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LAIS Welcome Reception Fall 2020

Zoom

The Latin American & Iberian Studies Program, at UC Santa Barbara, invites faculty, students, staff and alumni to join us to meet our new members and connect with LAIS. Zoom Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/99766499556″>https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/99766499556 See the LAIS Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/1618757631629455″>https://www.facebook.com/events/1618757631629455″>www.facebook.com/events/1618757631629455″>https://www.facebook.com/events/1618757631629455 Schedule 2:00 Welcome by LAIS Director Cecilia Méndez 2:05 Self-introductions by PASC and LAIS Staff 2:10 Juan Cobo, LAIS […]

Ixil Maya Resistance against Megaprojects in Cotzal, Guatemala

Zoom

Join us to hear from Dr. Giovanni Batz (UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Davis) about “Ixil Maya Resistance against Megaprojects in Cotzal, Guatemala” Among the Ixil Maya of Guatemala, the arrival of megaprojects is referred to as the “new invasion”. This presentation examines a movement in Cotzal, Guatemala against the construction of the Palo Viejo […]

Lo propio es así: Raza y matiz racial en la República Dominicana

Zoom

“Lo propio es así: Raza y matiz racial en la República Dominicana”  Seis siglos de historia y de legados transatlánticos han dado forma a un entorno racial complejo en la República Dominicana y con el tiempo las categorías raciales dominicanas han generado tanto interés académico como controversia social. En esta presentación, la Dra. Wheeler, en […]

LAIS EAP Get-together

Zoom

Would you like to know more about other LAIS students’ study abroad experiences? Join us Friday, October 20, 2020, via Zoom, to hear from a panel of LAIS undergraduate and graduate students who have previously studied abroad. They will share their experiences and will answer any questions you may have. Join us via Zoom at: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/8058933161

Tertulia | Bolivia and Chile Today: Democracy Vindicated?

Watch a recording of this Tertulia here: https://youtu.be/28L30480tY0 Join us for a LAIS Tertulia in the Time of COVID, 2020-2021! After a tumultuous year of contested elections, street protests, and state repression, Bolivia and Chile have evidently reached important turning points in their democratic struggles. Is democracy back to stay? In this roundtable tertulia, one public […]

Tertulia: Social Movements, Identity, and Resistance in Contemporary Nicaragua

You can watch a recording of this Tertulia here: https://youtu.be/zXXfEU7ThzQ Join us for a LAIS Tertulia in the Time of COVID, 2020-2021! The people of Nicaragua have faced a series of compounding crises over the past decade: the growing authoritarianism of the Ortega-Murillo government, assaults on women’s and LGBT rights, colonization of indigenous and Afro-descendant communities’ […]

Tertulia | Race and Caste in Latin America, India, and the USA: A Global Conversation

Join us for a LAIS Tertulia in the Time of COVID, 2020-2021! In her widely acclaimed book Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson complicates the category of race, as it is commonly understood in the US, by bringing caste to the fore. She discusses the “caste” historical experience of the US in light […]

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 the schedule for the Winter 2021 virtual visit to UC Santa Barbara for students accepted into the LAIS MA program.

A Wave of Difference: Language Expression in the Argentine Feminist Imaginary

Join this LAIS co-sponsored event to hear from Nicolas Cuello (National University of La Plata, Argentina). Link: https://tinyurl.com/ve3fxb6c (Passcode: argentina) In the context of a disproportionate increase in sexual violence against cis, trans, and transvestite women since 2015, Argentine feminisms have prefigured the untimely irruption of public space in both process and form. The movements; interventions not […]

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 the premodern world and how it has structured medieval and early modern studies as academic fields. Register via email by March 19, 2021, for this […]

International Graduate Student Conference: Borders, Power and Transgression

A border is what separates things, and the border’s very existence is inseparable both from the power that sustains it and from the possibility of its transgression. In recent years, the relationship between borders—political, geographical and symbolic—and State power has taken on a special significance in the public arena. Transgression, for its part, is an […]

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 a critical dialogue while maintaining a focus on images and material objects. This year’s theme asks participants to challenge colonialist conceptions of mystical, spiritual, and […]