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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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Interview with LAIS Alumna, Nicole Pacino
Nicole Pacino, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, holds a B.A. from DePauw University. She graduated from the LAIS M.A. Program in 2007 and went on to puruse a PhD […]
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Interview with Dr. Anabel Ford, MARC Director
Dr. Ford is adjunct Professor and Director of the MesoAmerican research center at UCSB. Her work focuses on the ancient Maya and the tropical forest of Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico. […]
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