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Announcements and Events

March 27, 2025

 

In this issue:

Dawg Day of Giving 2025

Faculty & Student Spotlight

Upcoming Events

Latin American Ethnobotanical Garden News

Award Opportunities

Course Offerings: Summer & Fall 2025

Ongoing Activities

 

DAWG DAY OF GIVING 2025

TODAY: Thursday, March 27

Give to LACSI and its Programs

#CallingAllDawgs!

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Dawg Day of Giving 2025 is here!

At LACSI, we ask you to please consider giving to the Institute or one of its most popular amd important programs:

  • The Weekly Language Conversation Tables
  • The Latin American Ethnobotanical Garden

Your support will be crucial to keep on our mission to promote research, education and service and outreach on Latin America, the Caribbean and U.S. Latino/a/es. 

Answer the call today, Thursday, March 27, 2025, from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m.!

LACSI Casa Amarilla (Yellow House). 2024

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute (LACSI)
Casa Amarilla / Casa Amarela / Q’ellu Wasi / Yellow House
Athens, Georgia  

Give to LACSI
Give to LACSI's Conversation Tables
Give to the Latin American Ethnobotanical Garden
 

FACULTY AND STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Dr. Pablo Lapegna receives Honorable Mention

Congratulations to Dr. Pablo Lapegna (Sociology and LACSI) and co-authors, Johana Kunin and Tomás Palmisano, for receiving the Honorable Mention for the Best Article Award by the Latin American Studies Association Environment section for “Between Regulation and Practice: Situated Pesticide Governance in Argentina” published in Studies in Comparative International Development (2024. vol. 59,2 288-312).

Dr. Pablo Lapegna (Sociology and LACSI)

LACSI Alumna Elyse Conley accepted in History Ph.D.

Kudos to Elyse Conley, 2024 LACSI Graduate Certificate and History M.A. alumna, for being accepted as a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Pennsylvania State University. Starting in the fall, Elyse will deepen her research on religion and gender in colonial Chile.

Can't wait to see what amazing things you do, Elyse! 

LACSI alumnus Elyse Conley - Profile Picture
 

UPCOMING EVENTS

Natural Watanabe: A Roundtable Discussion

Thursday, March 27, 2025 | 4:00 to 5:10 p.m.
113 Gilbert Hall

Natural Watanabe Roundtable. Flyer
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Local Festival

DREAMFest 2025

Saturday, March 29, 2025 | 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.
400 McKinley Dr. Athens, GA 30601

DREAMFest 2025. Flyer

Research Talk

Before the Wall:
Science and Environmental Governance
on the US-Mexico Border

Dr. Analiese Richard |UAM-Cuajimalpa, Mexico

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 | 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Pinnacle Room (Baldwin Hall 480)

Analiese Richard (UAM-Cuajimalpa, Mexico City)
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Join LACSI on April 5!

International Street Festival

Saturday, April 5, 2025 | 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.
College Square (Downtown Athens)

International Street Festival 2025. Flyer
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LATIN AMERICAN ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN NEWS

Advisory Board's First Meeting

LAEG Board Meeting. March 18, 2025. Image 1
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Members of the Latin American Ethnobotanical Garden's Advisory Board discuss plans and ideas at Casa Amarilla on March 18, 2025

On Tuesday, March 18, 2025, most members of the newly formed Latin American Ethnobotanical Garden's Advisory Board - a multidisciplinary group of scholars and residents of the Athens community - held a highly productive first meeting at LACSI's Casa Amarilla.

The Advisory Board will offer guidance and support to the work of Nunally Benzing, garden curator, and UGA Ecology Senior graduating intern, Sara Piña-Serrano, under co-management of the Institute for Native American Studies (INAS) and LACSI.

We cannot wait to share all the exciting news and activities - including the garden's renaming - that we are preparing for the coming year with you! 

Spring is in the Air!
Volunteer at the Ethnobotanical Garden

A message from LAEG Curator:

For the remainder of the semester, I will be in the garden on Tuesdays, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and Wednesdays 12:00  and 4:00 p.m.

Please feel free to swing by and I'll put you to work weeding, shoveling mulch and/or cutting things back... or we can just talk about plants.

If you are interested and can't make it during these times, reach out to me at Nunally.Benzing@uga.edu and we'll see what we can make work.

Nunally Benzing. LAEG Curator
 

AWARD OPPORTUNITIES

CLASP Call for Awards and Grant Applications

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CLASP Faculty Research/
Professional Development Grant

Application deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The CLASP Faculty Research/Professional Development Grant is intended to support research or professional development by US-based faculty at all ranks (including non-tenure-track) during the 2025 calendar year. Awards will be up to $1,000. Research should be conducted in (or about) Latin America (including the Caribbean).
 
Applicants must be employed at a CLASP member institution to be considered for this award.

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COURSE OFFERINGS:
SUMMER 2025 & FALL 2025

ECHD 4660/6660  

U.S. Latinx Mental Health: An Introduction
(Summer 2025)

Thursday | 9:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. | Hybrid

ECHD 4660/6660 - Flyer
 

ECHD 4660/6660  

U.S. Latinx Mental Health: An Introduction
(Fall 2025)

Tuesday/Thursday | 9:35 to 10:50 a.m. | Aderhold 411

ECHD 4660/6660 Fall 25- Flyer
 

ONGOING ACTIVITIES

LACSI
Weekly Language Conversation

Casa Amarilla | LACSI's Yellow House
Monday | 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Spring Semester

Spanish Conversation Spring 2025. Flyer

LACSI's Mesa de Español is back!

Come if you need to practice or brush up your Spanish.

Sessions are on Mondays from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., thru April 28, 2025.

For more information, please contact our facilitator, Mario Juárez (mj25877@uga.edu).

¡Nos vemos pronto!

Rimasunchis!
Quechua Conversation Table

Q'illu Wasicha | LACSI's Yellow House
Monday | 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Spring Semester

Quechua Conversation Spring 2025. Flyer

No previous experience
with Quechua ?

No problem!

Join us every Monday
from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
at Q'illu Wasicha
(LACSI's Yellow House. 290 S. Hull St.).

Contact Bethany Bateman McDonald
(batemabd@uga.edu) with questions
!

Latinx Student Support Group

Thursday | 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Spring Semester

Latinx Student Support Group. Flyer Spring 2025

Join the Latinx Student Support Group.

Sessions started on February 13.
Spots are limited on a first come, first serve basis.

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