University of California, Santa Barbara
Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
A Roundtable with the Participation of Kathleen Bruhn (Political Science, UCSB) • Evelyne Laurent-Perrault (History, UCSB) • Juan Pablo Lupi (Spanish and Portuguese, UCSB) • Andreína Soto Segura (History, UCSB) […]
Dr. Arturo Escobar, Colombian Anthropologist, renowned intellectual, and Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill, will be a guest in the LAIS 200 Graduate Seminar from […]
Media reports on cultural heritage issues focus primarily on the destruction of ancient monuments and the illicit looting and sale of antiquities, especially at the hands of groups such as […]
Healing the Web of Life:Autonomous Transition Design as Political-Ontological Praxis Arturo Escobar: Practitioner-in-Residence, UC Santa Barbara Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, UNC Thursday, March 7, 2019 3:30 5:00 PM […]
The displacement of peoples fleeing violence and extreme poverty in their home countries is one of the most pressing problems worldwide. Some telling examples are taking place in Latin America. […]
The Lusophone and Hispanic Annual Graduate Conference, organized by the Spanish and Portuguese Department’s Graduate Students, has been in existence for almost 20 years. As an interdisciplinary event, which presents […]
The Lusophone and Hispanic Annual Graduate Conference, organized by the Spanish and Portuguese Department’s Graduate Students, has been in existence for almost 20 years. As an interdisciplinary event, which presents […]
The Household that Binds: Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Peru Talk by Rachel Sarah O’Toole (UC Irvine) To demonstrate how enslaved and freed people in Colonial Peru contracted their freedom, […]
Race and gender have shaped the law, public policy, and the emotional and physical experiences of migration throughout history. At the present moment, however, shifting patterns of migration and the […]
About the Book The Catholic Church played a central role in shaping how early modern Spaniards arranged their own lives and attempted to transform those of the indigenous peoples of […]
Juan Carlos Estenssoro is an historian and professor of Iberian and Latin American Studies at l’Université Paris, where he also directs the Center for Research on Colonial Spanish America (CRAEC). […]
Landscape is sometimes considered the product of human relations and economic activity. But it can also be an exercise in projection, the formation of what the psychological literature knows as […]