University of California, Santa Barbara
Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
A Zoom Talk by Dr. Marcos Cueto Wednesday, May 13, at 12 pm – 1:30 pm (PST), via Zoom Abstract. Historical studies on epidemics in Latin America have magnified fragilities in public health structures, revealed the vulnerability of the poor and discovered cases of heroism under adversity. They have also identified an historical trend –revived […]
Watch a recording of this Tertulia here: https://youtu.be/28L30480tY0 Join us for a LAIS Tertulia in the Time of COVID, 2020-2021! After a tumultuous year of contested elections, street protests, and state repression, Bolivia and Chile have evidently reached important turning points in their democratic struggles. Is democracy back to stay? In this roundtable tertulia, one public […]
You can watch a recording of this Tertulia here: https://youtu.be/zXXfEU7ThzQ Join us for a LAIS Tertulia in the Time of COVID, 2020-2021! The people of Nicaragua have faced a series of compounding crises over the past decade: the growing authoritarianism of the Ortega-Murillo government, assaults on women’s and LGBT rights, colonization of indigenous and Afro-descendant communities’ […]
Join us for a LAIS Tertulia in the Time of COVID, 2020-2021! In her widely acclaimed book Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson complicates the category of race, as it is commonly understood in the US, by bringing caste to the fore. She discusses the “caste” historical experience of the US in light […]
REGISTER: bit.ly/laiscolombia Since April 28, 2021, thousands of people have been protesting in Colombia to demand immediate changes and structural transformations that meet historically neglected social needs. The government has mainly responded through force and the criminalization of the protests. Dozens of people have been murdered, hundreds are missing, and more than 3,405 cases of police […]
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 […]
LAIS is pleased to invite the campus community to a tertulia with Professor Federico Finchelstein. In this talk, Professor Finchelstein will discuss his latest book, The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy (University of California Press, 2024), where he maintains that Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a […]
Congratulations to Dr. Marisol Ramos (Library) for defending her PhD thesis “La nación del porvenir: La literatura fundacional cosmopolita de Alejandro Tapia (1823-1882)” at the University of Connecticut. Her dissertation will be the subject of our next tertulia on May 20th from 12-1:30 pm in Girvetz 2320.
