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Brazil’s presidential election
Tulia Falleti, Melissa Teixeira, and Marilene Felinto seated at a table addressing an audience.

CLALS director Tulia Falleti, CLALS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Marilene Felinto, and Penn historian Melissa Teixeira, discuss Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva’s defeat of right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil’s presidential election

Three experts share their thoughts on Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva’s defeat of right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, and what it means for Latin America’s largest democracy.

Kristen de Groot

Who, What, Why: Lucía Stavig
Lucia Stavig poses in front of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS)

Lucía Stavig, a Peruvian postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, works on healing through connection in the Andes.

 

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Lucía Stavig

    Lucía Stavig, a Peruvian postdoctoral fellow in anthropology, works on healing through connection in the Andes.

    Kristina García

    Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean
    Antonia M. Villarruel addresses the audience while Emily Hannum, Tulia Falleti, and LaShawn Jefferson look on. A sign behind the group reads: Perry World House.

    From left to right: Antonia M. Villarruel, Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at Penn Nursing, Emily Hannum, Professor of Sociology and Education and Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, Tulia Falleti, director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and LaShawn Jefferson, executive director of Perry World House, at the conference opening plenary.

    Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean

    This year’s Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean conference hosted by Perry World House focused on the theme of “Shared Narratives: Arts, Culture and Conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean.”

    Kristina García

    Domenic Vitiello’s ‘Sanctuary City’
    A group of people carrying plastic bags cross a dirt road towards a bus

    Migrants are loaded onto a bus for the U.S. Border Patrol detention center on the second day of the implementation of the “Credible Fear and Asylum Processing Interim Final Rule” on June 1, 2022 in La Joya, Texas. “A majority of people in this country believe that there is a quote, invasion at the southern border,” Vitiello says.  (Image: John Lamparski/NurPhoto via AP)

    Domenic Vitiello’s ‘Sanctuary City’

    In a book talk at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Domenic Vitiello discussed immigration and community.

    Kristina García

    Improving college access for Philadelphia’s Latinx community
    Emilio Parrado in a classroom gesturing as he speaks to the class. Two people are blurred behind in the background. The 22 students in Emilio Parrado’s Academically Based Community Service course on Latinx in the United States will mentor high schoolers who are part of the Centro de Cultura Arte Trabajo y Educación (CCATE) college-readiness program. Here Parrado describes the next steps to the class, with CCATE’s Holly Link and Obed Arango in the background.

    Improving college access for Philadelphia’s Latinx community

    A collaboration between Penn and the nonprofit Centro de Cultura Arte Trabajo y Educación aims to enhance a thriving post-secondary success program, create mentoring opportunities, and more.

    Michele W. Berger

    Latin American and Latinx studies becomes a center
    A woman in front of a microphone speaks to groups of seated and standing students

    Tulia Falleti addresses the crowd at the Center's fall almuerzo, or lunch. 

    Latin American and Latinx studies becomes a center

    With over 30 years of Latin American and Latinx Studies at Penn, the academic program was established as a center in July.

    Kristina García