"Approaching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Teaching about Latin America" 

Latin Americanist faculty from all disciplines are invited to participate in the Spring 2025 Teaching and Learning Workshop.  The workshop is offered in collaboration with the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP), a national organization supporting teaching, outreach, and program development. 

The North Central Council of Latin Americanists is pleased to invite its members to participate in the Fourteenth Teaching and Learning Workshop. The Teaching and Learning Workshop is intended to build on the cross-disciplinary nature of the NCCLA Conference by bringing together Latin Americanists from a variety of different fields to talk about a particular topic or pedagogical tool in an informal, roundtable type of format.

This year, we are excited to be talking about diversity, equity and inclusion. Teaching about Latin America would seem to offer some unique dynamics when addressing DEI issues. On the one hand, for many of our students, learning about Latin America is by definition exposing them to different perspectives. However, engaging with Latin America also means recognizing that the minority experience in Latin America is different in a variety of ways from the North American minority experience. We will take up these issues and others during this workshop.

This is not an event where participants will share papers or give presentations. Instead, participants will simply share with each other their difficulties and successes in dealing with the subject of diversity, equity and inclusion in classes on Latin America. Our goal is for participants to be able to take direct action in their own courses based on what they’ve learned at the Workshop.

Registration Deadline: March 25, 2025

This NCCLA workshop is supported by the UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), a Title VI National Resource Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Education. 

Registration fee (includes Saturday lunch):  $25 (NCCLA members, CLACS members or RFAs) / $35 (non-member fee includes NCCLA membership until August 31, 2025); one night lodging provided by NCCLA for the first 10 participants.