LAIS MA Recruitment Day

Winter 2021 virtual visit to UC Santa Barbara for students accepted into the LAIS MA program. Zoom link for the main events: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/86523798829 Zoom link for the graduate lunch: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82934523856 Below is […]

Global/Premodern/Race

McCune Conference Room

This symposium brings together scholars working in Iberian, Middle Eastern, and Medieval Studies to engage in a critical discussion concerning race—reevaluating both its utility as a category of analysis in […]

Haunting the Canon: The Super-phenomena in Art

LAIS is pleased to co-sponsor the Art History Graduate Student Association’s 45th annual symposium! This virtual symposium is an opportunity for students and scholars across the humanities to engage in […]

LAIS Career Panels and Alumni Reunion

Join the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program in its celebration of 40+  years of achievements and master’s theses, and learn from LAIS MA alumni about their professional careers in […]

LAIS End-of-Year Awards Ceremony

Join the 2021 Latin American and Iberian Studies End-of-Year Awards Ceremony to celebrate the achievements and hard work of LAIS majors, minors and graduate students, faculty and staff.  The ceremony […]

Social Mobilization and State Violence in Colombia

REGISTER: bit.ly/laiscolombia Since April 28, 2021, thousands of people have been protesting in Colombia to demand immediate changes and structural transformations that meet historically neglected social needs. The government has mainly […]

Weston Roundtable Series: How to Help Protect the Amazon

Register here for zoom link: https://go.wisc.edu/weston_silva Brazil’s former Minister of Environment, Marina Silva, will discuss the challenges we need to face in order to preserve the Amazon and its indigenous population […]

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 […]