023
Dr. Nora M. Bello, professor of statistics and systems modeling…
Portuguese Program Examines Pedagogical Practices
With significant contributions from CLAS Student Intern Zoey Wurgess
OSU's Department of Spanish and Portuguese (SPPO) is home to one of the strongest Portuguese language programs…
SOM & CLAS Partner for Exchanges with Brazil
The School of Music and Center for Latin American Studies have created an academic artistic partnership that will span the next two academic years in an effort to strengthen ties between Ohio…
Congratulations To Our Fall 2022 Whitten Scholarship Awardees!
Each semester the exceptional work and research that student curators undertake with the Kawsay Ukhunchay: Andean & Amazonian Indigenous Art & Cultural Artifacts Research Collection is…
Latin American Research Highlight: José Pérez
Many of us are familiar with the plight of Venezuelan refugees or remember the polemic 2016 impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. Some of us may have even considered how these events…
Featured FLAS Fellow: Sophia Lenhart
Sophia Lenhart is a 2022-2023 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Portuguese. Sophia was also a FLAS fellow in Academic Year 2021-22.
"I was an exchange student in Brazil twice, once in…
Featured FLAS Fellow: Anais Fernandez
Anais Fernandez is an Academic Year 2022-2023 undergraduate FLAS fellow studying Quechua at OSU. Anais was also a FLAS fellow in Summer 2022, when she studied intermediate-advanced Quechua in Peru…