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Meet Our New LAIS Faculty Affiliate Prof. Giovanni Batz!
Dr. Giovanni Batz, an Assistant Professor in the Chicano/a Studies department, recently joined the LAIS Program as an affiliated faculty member. He specializes in Maya social movements and resistance, extractivist […]
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Welcome, LAIS Graduate Affiliates!
The LAIS Program would like to welcome all new LAIS graduate affiliates from departments across UCSB to a gathering on Tuesday, March 5th at 10:30am in Girvetz 2320. We will […]
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Transnational Palestine: A Book Talk with Author Nadim Bawalsa
The LAIS Program, the Center for Middle East Studies, and the History Department, are pleased to invite you to a book talk and conversation with historian and author Nadim Bawalsa (Associate Editor, Journal […]
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Prof. Alicia Boswell has Received a Fellowship!
Congratulations to Professor Alicia Boswell (History of Art and Architecture), who won a one-year fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC, a Harvard-affiliated research institute, in the Pre-Columbian area of […]
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Meet Our New Graduate Student Jennifer Valenzuela!
Jennifer Valenzuela joined the LAIS Master’s Program in Fall 2023. In this interview she shared her motivations to study Latin America, her research interests, and the role her family played […]
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Prof. Antonio Cortijo Ocaña has a New Book!
Congratulations to Professor Antonio Cortijo Ocaña (Spanish and Portuguese) who published Modernidad y Sociedad Civil: La retórica de Boncompagno da Signa y el nacimiento de la sociedad civil as part […]
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LAIS Graduate Affiliate Initiative
The Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies (LAIS) is pleased to announce its new LAIS graduate affiliates initiative. This new affiliate program will connect graduate students enrolled in departments […]
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A Conversation with Baltazar de la Cruz Rodríguez: An Analysis of the National Situation in Guatemala
LAIS and the Central American Studies Working Group are happy to invite you to the conversation with Baltazar de la Cruz Rodríguez, a Maya Ixil ancestral authority of Cotzal, Guatemala. […]
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Remembering Professor Reg Daniel
Reginald Daniel, Professor in the Sociology department and a LAIS Faculty Affiliate, was a dear member of the LAIS community. Passionate and generous as a mentor and colleague, he was […]
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Notes on Giovanni Batz’ Tertulia: “Historical Maya Displacements and the Invasion of Extractive Industries in Guatemala”
In our second Tertulia of the year, on Friday December 1st, we welcomed Dr. Giovanni Batz an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at UCSB, specializing in extractivist […]
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