Campus to host Latino Awareness Week

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The Latin American and Latino Studies Program and the Organization of Latin American Students will co-sponsor this year Wake Forest’s first-ever Latino Awareness Week from March 19th through March 22nd, with special events designed to spread knowledge as to the challenges and problems faced by the Latino community worldwide held each day throughout the week. [...] Read more »

What is Hispanic Transatlantic Studies?

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The Department of Romance Languages and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at Wake Forest University will host Dr. Jose María Rodríguez García, Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University, on February 24th for a lecture on the emerging field of Hispanic Transatlantic Studies. Dr. Garcia will discuss the development of the field [...] Read more »

The legacy of U.S. policies in Nicaragua

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The Latin American and Latino Studies Program at Wake Forest University will host Mr. Paul Dix and Ms. Pam Fitzpatrick for a discussion on the effects of the U.S. policy in Nicaragua. The financial support received by Nicaragua’s rebel groups during the 1980s from the U.S. had catastrophic and lasting consequences on the country’s civilian [...] Read more »

Students begin southward journey

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Officials at the University of Diego Portales have been working closely with Wake Forest University’s Center for International Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies Program to prepare for the arrival seventeen Wake Forest students and one Wake Forest faculty member in Santiago, Chile. The delegation will be the second group of Wake Forest students [...] Read more »