University of California, Santa Barbara
Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
Please join us for the first LAIS Tertulia of this year, on Friday, February 14th, at 11 am, in Girvetz 2320, on the subject of Violence and Drug Trafficking in Ecuador. The event will feature interventions by Michelle Maffei (Universidad de Guayaquil), Alejandro Borja (Universidad San Francisco de Quito), and José Zurita (University of Bergen), and […]
Our monthly community breakfast will be on Wednesday, March 12, at 10am. Come out to Girvetz 2320 to enjoy free bagels and coffee, while hearing our LAIS graduate students share some of their research!
Our monthly community breakfast will be on Wednesday, April 9, at 10am. Come out to Girvetz 2320 to enjoy free bagels and coffee, while hearing our LAIS graduate students share some of their research!
Please join us for a night of games, as we celebrate indigenous languages from across the Americas. You are welcome to bring your own games, ideas, and languages to share.
Please join us for a book presentation to mark the publication of Las cartas de Fernando Túpac Amaru y otros documentos (1782-1798) , co-edited by a collective of scholars, artists, and educators including our own Cecilia Méndez and Viola Varotto, and recently published in Lima. Cecilia Méndez and Viola Varotto will be in conversation with Jairo Melo, […]
Our monthly community breakfast will be on Wednesday, May 14, at 10am. Come out to Girvetz 2320 to enjoy free bagels and coffee, while hearing our LAIS graduate students share some of their research!
Please join us on May 23rd, from 2 to 4 pm, in Girvetz 2320, for a screening a discussion of The Market and the Monkey’s Paw: The Bitcoin Experiment in El Salvador, a documentary by Global Studies undergraduate Leo Safir, produced in collaboration with CLAIR Affiliate Prof. Nicole Cerpa Vielma (Global Studies). They will be in conversation […]
The last two decades have seen a resurgence of research with psychedelic substances for medical purposes that has concurred with a proliferation of neo-shamanic or mystical practices, retreats and communities that have the consumption of psychoactive plants and preparations at the center of their rituals. This “psychedelic renaissance,” largely popularized by Michael Pollan’s best-selling book How […]
“I thought there were too many books on Columbus until I read Matthew Restall’s,” judged one reviewer of The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus— “which has made me realize that formerly there were at least nine too few.” Said the New York Times: “Entertaining and unpredictable.” For answers to the questions you’ve always had—and some […]
Our monthly community breakfast will take place on Wednesday, November 5, at 9:00 a.m. Come out to Girvetz 2320 to enjoy free bagels and coffee!
Matthew Restall is a historian whose scholarship focuses on six areas of specialization: the Spanish Conquest era in the Americas; Aztec and Maya history; the history of colonial Mesoamerica, primarily Yucatan but including Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize; the African diaspora in the Americas; the history of Christopher Columbus; and the history of popular music. Join […]
