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Juan Carlos Estenssoro’s “The inescapable Indian: Yungas, chunchos and serranos in the geographical, social and pictorial imaginings of Perú, 16th through 18th centuries.”
Juan Carlos Estenssoro is an historian and professor of Iberian and Latin American Studies at l’Université Paris, where he also directs the Center for Research on Colonial Spanish America (CRAEC). […]
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Professor Javiera Barandiarán’s new book Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy
About the Book: In Science and Environment in Chile, Professor Barandiarán examines the consequences for environmental governance when the state lacks the capacity to produce an authoritative body of knowledge. […]
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Book Launch: Professor Juan and Natalie Cobo’s La legislación de la arquidiócesis de Santafé en el periodo colonial [The legislation of the archdiocese of Santafé in the colonial period]
About the Book The Catholic Church played a central role in shaping how early modern Spaniards arranged their own lives and attempted to transform those of the indigenous peoples of […]
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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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