CLAS News

Filter Posts

10 Posts available
Community Events
Featured News
News

“Reflejos”: Read the Inaugural Issue Now

Reflejos features two types of scholarship: research summaries (e.g., brief synopses of recent research experiences, initial findings from a new research project or conclusions…

April 24, 2026

Community Events
Featured News
News

“Economic Development”: CLAS Colloquium

In this exciting event, the worlds of theory and practice will come together in respectful engagement on the critical issue of economic development in Latin America. As the…

April 22, 2026

Community Events
Featured News
News

Undergraduate Thesis Presentation

Presenters include: Juan Camilo Acosta Gutiérrez, “Artificial Intelligence in Credit Scoring and Agricultural Credit to Small Producers in Colombia”; Andrés Celis, “…

April 21, 2026

Academic Events
Featured News
News

ProPELAC Student Showcase: LARS

This session of LARS is sponsored by CLAS’s Program on the Political Economy of Latin America and the Caribbean. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP.…

April 20, 2026

Academic Events
Featured News
News

“Politics and Markets: Campaign Finance Reform, Favoritism in Public Procurement”: LARS

University of Virginia doctoral candidate and SFS predoctoral fellow Beatriz Silva da Costa will present her research on “Politics and Markets: Campaign Finance Reform,…

March 22, 2026

Community Events
Featured News
News

“Elections and Democracy in the Americas”

In the final months of 2025, and in 2026, a set of critical elections are taking place in Latin America. These contests raise a range of fascinating, complex and significant…

March 18, 2026

Academic Events
Community Events
Featured News

A Conversation With Ambassador Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti

The Ambassador Series is designed to provide the CLAS and Georgetown University communities with an opportunity to meet and have a conversation with the region’s ambassadors…

February 21, 2026

Academic Events
Featured News
News

“The Amazon at a Crossroads: Confronting Today’s Challenges”: LARS

Georgetown University department of anthropology adjunct professor Liliana Duica Amaya will present her research on “The Amazon at a Crossroads: Confronting Today’s.…

February 12, 2026

Community Events
Featured News
News

“Environment and Sustainability in the Americas”: CLAS Colloquium

The Center for Latin American Studies’ “CLAS Colloquium” series focuses on central issues and challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean by foregrounding the…

February 5, 2026

Academic Events
Featured News
News

“Disparities in Genetic Cancer Risk Assessment in Latinas”: LARS

Georgetown School of Medicine Professor Alejandra Hurtado de Mendoza will present her research on “Disparities in Genetic Cancer Risk Assessment in Latinas.” Lunch will be…

January 31, 2026