Latest Past Events

LAIS Welcome Back Lunch / Tertulia

McCune Conference Room HSSB 6020

Khipu, and Andean Instrument of Management, Memory and Power with Dr. Lydia Fossa In our first tertulia of the year, Peruvian researcher Lydia Fossa will discuss her most recent findings on khipus, the famed bunches of colored cords dotted with knots used by the Inkas, revealing them as instruments of management, memory and power. Was […]

“Transcorporeality in Black Atlantic Religions”, a talk with Roberto Strongman

Department of Black Studies Conference Room (South Hall)

Roberto Strongman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This presentation establishes Transcorporeality as the distinct Afro-Diasporic cultural representation of the human psyche as multiple, removable and external to a body that functions as its receptacle. This unique view of the body, preserved in its […]