Center for Latian American and Caribbean Studies

Upcoming Events

GREN AND BLUE WITH LETTERS NUESTRA TIERRA

NCLAFF. OUR LAND (NUESTRA TIERRA)

Friday, October 16 at 7:00pm

Nuestra Tierra (Landmark). 2025. Dir. Lucrecia Martel (Argentina). 122 min. DCP In 2009, a man and two accomplices try to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern ...

A FLYER IN with a render of an art installation

GROUNDING AMERICA: COTTON

Tuesday, October 20 at 5:00pm

OCTOBER 20, 2026. FREDRIC JAMESON GALLERY. Friedl Building East Campus. 5-7 pm. Let’s help write BELONGING? | WE THE PEOPLE. white cotton on black cotton. Black and White. Come on ...

A FLYER IN SHOWING A MANDALA MADE OUT OF CORN KERNELS

GROUNDING AMERICA: CORN MANDALA

Monday, October 26 at 9:00am

OCTOBER 25-30, 2026. The Edge. Duke Library. West Campus CORN MANDALA. Guest Artist Jorge Taylor Rojas (U.S/Mexico – based in Salt Lake City, Utah) will lead the collaborative installation of ...

A MAN ON A RED BACKGROUND LETTERS WHITE A POET

NCLAFF. A POET

Tuesday, October 27 at 6:30pm

Un Poeta (A Poet). 2025 Dir. Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia). Span / Eng Sub. 120 min. Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry has brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he ...

A FLYER DEPICTING A MAN HOLDING A BABY

GROUNDING AMERICA: COTTON SEEDS

Thursday, November 12 at 6:00pm

November 12, 2026. Ahmadieh Family Lecture. Smith Warehouse, Bay 4. 6:00 pm SCREENING. SEEDS. (2025) 123″. Britanny Shyne. Interweaving the stories of three Black generational farmers to create a collective ...

Past Events

A GROUP OF PEOPLE DANCES AND PLAYS MUSIC

NCLAFF. UN FANDANGO EN CAROLINA

Thursday, September 24 at 6:00pm

Un Fandango en Carolina. 2026. Iximché Media. 25 min. The 25-minute film tells stories of North Carolina’s diasporic community from the Sotavento region of southern Mexico through music, memory, and ...

Image with words Cartonera Showcase with Duke Students

Cartonera Showcase with Duke Students

April 21, 2026

Join us as Duke’s first student cartonera collective, Muyu Pacha, showcases its original cartonera books and invites you to learn more about this publishing movement from Latin America. Cartoneras (Spanish ...

words cluttered on paper with sticky note added

Archive as Ceremony: A Symposium

March 3, 2026

Archive as Ceremony: A Symposium The archive of novelist, essayist, philosopher, and scholar Sylvia Wynter was acquired by the John Hope Franklin Research Center in 2018 and will be opened ...

Young immigrants dressed in orange jumpsuits, who have been arrested by Border Patrols.

Film Screening: The Infiltrators

February 11, 2026

The Infiltrators (2019, 95 min.) is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who get arrested by Border Patrol and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center ...

FLYER AI & ART

AI & ART. MIGRATORY AESTHETICS

October 24, 2025

Round Table Raquel Salvatella, Rodrigo Dorfman, Luciana Parisi, Hugo Idarraga Franco, Cornelio Campos. Moderated by Miguel Rojas Sotelo Data: Training data is a global endeavor, drawing on millions of images ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS

NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

October 9, 2025

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS

NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

October 8, 2025

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS

NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

October 7, 2025

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS

NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

October 6, 2025

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS

NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

October 5, 2025

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS

NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

October 4, 2025

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

NCLAFF

NCLAFF. Stopping the Deportation Machine

October 4, 2025

5:00 PM. Expanding Sanctuary. Kristal Sotomayor. USA. 21 minutes. English and Spanish with subtitles. The NCLAFF is proud to add to its line-up of events: 5:30 pm. Stopping the Deportation ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS

NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

October 3, 2025

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS

NC LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

October 3, 2025

A MESSAGE FROM THE ELDERS. Nearly 80% of the terrestrial ecoregions are inhabited and protected by one or more Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples ...

poster for The Falling Sky

Film: The Falling Sky

March 18, 2025

Dir. by Eryk Rocha, Bernard Machado. 2024. 110 min. Aocumentary about Indigenous peoples’ profound connection to nature and their struggle against deforestation, a grave threat to their way of life ...

poster for Haiti Untold, the untold story of Radical Change in Haiti

2024 Haitian Film Series: Haiti Untold

December 6, 2024

Dir. Dan Shannon and Isabelle DePelteau, 2014, 76 min. Haiti Untold chronicles the personal journey of a few famous and not-so-famous individuals who have put their heads and hearts to ...

art from 68 voices, 68 hearts; a woman contains the cosmos with swirling orange hair

Reception for Gabriela Badillo

November 6, 2024

CLACS welcomes Gabriela Badillo, founder and director of 68 Voces, 68 Corazones, as she opens her exhibit of posters in the Spanish Language Program House and Languages building. Badillo is ...

The headshot of a smiling woman with long black hair on a flyer with the title and sponsor of the event.

W@TC – 68 Voices

November 6, 2024

As part of its Linguistic Justice Series, the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies presents Gabriela Badillo’s 68 Voices project. 68 Voces, 68 Corazones (68 voices, 68 hearts) ...

a girl looks lovingly at her wooly llama

NCLAFF: Cuidando al sol (Sun & Daughter)

October 26, 2024

Free and open to the public. Dir. by Catalina Razzini. Bolivia. 2022. 84 min. Spanish, Aymara, with English subtitles. Pragda series. Ten-year-old Lucía’s family lives in the Island of the ...

still from Cuba My Soul; musicians play for an applauding crowd

NCLAFF: Cuba, My Soul

October 25, 2024

Free and open to the public. Welcome reception at 6:30 p.m. in the Mandela Auditorium alcove. Introduction by Lou Pérez, History, UNC-Chapel Hill. A panel follows the film on Cuban ...

still from Amazonia; an indigenous woman with face tattoos gazes into the camera

NCLAFF: Amazônia, a nova minamata?

October 24, 2024

Introduced by Gustavo Furtado, Romance Studies at Duke. With the presence of the director, Jorge Bodansky Free and open to the public. Dir. by Jorge Bodansky. Brazil. 2022. 75 min. ...

still from Cambio, Cambio; young man watches money being counted

NCLAFF: Cambio, Cambio (Money Exchange)

October 23, 2024

Introduced by Mario Valdés Navia, a Cuban Scholar at Risk at NHI and Duke University. Free and open to the public. Dir. by Carlos Lechuga. Cuba/France/USA. 77 min. Carlos Lechuga’s ...

Sergio Sánchez Santamaría. El Gran Nahual. At Duke

GRAPHIC IN TRANSIT SERGIO SANCHEZ SANTAMARIA

October 18, 2024

Duke | Durham Artist in Residence Presents Sergio Sánchez Santamaría. The Heir of El Taller de Gráfica Popular de México BOOK SIGNING AND PRESENTATION GRAPHIC IN TRANSIT Sergio Sánchez Santamaría ...

still from Blanco en Blanco; a man takes a photo with an old fashioned camera

NCLAFF: Blanco en Blanco (White on White)

October 17, 2024

Introduced by Miguel Rojas-Sotelo Free and open to the public. Dir. by Theo Court. Chile. 2019. 90 min. Spanish, English, Dutch, Mapudungun with English subtitles. Traveling photographer Pedro is a ...

still from The Settlers film; 3 men on horseback in a mountainous terrain

NCLAFF: Los Colonos (The Settlers)

October 10, 2024

Introduced by Hank Okazaki, Screen/Society Free and open to the public. Dir. by Felipe Gálvez. Chile. 2023. 90 min. Spanish, English with English subtitles. At the turn of the 20th ...

poster for Cassandro; Gael Garcia Bernal sits next to a wrestling ring in costume

NCLAFF: Cassandro

October 9, 2024

Free and open to the public. Dir. by Roger Ross Williams. Mexico-USA. 2024. 107 minutes. Spanish with English subtitles. Pragda series. Based on the true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a ...

colorful street fair scene with Duke Chapel in background

Mezcla 2024

April 20, 2024

Performers, vendors, and food! Organized by Mi Gente, co-sponsored by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Part of Duke’s Latino/a Student Recruitment Weekend. For more information contact ...

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The Invention of the Other

April 19, 2024

Please join us for the Amazon Lab Film Series showing of “The Invention of the Other” (Dir. Bruno Jorge, Brazil). This Friday, April 19, 12:30pm – in the Amazon Lab, ...