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LAIS Director Cecilia Méndez interviewed in ‘La República’
Professor Cecilia Méndez (History), LAIS Program Director, was interviewed by the Peruvian newspaper La República about current events and politics in Peru. The interview can be found here: ‘La Republica’ article.
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LAIS affiliate Prof. Jeff Hoelle had an Op-ed in the LA Times
Professor Jeff Hoelle (Anthropology) had an op-ed in the LA Times about the fires in Brazil in August, 2019. His piece can be found here: LA Times article.
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“Gender and Intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,”
Professors Miroslava Chávez-García and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz (History) have served as guest editors in the Winter 2020 issue of the Pacific Historical Review’s special issue, “Gender and Intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico […]
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History of Art and Architecture 2019-2020 Lecture Series: Making. “Were They Enslaved? A New Look at Maya Figurines”
Please join the LAIS Community in attending the Department of History of Art and Architecture’s public lecture “Were They Enslaved? A New Look at Maya Figurines”, delivered by Mary Miller […]
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LAIS affiliated faculty, Professor Roberto Strongman interviewed in ‘La Estrella’
Roberto Strongman is Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at UCSB. In his most recent publication ‘Queering Black Atlantic Religions’ (2019), Professor Strongman offers a novel analysis of […]
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LAIS affiliated faculty Evelyne Laurent-Perrault awarded fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library
Award Recipient: Evelyne Laurent Perrault Award Date: Thursday, February 13, 2020 Professor Evelyne Laurent-Perrault has been awarded Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library […]
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Interview with Professor Miroslava Chávez-Gárcia
Miroslava Chávez-García is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She is the author of Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s (Tucson, […]
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Protests and Politics in Latin America: What is new in Chile and Colombia?
Join us to learn more about the current political situations and ongoing protests in Chile and Colombia. A round table discussion will be lead by Javiera Barandiarán (Director, EAP in […]
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‘Hostile Terrain 94’ Featured in Santa Barbara Independent
LAIS is pleased to share a recent publication by the Santa Barbara Independent Newspaper which features ‘Hostile Terrain 94’. HT94 is intended to memorialize and bear witness to the thousands […]
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International Graduate Student Conference: Borders, Power and Transgression
A border is what separates things, and the border’s very existence is inseparable both from the power that sustains it and from the possibility of its transgression. In recent years, […]
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