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Events

     The Elliott School is pleased to announce that Professor Paula Alonso has agreed to take over leadership of the Initiative from July 1, following the retirement of Professor Diego Abente-Brun at the end of 2025. In the interim, the LACS Initiative continues to offer events and resources for students and faculty alike.

Events

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2025-2026

Fall 2025:

  • LACS Connections Mixer
  • Courts at the Crossroads: Executive Aggrandizement, Democratic Erosion, and Resilience
  • October Tertulia: Milei at the Mid-Term: Implications of Argentina’s 26-O Legislative Elections
  • November Tertulia: Guardians of the Amazon: The Power and Peril of Women Environmental Defenders

2024-2025

  • Addressing Democratic Erosion in the Western Hemisphere with U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States
  • Accountability Under Polarization in Mexico
  • September Tertulia: (Im)mobilities, Securitization and Asylum Seeking on the US-Mexican Border: Mapping Migrant Journeys in an Era of Heightened Deterrence
  • October Tertulia: Criminal Violence and Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Mexico ■ How Incremental Police Reform Can Save Lives: Lessons from Brazil
  • November Tertulia: Do You Have The Mandingo Family In Your Family Tree? Genealogy And Scholarship
  • “Can Peru’s Democracy Survive?”
  • February Tertulia: China’s economic influence on Latin America
  • March Tertulia: Party System Fragmentation in Latin America in Twenty-First Century
  • April Tertulia: Grassroots Politics: Bloc Voting and Demand-Making by Neighborhood Associations in Brazil

2023-2024

  • Criminal Violence and Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Mexico
  • Crime and Policing in Brazil
  • Strengthening Ties: A Reflection of 200 years of U.S.-Brazil Relations
  • Expanding the State or Drawing Citizens to its Core? Post Revolutionary Mexico’s Medical Infrastructure
  • Assessing Argentina's Election Results: Prospects for the Future
  • Ecuador at the Crossroads: From an Interim Government to an Uncertain Future

2022-2023

  • LAHSP Panel: Quo Vadis Venezuela?
  • Voices from Exile: Final Report of the Colombian Truth Commission
  • LAHSP Book Talk with Ambassador Jorge Heine (Active Non-Alignment and
  • Latin America: A Doctrine for the New Century)
  • Peru in Flames with Former President Francisico Sagasti
  • U.S.-Latin America Relations with Assistant Secretary of State Brian Nichols
  • LAHSP Book Talk with Visiting Scholar Marcel Anduiza (Astronomical
  • Commission and the History of North America in the Pacific World)
  • Closing the Fiscal Gap in Latin America