University of California, Santa Barbara
Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
The history of twentieth-century Peru is the history of the rural countryside, its governance, and the making of comunidades and campesinos as foundational elements of a social, economic, and political landscape. Throughout a number of decades, domestic state powers and transnational capital turned lands and pastures into battlegrounds of ideas about labor, property, and modernization […]
Edgardo Pérez Morales (Assistant Professor, History Department, USC), presents “Slavery, Irreverence, and Sovereignty in the Revolutionary Caribbean” as part of the History Department’s Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History. Cartagena de Indias, on the north coast of today’s Colombia, declared independence from Spain and extended citizenship to free men of color between 1812 and […]
While the dominant discourse of globalization emphasizes a borderless and more integrated world, communities and collectivities on the ground continue to organize against a different lived reality. Historically, scholars and activists alike, through various collectivites, spaces, and ideologies, have transgressed and disrupted mainstream globalizing networks and narratives that reinforce borders in the service of capitalism, […]
While the dominant discourse of globalization emphasizes a borderless and more integrated world, communities and collectivities on the ground continue to organize against a different lived reality. Historically, scholars and activists alike, through various collectivites, spaces, and ideologies, have transgressed and disrupted mainstream globalizing networks and narratives that reinforce borders in the service of capitalism, […]
A Roundtable with the Participation of Kathleen Bruhn (Political Science, UCSB) • Evelyne Laurent-Perrault (History, UCSB) • Juan Pablo Lupi (Spanish and Portuguese, UCSB) • Andreína Soto Segura (History, UCSB) TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26 – 12:00PM -1:30PM – HSSB 3041 Venezuela is in the news again. This time for two reasons: First, a humanitarian crisis of […]
Dr. 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 3:00 to 4:40 pm in Phelps 5309. All are invited. If interested in the readings to be discussed, please contact Gabriel Van Praag at gvanpraag@lais.ucsb.edu
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]