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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 4020

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 ISIS. In doing so, they largely ignore the likelihood that antiquities extraction and site destruction is more related to issues of global economic development. This […]

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 ; 6020 HSSB, McCune Conference Room RECEPTION TO FOLLOW 5:00-6:30 PM In the face of deepening social and ecological crises, design is emerging as a vital […]

LAIS Undergraduate Student Conference 2019

Santa Barbara Harbor RoomUCen

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. According to the UN and Doctors Without Borders, an estimated 500,000 people flee Central America for Mexico and the US every year, and around 3 […]

SILENCED VOICES | XIX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference

Mosher Alumni House

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 research from different fields and co-related fields (Comparative Literature, Feminist and Queer Studies, Luso-Brazilian Literature, Spanish and Spanish American Literatures, Latin American and Iberian Studies, […]

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 research from different fields and co-related fields (Comparative Literature, Feminist and Queer Studies, Luso-Brazilian Literature, Spanish and Spanish American Literatures, Latin American and Iberian Studies, […]

“The House that Binds: Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Peru” Rachel Sarah O’Toole, UC Irvine

HSSB 4020

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, O’Toole reconstructs three women’s family histories from pieces of notarial records, parish entries, and judicial cases. She agrees that archival practices silence black subjects (Trulliot […]

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Criminalizing Immigrant Families: Race, Gender, and Family Separations at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Loma Pelona Conference Room

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 current administration’s use of family separation as a deterrent has led to an intense struggle to define migration, the migrant, and the family. This conference […]

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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 HSSB

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 the Americas and the Philippines to suit their vision of civilization. The early years of Iberian colonialism also coincided with a period of profound transformation […]

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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 HSSB

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). He is one of the world’s leading specialists in colonial Andean society, religion, music, and art, and the author of serval award winning books and […]

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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 House

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 a construct. Landscape can, in other words, serve as a screen to represent an abstract or ideological conception of the society that begets it. Such […]

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LAIS End of Year Picnic!

Goleta Beach Park

Please 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 due to all the hard work and dedication of the wonderful LAIS and PASC staff, and faculty. This event is a small show of appreciation […]

Welcome Lunch

State Street Room UCen

Join us for lunch and a chance to meet our new LAIS graduate students, and reconnect with other LAIS members. Lunch and beverages provided.