On February 5, Professor Giovanni Batz will have a book presentation on his new publication, “The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractavism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala.” This presentation will feature commentators Charles Hale, the Dean of Social Sciences, and Javiera Barandiarán, Associate Professor of Global Studies. Assistant Professor Daina Sanchez of Chicana/o Studies will moderate. […]

Professor Juan Cobo Betancourt, Director of the LAIS Program, has an upcoming event on February 7 for his recent publication of “The Coming of the Kingdom: The Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granda!” The event will be co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Center for Latin American […]

Our monthly community breakfast will be on Wednesday, February 12, at 10am. Come out to Girvetz 2320 to enjoy free bagels and coffee, while hearing our LAIS graduate students share some of their research!

Please join us for the first LAIS Tertulia of this year, on Friday, February 14th, at 11 am, in Girvetz 2320, on the subject of Violence and Drug Trafficking in Ecuador. The event will feature interventions by Michelle Maffei (Universidad de Guayaquil), Alejandro Borja (Universidad San Francisco de Quito), and José Zurita (University of Bergen), and […]

Our monthly community breakfast will be on Wednesday, March 12, at 10am. Come out to Girvetz 2320 to enjoy free bagels and coffee, while hearing our LAIS graduate students share some of their research!

Our monthly community breakfast will be on Wednesday, April 9, at 10am. Come out to Girvetz 2320 to enjoy free bagels and coffee, while hearing our LAIS graduate students share some of their research!

Our monthly community breakfast will be on Wednesday, May 14, at 10am. Come out to Girvetz 2320 to enjoy free bagels and coffee, while hearing our LAIS graduate students share some of their research!