Carlos Aguirre at the Colloquium for Latin American and Caribbean History

HSSB 4020

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), […]

The rise of Bolsonaro in Brazil: how did it happen, and what to expect next

SSMS 2001

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 and Silvia Bermúdez new book

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 […]

The MesoAmerican Research Center, and the Study of the Maya Forest Gardens of El Pilar

HSSB 3041

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 […]

“Agrarian Quests: The Search for Comunidades and Campesinos in Rural Peru.”

HSSB 4020

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 at the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History. “Slavery, irreverence, and sovereignty in the revolutionary Caribbean”.

HSSB 4020

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 […]

SGS Transgressing Fortified Global Borders Conference

Mosher Alumni House

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, […]

SGS Transgressing Fortified Global Borders Conference

Mosher Alumni House

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, […]

LAIS Tertulia: Understanding Venezuela’s Crisis

HSSB 3041

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 […]