Coronavirus and Historical Patterns of Epidemics in Latin America
ZoomA 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 […]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
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Tertulia
Tertulia | Bolivia and Chile Today: Democracy Vindicated?
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 […]
Tertulia: Social Movements, Identity, and Resistance in Contemporary Nicaragua
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 […]
Tertulia | Race and Caste in Latin America, India, and the USA: A Global Conversation
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, […]
Social Mobilization and State Violence in Colombia
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 […]
LAIS Welcome Back Lunch / Tertulia
McCune Conference Room HSSB 6020Khipu, 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 […]
Tertulia with Federico Finchelstein: The History and Politics of Wannabe Fascism
HSSB 4020LAIS 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 […]
Tertulia with Marisol Ramos, “Cosmopolitanism and Feminism in Puerto Rico”
Girvetz 2320Congratulations 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 […]