University of California, Santa Barbara
Latin American and Iberian Studies Program
Please join us at the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we host Prof. Carlos Aguirre for a talk entitled “Censorship, Politics, and the Making of a Literary Classic: The Biography of Vargas Llosa’s La ciudad y los perros”. Abstract Mario Vargas Llosa’s first novel, La ciudad y los perros (Barcelona, 1963), […]
Please join us for a roundtable with Kathleen Bruhn (Political Science), Jeffrey Hoelle (Anthropology), Ana Caroline Moreno (Global Studies), João Sodré (Global Studies), and Amanda Pinheiro (Global Studies). Moderators: Paul Amar (Global Studies) and Cecilia Méndez (History and LAIS) Organized by the Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies and the Department of Global Studies.
Presentation of Víctor Fuentes’s new book *Antonio Machado en el siglo XXI: Nueva trilla de poesía, pensamiento y persona* and of the co-edited volume *A New History of Iberian Feminisms* by Silvia Bermúdez and Roberta Johnson This is a book presentation of work published by: 1) prestigious emeritus Professor Víctor Fuentes (Roberta Johnson, UCLA and […]
Please join our first Tertulia, a new LAIS forum for conversation, sharing, and debate. Our guest, Dr. Anabel Ford, will lecture on ”The MesoAmerican Research Center, and the Study of the Maya Forest Gardens of El Pilar” on Tuesday January 29th from 12:00 to 1:30 pm in HSSB 3041. Light refreshments will be served. Feel free […]
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 […]