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 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, […]