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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The LAIS Program, the Center for Middle East Studies, and the History Department, are pleased to invite you to a book talk and conversation with historian and author Nadim Bawalsa (Associate Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies) , moderated by Amy Fallas (History Department, UCSB). This event will be taking place Friday, March 1st,  11 am  – 12:00 pm in […]

The LAIS Program would like to welcome all new LAIS graduate affiliates from departments across UCSB to a gathering on Tuesday, March 5th at 10:30am in Girvetz 2320. We will be providing a space for intellectual enrichment and debate, where graduate students can share common interests, get support for their research, and interact with other […]

The LAIS Program, the Center for Middle East Studies, and the History Department welcomed author Nadim Bawalsa to present his book Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948 on March 1st. Here on the LAIS YouTube channel you can watch his presentation and the following discussion. 

Congratulations to Professor Kathleen Bruhn (Political Science) for her forthcoming book Politics and the Pink Tide: A Comparative Analysis of Protest in Latin America (Notre Dame Press, April 2024). Her book will be the subject of our next tertulia on April 5th from 3-5pm in Girvetz 2320, with the participation of Nicole Cerpa (Global Studies), […]