How Can We Save the Amazon? with Marina Silva

Please join us on October 15, 2020 at 2:30pm   for our first lecture of the new academic year. We are very excited, together with our co-sponsors – the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, the Environmental Studies Program, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the Global Studies – to […]

The Bones of Contention

Hatlen Theater

MAR 2 – 5, 2022 / 7 pm MAR 5 – 6, 2022 / 1 pm See full details on the Theater and Dance website:https://theaterdance.ucsb.edu/news/event/911

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 […]

Tertulia: “Historical Maya Displacements and the Invasion of Extractive Industries in Guatemala”

HSSB 4020

Welcome to our  second tertulia of the year! “Historical Maya Displacements and the Invasion of Extractive Industries in Guatemala”With Prof. Giovanni Batz (Chicana/o Studies UCSB) When: Fri. Dec 1st 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (PST) Where: HSSB 4020About the presentation. Through the use of the concept of the four invasions, this presentation provides an examination […]

Zoom Informational Meeting About the Master of Arts in LAIS, Watch Video

LAIS will hold a Zoom informational meeting about the Master of Arts in Latin American an Iberian Studies Tuesday December 12th, 12:00 -1:00 pm.  Learn about the Program, find out what you can do with an MA in LAIS. The panel will count with the participation of professors Giovanni Batz (Chicana/o Studies), Jaime Pérez González […]

A Conversation with Baltazar de la Cruz Rodríguez: An Analysis of the National Situation in Guatemala

Dolores Huerta Room, South Hall 1623

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. He will be discussing the 2023 presidential elections in Guatemala and the country’s political state, along with the role that ancestral authorities and indigenous communities […]