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Welcome to new LAIS Graduate Student Marlene Torres-Magaña
Marlene Torres-Magaña received her BA in Chicana/o Studies and Black Studies at UCSB. Read on to learn about what motivated Ms. Torres-Magaña to study Latin America, her current research plans […]
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Ixil Maya Resistance against Megaprojects in Cotzal, Guatemala
Join us to hear from Dr. Giovanni Batz (UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis) about “Ixil Maya Resistance against Megaprojects in Cotzal, Guatemala” Among the Ixil Maya of Guatemala, the […]
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Tertulia: Social Movements, Identity, and Resistance in Contemporary Nicaragua
You can watch a recording of this Tertulia here: https://youtu.be/zXXfEU7ThzQ Join us for a LAIS Tertulia in the Time of COVID, 2020-2021! The people of Nicaragua have faced a series of […]
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LAIS Tertulia in the HFA news! “Coronavirus and Historic Patterns of Epidemics in Latin America” with Dr. Marcos Cueto
The LAIS March 2020 Tertulia, “Coronavirus and Historic Patterns of Epidemics in Latin America” with Dr. Marcos Cueto, featured by the Humanities and Fine Arts News at UC Santa Barbara. […]
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Professor Miroslava Chavez-Garcia interviewed about the forced sterilizations of migrant women in detention in Georgia.
Professor Miroslava Chavez-Garcia (History) was interviewed about the forced sterilizations of migrant women in detention in Georgia. You can read the article HERE.
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Professor Dwight Reynolds has a new book, “The Musical Heritage of al-Andalus” (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)
Professor Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) has a book in press with Routledge/Taylor & Francis titled The Musical Heritage of al-Andalus that deals with music in medieval Iberia from the Muslim conquest in 711 CE […]
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LAIS invites proposals for Roundtable Tertulias in the Time of COVID
LAIS invites affiliated faculty, instructors, students, alumni and staff to propose Roundtable Tertulias. In these extraordinary times, LAIS proposes to fund up to six virtual tertulias for the 2020-2021 academic year […]
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LAIS Welcome Reception Fall 2020
The Latin American & Iberian Studies Program, at UC Santa Barbara, invites faculty, students, staff and alumni to join us to meet our new members and connect with LAIS. Zoom […]
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Congratulations to Professor Melissa Morgan
Professor Melissa Morgan (Gevirtz Graduate School of Education) made Full Professor this year and became a Fellow of the American Psychological Association! The LAIS family congratulates Professor Morgan on these two achievements.
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Suzanne Levine interview in “Southwest Review”
Professor Suzanne Levine (Spanish and Portuguese) interviewed in Southwest Review about becoming a protagonist in the story of Latin American literature in English translation, her working publishing biographies and translations, and creating a mashup of […]
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