Arturo Escobar in LAIS 200
PHELPS 5309Dr. 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 […]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
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Cultural Heritage and Community: Protecting the Past for the Future in the Moche Valley, Peru. Alicia Boswell, History of Art and Architecture, UCSB
HSSB 4020Media 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 […]
Dean’s Lecture Series: Arturo Escobar (Major Lecture & Reception)
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 […]
LAIS Undergraduate Student Conference 2019
Santa Barbara Harbor RoomUCenThe 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. […]
SILENCED VOICES | XIX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference
Mosher Alumni HouseThe 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 […]
SILENCED VOICES | XIX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference
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 House that Binds: Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Peru” Rachel Sarah O’Toole, UC Irvine
HSSB 4020The 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, […]
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Criminalizing Immigrant Families: Race, Gender, and Family Separations at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Loma Pelona Conference RoomRace 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 […]
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Book Launch: Professor Juan and Natalie Cobo’s La legislación de la arquidiócesis de Santafé en el periodo colonial [The legislation of the archdiocese of Santafé in the colonial period]
McCune Conference Room 6th Floor HSSBAbout 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 […]
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Juan Carlos Estenssoro’s “The inescapable Indian: Yungas, chunchos and serranos in the geographical, social and pictorial imaginings of Perú, 16th through 18th centuries.”
McCune Conference Room 6th Floor HSSBJuan 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). […]
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Antithetical Landscapes in Spanish and Catalan Nationalism By Prof. Joan Ramon Resina – Stanford University
Sara Miller McCune Library at the Mosher HouseLandscape 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 […]
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LAIS End of Year Picnic!
Goleta Beach ParkPlease join LAIS Graduate, and Undergraduate Students, Faculty, and Staff Friday May 10th to celebrate the coming end of the Academic Year. LAIS has grown rapidly over the past year […]