Articles by Juan Leal Ugalde
Foreign Language Film Festival at Elon: Latin America Today, Risks and Dreams
April 29, 2024
Movies shown during the festival reflected on the collective and individual capacity for empowerment to survive challenging socio-economic conditions, live in territories affected by environmental crises, and experience persecution and criminalization of struggles for justice in Latin America.
In Solidarity with Latin America: An art exhibition on Elon’s campus
November 6, 2023
This exhibition consists of thirteen posters created by artists Calixto Robles (Mexico, born 1957) and René Castro (Chile, born 1943).
Geography expert gives talk on environmental issues in Ecuadorian Amazonia to Elon community
May 2, 2022
Latin American Studies hosted its 2022 Spring Semester Annual Research Series, “Political Ecologies of Healing in the Americas,” by UNC Professor of Geography Gabriela Valdivia.
The Latin American Studies Program presents 2022 Documentary Film Series
April 25, 2022
The Latin American Studies Program (LAS) presents its 2022 Documentary Film Series: “Surviving Memories: Documenting Political Trauma and Racial Violence in the Caribbean and South America" starting Monday, April 25.
Virtual conversation featuring NatGeo photojournalist, Princeton lecturer focuses on migratory crisis in Latin America
April 13, 2022
Photographer Tomás Ayuso and Amelia Frank-Vitale from Princeton University hosted a virtual event on contemporary migratory crisis from Central America and Mexico to the United States.
Elon hosts Duke professor to speak on Latinx music in North Carolina’s Appalachian area
January 13, 2022
Sophia Enriquez, assistant professor of music, held a conference on Elon's campus about Latinx musical traditions of migrant farmworkers in North Carolina during the second half of the 20th century.
Elon hosted a series of conferences on ecological and political justice in Latin America
November 10, 2021
The final conference, “The Persistence of the Nightmare: Argentine Narrative of the 21st Century," was hosted by Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University Greg Dawes at Carlton Commons on Nov. 9.
Elon faculty member to give keynote lecture at the 2021 Latin American Studies Research Series
October 26, 2021
The Latin American Studies Research series is held each year at Elon to explore critical issues concerning the history, culture, communities, politics and art of Latin America from different disciplines and approaches.
Department of World Languages and and Cultures faculty organize events for indigenous resistance in Latin America
May 17, 2021
The three webinars held during April covered a variety of topics.
Social justice symposium focuses on effect of pandemic across society, continents
December 4, 2020
The symposium took place across four webinars this fall and was organized by faculty members from the Department of World Languages and Cultures.