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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 […]

Free

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.

Robespierre de Oliveira, “The State of the Opposition in Brazil”

SS&MS 2135

With the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma in 2016 the right and extreme right came to power as the opposition split. Dr. Oliveira will show how Brazilian politics have turned upside down, from social policies to private ones, from economic growth to decline, and from an open and diverse society to one that is more […]

Free

Documentary Screening – Emilia: An Untold Cuban American Story (2017)

McCune Conference Room HSSB 6020

Filmmaker and producer Luis Pérez Tolón and Cuban expert Professor Lillian Manzor (University of Miami) will be at hand to contextualize the 40 minutes film and answer questions. *The film narrates the story of Emilia Teurbe Tolón, the first woman deported from Cuba for political insurgency. Ahead of her time and a role model for […]

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“Transcorporeality in Black Atlantic Religions”, a talk with Roberto Strongman

Department of Black Studies Conference Room (South Hall)

Roberto Strongman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This presentation establishes Transcorporeality as the distinct Afro-Diasporic cultural representation of the human psyche as multiple, removable and external to a body that functions as its receptacle. This unique view of the body, preserved in its […]

Lecture “Pop Music Before The Pop Era Spanish Music in the US Early Recording Industry (1896-1914)” by Professor Kiko Mora

Phelps 2524

Professor Kiko Mora (Ph.D. The Ohio State University) is professor of the Semiotics of Advertising and Culture Industries in the Department of Communication and Social Psychology at the Universidad de Alicante (Spain).  Since 2010, his main research focus has been investigating Spanish music and dance in musical theater, early cinema, and early recording industry in the […]

Protests and Politics in Latin America: What is new in Chile and Colombia?

McCune Conference Room HSSB 6020

Join us to learn more about the current political situations and ongoing protests in Chile and Colombia. A round table discussion will be lead by Javiera Barandiarán (Director, EAP in Chile & Argentina, Professor, Global Studies, UCSB), Kathleen Bruhn (Professor & Chair, Political Science, UCSB), Pilar Ramírez Restrepo (Graduate Student, History, UCSB), Diego Silva (Postdoctoral […]

History of Art and Architecture 2019-2020 Lecture Series: Making. “Were They Enslaved? A New Look at Maya Figurines”

Arts 1332 (History of Art & Architecture Conference Room)

Please join the LAIS Community in attending the Department of History of Art and Architecture’s public lecture “Were They Enslaved? A New Look at Maya Figurines”, delivered by Mary Miller (Director, The Getty Research Institute) Maya figurines of the 8th century from the island of Jaina, off Yucatan, Mexico, long admired for their lifelike, poignant, […]

Coronavirus and Historical Patterns of Epidemics in Latin America

Zoom

A Zoom Talk by Dr. Marcos Cueto Wednesday, May 13, at 12 pm – 1:30 pm (PST), via Zoom Abstract. Historical studies on epidemics in Latin America have magnified fragilities in public health structures, revealed the vulnerability of the poor and discovered cases of heroism under adversity. They have also identified an historical trend –revived […]