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Program Director Cecilia Méndez Interview in UCSB’s ‘The Current’
LAIS Program director, Cecilia Méndez, sits down with UCSB’s campus news publication ‘The Current’ to discuss themes of displacements among peoples worldwide. Please be sure to join us April 10th […]
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LAIS 2019 undergraduate conference, “Displacements: peoples, politics, and rights in Latin America and the Iberian World”
UC Santa Barbara Displacements: Peoples, Politics, and Rights First Latin American and Iberian Studies Undergraduate Student Conference April 10th– 11th, 2019 Harbor Room, UCen WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10th […]
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LAIS Undergraduate Student Conference 2019
The displacement of peoples fleeing violence and extreme poverty in their home countries is one of the most pressing problems worldwide. Some telling examples are taking place in Latin America. […]
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LAIS affiliated faculty Verónica Castillo Muñoz is awarded long-term fellowship from the Huntington Library
Congratulations to LAIS affiliated faculty Verónica Castillo Muñoz for winning a long-term fellowship from the Huntington Library to work on her project “Women and Revolution: A Tale of Violence and Deception […]
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LAIS Vice-Director Juan Cobo awarded John Carter Brown Library fellowship
Award Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019 Congratulations to LAIS Vice-Director Juan Cobo for winning a yearlong John Carter Brown Library fellowship for his project “The coming of the kingdom: the Muisca, the […]
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Dean’s Lecture Series: Arturo Escobar (Major Lecture & Reception)
Healing the Web of Life:Autonomous Transition Design as Political-Ontological Praxis Arturo Escobar: Practitioner-in-Residence, UC Santa Barbara Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, UNC Thursday, March 7, 2019 3:30 5:00 PM […]
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Arturo Escobar in LAIS 200
Dr. Arturo Escobar, Colombian Anthropologist, renowned intellectual, and Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill, will be a guest in the LAIS 200 Graduate Seminar from […]
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LAIS Tertulia: Understanding Venezuela’s Crisis
A Roundtable with the Participation of Kathleen Bruhn (Political Science, UCSB) • Evelyne Laurent-Perrault (History, UCSB) • Juan Pablo Lupi (Spanish and Portuguese, UCSB) • Andreína Soto Segura (History, UCSB) […]
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Edgardo Pérez Morales at the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History. “Slavery, irreverence, and sovereignty in the revolutionary Caribbean”.
Edgardo Pérez Morales (Assistant Professor, History Department, USC), presents “Slavery, Irreverence, and Sovereignty in the Revolutionary Caribbean” as part of the History Department’s Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History. […]
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SILENCED VOICES | XIX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference
The Lusophone and Hispanic Annual Graduate Conference, organized by the Spanish and Portuguese Department’s Graduate Students, has been in existence for almost 20 years. As an interdisciplinary event, which presents […]