Georgia Latin America in the Global South Project

Welcome to Latin America in the Global South

The Georgia Latin America in the Global South Project sponsors a wide variety of events, including lectures by distinguished scholars, conferences, seminars on student and faculty work-in-progress, and field exam roundtables. The Workshop also hosts large-scale community gatherings such as discussions with local immigrant rights activists and film screenings. (We serve great food at our events). Faculty work closely with graduate and undergraduate students to determine the Workshop's thematic focus, which has centered on Latin American religious and cultural history, transnational history, Latinos in the South, and the region's tumultuous history of capitalist development. Region, religion, and sexuality, along with race, class and gender, are key categories of analysis in our interdisciplinary discussions, which typically involve scholars from multiple departments across campus.

Please get in touch with our faculty or graduate students if you are interested in joining the Workshop.

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Questions? Email us at zapatavive@uga.edu.

Calendar

November 12, 2010
The Geography Department is sponsoring "Night Comes to Juárez: How the World's Most Important Industrial City Became its Deadliest" at 3:30p in 200C of the geography building. The speaker, Dr. Sarah Hill, is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Western Michigan University, and is a specialist in the study of garbage and recycling. She is currently at work on: "The Most Amazing Dump in the World," a history of waste management and recycling in Ciudad Juárez.