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
All EventS
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