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Greetings RAICCS affiliates and Friends, I’m pleased to announce the first edition (with many to come!) of our RAICCS Newsletter. This platform will be our way of keeping you all in the loop and updated about what we have done and what is to come each semester. This inaugural edition is also an occasion for me to share the news that my term as Director is concluding and I’m very happy to pass the baton to my good colleague and long-time RAICCS affiliate, current RAICCS steering committee...

2025 - 2026 AY RAICCS EVENTS   Undisciplined: Writing & Creating Otherwise Throughout the 2025-26 academic year, RAICCS co-sponsored the LCS signature speaker series led by Kaysha Corinealdi, entitled "Undisciplined: Writing & Creating Otherwise," which featured scholars who have utilized a wide array of topical, narrative, digital, and stylistic approaches in their works in ways that unsettle disciplinary boundaries and represent key transformations in the fields of Latinx & Caribbean Studies...

Nicole Burrowes, RAICCS Associate Director, has a new book coming out in August 2026 titled, Seeds of Solidarity: African-Indian Relations and the 1935 Labor Rebellion in British Guiana (Cambridge University Press)! Yesenia Barragan has a new  book coming out in November 2026 titled, In Latin America You Could be Free (Basic Books)! Elena Lahr-Vivaz shares that in May, she presented her work, “Archipelagic Adaptations of Revolution and Romance: La isla de los amores infinitos,” at the Latin...