Latin American music will be performed by UMass professors Estela Olevsky and Pauline Stark. Panelists will include renowned scholars and activists from Latin America, Europe, and the United States, including University faculty. The conference is co-sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Latin American Studies Consortium of New England, the UMass geosciences deapartment, and the center. The new Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies, which was approved by the University last summer, has evolved from the former Latin American Studies Program. With its name changed and its scope broadened, the center continues its participation in the Latin American Consortium of New England, which is funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education, and which also includes the University of Connecticut, Brown and Yale universities.
All events are free and open to the public.