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Book Launch: Atusparia
APRIL 28, 2026 7 PM | SKYLIGHT ROOM GRADUATE CENTER CUNY, 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK CITY. Gabriela Wiener in conversation with Ángeles Donoso Macaya, and Fátima Vélez Atusparia (2024) tells the story of a leftist militant who ends up imprisoned in a high-security facility in the Amazon after becoming a victim of lawfare.The protagonist…
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Book Launch: Caught in the Current
APRIL 27, 2026 6:30 PM | ROOM 9205 GRADUATE CENTER CUNY, 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK CITY. The book tells an unfamiliar story: Mexico trying—and spectacularly failing—to control emigration to the United States. Across four decades, Mexican officials imposed moratoriums, launched “stay-at-home” campaigns, clashed violently with their own citizens at the border, and experimented with…
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Migration as Punishment: Transimperial Grammars of Displacement in the Atlantic World
APRIL 13, 2026 6:00 PM | SKYLIGHT ROOM GRADUATE CENTER CUNY, 365 FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK CITY. This presentation examines penal reform and colonial expansion in the nineteenth-century Atlantic through two cases: deportations from prisons in Germany to Brazil and transportation from an English Reformatory to Natal (today’s South Africa). Drawing on archives from three…
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Event: Slavery Database
APRIL 16, 2026 6:00 PM | ROOM 9205/06 GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY – 365 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK NY 10016 Join us in this event where CLACLS’ Executive Director, Laird Bergad will present his most recent data collection enterprise. Bergad will be joined by Herman Bennett, Executive Officer and Distinguished Professor of Black, Race, and Ethnic…
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Call for Applications: Latino Data Project Fellowship 2025-2026
The deadline of this fellowship has passed. The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies is pleased to offer Latino Data Project Fellowships for the 202 ‐ 2026 Academic Year in the amount of $4,000 each. Fellows will join a long list of graduate authors who have produced original reports for the Latino Data…
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