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Latin American Film Festival 2024: Liberation
Join the Center for Latin American Studies, the SPPO Club, Columbus State Community College, and the City University of New York for the Autumn 2024 Latin American Film Festival. This year's theme…
CLAS Awards FLAS Fellowships for Summer 2024 and Academic Year 2024-25
The Center for Latin American Studies is proud to announce the results of its Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship competition for Summer 2024 and Academic Year 2024-25.…
CLAS Affiliate Dr. Jonathan Jacobs awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Uruguay
Jonathan Jacobs, associate professor of emerging infectious disease ecology in the Department of Plant Pathology, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, has been awarded a 2024…
CLAS awarded grant in collaborative project with the School of Music
David Hedgecoth (School of Music), Susan Powell (School of Music), and Scott Schwenter (CLAS/Spanish and Portuguese) have received a New Projects Grant from the ASC Larger Grants program. The…
CLAS awarded $8,000 grant from Ohio Hispanic Heritage Project
A multi-project proposal submitted by the Center for Latin American Studies has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Hispanic Heritage Project (OHHP) in the amount of $8,000.00. The…
Ohio State students and Columbus community experience Afro Diasporic dances
African rhythms and drum beats could be heard through the halls of Sullivant Hall on chilly winter Saturdays. In commemoration of Black History Month and as part of the outreach efforts of the…
CLAS Director delivers keynote at Diálogos XXI conference
CLAS Director and Professor of Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dr. Scott Schwenter delivered one of the keynote speaker addresses at Dialogos XXI,…
Comic artist Gus Arriola’s “Gordo” retrospective highlights Mexican culture
Gus Arriola, an iconic Mexican-American comic book artist and writer, is having his 40-year run of comics shown at the Billy Ireland Comic Museum through May 2024 . The retrospective exhibit…
Dr. Anna Babel named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
CLAS Affiliate Faculty and Professor of Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Dr. Anna Babel has been named the next Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Linguistic…