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The Latin American and Caribbean Studies program in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington was established in 1992 and is committed to the advancement of scholarship and applied knowledge about Latin America and the Caribbean. LACS is committed to creating opportunities and activities that link students, faculty, staff, and community with broad currents of solidarity, scholarship, and action across the Americas. Our activities have been made possible, in part, by generous support from government resources, private foundations, alumni, community members and individuals like you. Your tax-deductible contribution to LACS is vital to our ability to continue to carry out our work.

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Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Box 353650
Seattle, Washington 98195
lasuw@uw.edu / 206.685.3435

Highlighted Project 2012-2013: B/ordering Violence: Boundaries, Indigeneity, and Gender in the Americas

In September 2012 we launched the UW Mellon Sawyer Seminar on B/ordering Violence: Boundaries, Indigeneity, and Gender in the Americas. Building upon the work of a multi-year, multidisciplinary collective, this year’s UW Sawyer Seminar undertakes an interdisciplinary exploration of Borderlands, understood as the contact zones, imagined geographies, and discourses that produce both order and violence.  We have brought impressive artists and scholars to campus from through out the U.S. and Peru to give excellent presentations about Borderlands.

These activities have been generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and co-sponsored by the Latin American & Caribbean Studies program, the Jackson School of International Studies, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, & Sexuality (WISER).