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Professor Silvia Bermúdez awarded by UCSB’s Academic Senate
Award Recipient: Professor Silvia Bermúdez Award Date: Thursday, May 30, 2019 Congratulations to Professor Silvia Bermúdez for receiving the Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award from UCSB’s Academic Senate for the 2018-2019 […]
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Documentary Screening – Emilia: An Untold Cuban American Story (2017)
Filmmaker and producer Luis Pérez Tolón and Cuban expert Professor Lillian Manzor (University of Miami) will be at hand to contextualize the 40 minutes film and answer questions. *The film […]
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Robespierre de Oliveira, “The Dark Side of the Earth or the Attempt to Empower”
This talk is part of the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, Oct. 10-12, 2019. For a PDF of the conference program: https://www.history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/IHMS-Conference-ProgramOct2b.pdf This event is co-sponsored by […]
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Robespierre de Oliveira, “The State of the Opposition in Brazil”
With the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma in 2016 the right and extreme right came to power as the opposition split. Dr. Oliveira will show how Brazilian politics have turned […]
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Welcome Lunch
Join us for lunch and a chance to meet our new LAIS graduate students, and reconnect with other LAIS members. Lunch and beverages provided.
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Interview with Professor Alicia Boswell
Alicia Boswell is Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Architecture who specializes in the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas. Trained as an archaeologist, her research focuses […]
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Antithetical Landscapes in Spanish and Catalan Nationalism By Prof. Joan Ramon Resina – Stanford University
Landscape is sometimes considered the product of human relations and economic activity. But it can also be an exercise in projection, the formation of what the psychological literature knows as […]
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LAIS Program Director, Prof. Cecilia Méndez awarded UC Humanities Research Institute Fellowship in Fall ’19!
Award Recipient: Professor Cecilia Méndez Award Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 LAIS Program Director Professor Cecilia Méndez is awarded the University of California Humanities Research Institute Fellowship to participate in […]
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Professor Casey Walsh’s new book “Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing and Infrastructure in Mexico”, 2018.
Professor Casey Walsh Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing and Infrastructure in Mexico, 2018. Virtuous Waters is a pathbreaking and innovative study of bathing, drinking and other everyday engagements with a […]
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LAIS Affiliated Faculty Ruth Helier-Tinoco’s “Performing Palimpsest Bodies: Postmemory Theatre Experiments in Mexico”, 2019.
Professor Ruth Hellier-Tinoco Performing Palimpsest Bodies: Postmemory Theatre Experiments in Mexico, 2019. Performing Palimpsest Bodies proposes the concept of palimpsest bodies to interpret provocative theatre and performance experiments that explore […]
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