Interview with LAIS Alumnus Steve Pent
Steve Pent LAIS MA Alumni ’07 What is the main contribution/argument of your book? One of the main contributions of my book will have been to draw attention to the
Professor Javiera Barandiarán’s new book Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy
About the Book: In Science and Environment in Chile, Professor Barandiarán examines the consequences for environmental governance when the state lacks the capacity to produce an authoritative body of knowledge.
Program Director Cecilia Méndez Interview in UCSB’s ‘The Current’
LAIS Program director, Cecilia Méndez, sits down with UCSB’s campus news publication ‘The Current’ to discuss themes of displacements among peoples worldwide. Please be sure to join us April 10th
LAIS 2019 undergraduate conference, “Displacements: peoples, politics, and rights in Latin America and the Iberian World”
UC Santa Barbara Displacements: Peoples, Politics, and Rights First Latin American and Iberian Studies Undergraduate Student Conference April 10th– 11th, 2019 Harbor Room, UCen WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10th
LAIS affiliated faculty Verónica Castillo Muñoz is awarded long-term fellowship from the Huntington Library
Congratulations to LAIS affiliated faculty Verónica Castillo Muñoz for winning a long-term fellowship from the Huntington Library to work on her project “Women and Revolution: A Tale of Violence and Deception
LAIS Vice-Director Juan Cobo awarded John Carter Brown Library fellowship
Award Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019 Congratulations to LAIS Vice-Director Juan Cobo for winning a yearlong John Carter Brown Library fellowship for his project “The coming of the kingdom: the Muisca, the
LAIS conference featured in Humanities and Fine Arts Division
Our first International Graduate Student Conference, held in May of 2018, has recently been featured in the Humanities and Fine Arts Division website. Click here to read the article. For more information
LAIS International Graduate Conference May 2018: Violence, Memory, and History
In recent decades, studies on memory have come to center stage across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Scholars have come to recognize memory as a key arena in