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Tertulia | Bolivia and Chile Today: Democracy Vindicated?
Watch a recording of this Tertulia here: https://youtu.be/28L30480tY0 Join us for a LAIS Tertulia in the Time of COVID, 2020-2021! After a tumultuous year of contested elections, street protests, and state […]
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Lo propio es así: Raza y matiz racial en la República Dominicana
“Lo propio es así: Raza y matiz racial en la República Dominicana” Seis siglos de historia y de legados transatlánticos han dado forma a un entorno racial complejo en la […]
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Letter from LAIS Director Cecilia Méndez
Late last Winter, as we were purchasing tickets and reserving hotel rooms for the two keynote speakers of our second International Graduate Student Conference “Borders, Power, Transgression,” COVID struck. Months […]
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Welcome to new LAIS Graduate Student Emma Laura Zamora
Emma Laura Zamora joins LAIS at UCSB from Cal Poly SLO where she received a B.A. in History. Read on to learn about what motivated Ms. Zamora to study Latin America, […]
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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.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Latin American and Iberian Studies Program