OLA is a research and practice center at The New School University in New York, that fosters public debates on the processes of social reform occurring in Latin America.
Latest Past Events
Book Launch · The Tao of K-drama: Wise Narratives for a Troubled World
Wolff Conference Room 6 East 16th Street, New YorkThe inaugural volume in the Narrative Medicine series, The Tao of K-Drama is both scholarly and deeply personal. Drawing on Fullilove's work in community psychiatry and her lived experience as an African American woman, the book makes a compelling case for popular storytelling as a form of narrative medicine
Resilience from the Ground Up: Care Systems as Climate Infrastructure
Klein Conference Room | The New School 66 West 12th Street, room 510, New YorkThis session explores how municipal care systems, ranging from community support networks and social safety nets to public health and caretaking services, function as critical, frontline climate infrastructure.
PROGRAMS
Latin America on the Move
Events and public debates in New York in which Latin American leaders offer their views about the processes of social change in their countries and the region.
CONFLICTS IN THE DIGITAL SPACE
Site for multi-disciplinary and trans-national research and practice in issues of social and urban development.
New Urban PRACTICES
Fosters reflection and knowledge about new urban practices that go beyond disciplinary silos by focusing on integral solutions that tackle economic, social and environmental issues jointly.
Cuba Program
Platform for research and academic engagement with the processes of economic, social and environmental change underway in Cuba.
2084 imagined futures
Site for multi-disciplinary and trans-national research and practice in issues of social and urban development.
Design and Development
Events and public debates in New York in which Latin American leaders offer their views about the processes of social change in their countries and the region.
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