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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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Global/Premodern/Race
This symposium brings together scholars working in Iberian, Middle Eastern, and Medieval Studies to engage in a critical discussion concerning race—reevaluating both its utility as a category of analysis in […]
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5th Bi-Annual Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Emerging Historiography of the Chicano Movement
The 5th Bi-Annual Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Emerging Historiography of the Chicano Movement to be held Feb. 28-29, 2020 in the McCune Room of the IHC. The conference […]
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Lecture “Pop Music Before The Pop Era Spanish Music in the US Early Recording Industry (1896-1914)” by Professor Kiko Mora
Professor Kiko Mora (Ph.D. The Ohio State University) is professor of the Semiotics of Advertising and Culture Industries in the Department of Communication and Social Psychology at the Universidad de Alicante […]
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Interview with LAIS Alumna, Thelma Patnett
Thelma Patnett is LAIS M.A. Alumna (2018), she is now pursuing a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. What led you to pursue an MA […]
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Professor Juan Cobo Betancourt featured in JCB Library news
Professor Juan Cobo Betancourt, LAIS Faculty, is currently in Rhode Island at the John Carter Brown Library on a nine-month fellowship researching and writing “The coming of the Kingdom: the […]
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A very big ‘Thank You’ to our LAIS Lecturers
The Latin American and Iberian Studies Program (LAIS) is proud to recognize, and thank the lecturers, Dr. Emily Engel, Alba Constenla Torrado, and Mario Tumen who taught Program courses in […]
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Associate Professor Roberto Strongman’s “Queering Black Atlantic Religions”
Roberto Strongman is Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Congratulations to Associate Professor Roberto Strongman’s Queering Black Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, […]
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Rosa Rodriguez
Rosa Rodriguez is a first year MA student in the LAIS Program. She completed her Undergraduate studies at CSU Long Beach and double majored in Sociology and Chicano Latino studies. […]
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