Current News & Events

For a complete listing of events from the Consortium in Latin American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University, please visit our Consortium calendar.

Colombia-- The Presence of the Impossible:
Third film in this series Mon. Sept.15 at 7pm.(Franklin Center 240) "Silencing Justice" (The systematic violation of human rights) (more info)

WOLA-Duke Book Award Winner Announced
Francisco Goldman's "The Art of Political Murder" has won the first annual WOLA-Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. The author of the winning book, Francisco Goldman, will receive a $1,000 cash award and an invitation to the WOLA (Washington Office on Latin America) Benefit Gala and Human Rights Award event in September. He has been invited to give a reading at Duke in the fall semester. The book award is another cooperative venture between WOLA and Duke. Under an agreement signed in January, WOLA has donated its inactive archives dating back to the organization's founding to the Archive for Human Rights at Duke Libraries. Go to http://www.wola.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=viewp&id=747&Itemid=8 for the complete press release.

Thank You Tamera Marko!
For all of your incredible work as Outreach Coordinator for the UNC-Duke Consortium. (Tamera's accomplishments)

We Welcome Dennis Clements
(Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases and Senior Advisor, Global Health Institute) as the new CLACS director. Dennis begins the three-year appointment on July 1.