Maxwell School Events Calendar

Program on Latin America & the Caribbean Events

• Screening & Discussion | Salvador del Solar | Magallanes 10 Years After

  April 22, 2026, 12 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Salvador del Solar invites participants to consider how cinema can illuminate the long-term consequences of political violence and the enduring challenges justice in the region.

• Salvador del Solar | Elections Without Representation: Peru and the Limits of Democracy

  April 21, 2026, 3 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Join the former prime minister of Peru (2019) as he examines how in less than a decade, Peru has had eight presidents not through coups, but through the systematic weaponization of Congress.

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  April 10, 2026, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Spanish conversation skills!

• The Quinoa Bust: The Making and Unmaking of an Andean Miracle Crop

  April 02, 2026, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Maxwell Hall, 204

  Emma McDonell (Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga) traces the social, ecological, technological and political work that went into transforming a humble Andean grain into a development miracle crop.

• Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera | Cartels Inc: A ‘New Generation’ of Criminal Networks

  March 30, 2026, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  This presentation will explain a new configuration of organized crime “networks” in Mexico in the context of militarization, and its relationship with the energy sector in the Americas.

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  March 27, 2026, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Spanish conversation skills!

• PLACA PANEL | Leading a New Global Political & Economic Order: From Public Administrators to Leaders

  March 20, 2026, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Topics include U.S. multipolarity and Latin America's strategic position, global economics and social rights in LAC, and civil-military developments in Mexico amid global economic shifts.

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  February 27, 2026, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Spanish conversation skills!

• PLACA | Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World

  February 23, 2026, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. EST

  Hall of Languages, 500

  The Moynihan Institute’s Program on Latin America and the Caribbean welcomes Alonso J. Luján (filmmaker) and Eduardo Cassapia (musician and educator), co-founders of Comunidad Wayra.

• Film | ‘Tabom in Bahia’ | Co-Directed by Juan Diego Diaz and Nilton Pereira (2017)

  February 12, 2026, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. EST

  Stolkin Auditorium, Physics Building

  “Tabom in Bahia” documents a historic three-week journey of Ghanaian master drummer Eric Odwarkei Morton to Bahia, Brazil, in 2016. There will be a post-screening discussion with Juan Diego Díaz.

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  January 23, 2026, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Spanish conversation skills!

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  November 14, 2025, 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Spanish conversation skills!

• What Side Are You On? A Tohono O'odham Life Across Borders

  November 06, 2025, 4 p.m.-5 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Mike Wilson and José Antonio Lucero explore the impact of poverty, racism and border policing on Native peoples, focusing on Wilson's activism and personal journey.

• PLACA Meet and Greet

  November 02, 2025, 5 p.m.-8 p.m. EST

  Inn Complete Skytop Road South Campus Syracuse, NY

  Come enjoy and evening of conversation, food, music and dancing at the PLACA Meet and Greet!

• Lessons from the South: Dictatorships and Resilience in Latin America

  October 28, 2025, 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 220 | Strasser Legacy Room

  Join faculty experts for an engaging conversation about history, democracy and the choices that shape our political future.

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  October 24, 2025, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Spanish conversation skills!

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  October 03, 2025, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Spanish conversation skills!

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  September 26, 2025, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for a great opportunity to practice your Spanish conversation skills!

• Selfies of the Crossing: Mediating Migration through the Darien Jungle

  September 19, 2025, 12 p.m.-2 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Following a screening of the film, a conversation with the director will serve as a point of departure to examine the production of migrant subjectivities through visual self-representation.

• Spanish Culture and Conversation Table

  April 25, 2025, 2 p.m.-3 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Please join us for the final Spanish table of the semester.