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SUMMARY:Welcome Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for lunch and a chance to meet our new LAIS graduate students\, and reconnect with other LAIS members. Lunch and beverages provided.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/welcome-lunch/
LOCATION:State Street Room UCen
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190510T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190510T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T162119Z
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SUMMARY:LAIS End of Year Picnic!
DESCRIPTION: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 for you all. Please RSVP as soon as possible to sarahzamir@ucsb.edu\, and please list any dietary restrictions if applicable. \n\nThis event will be held at Goleta Beach in the Picnic Area equipped with tables.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/lais-end-of-year-picnic/
LOCATION:Goleta Beach Park
CATEGORIES:LAIS
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190508T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190508T153000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190507T154006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T161718Z
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SUMMARY:Antithetical Landscapes in Spanish and Catalan Nationalism By Prof. Joan Ramon Resina - Stanford University
DESCRIPTION: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 projections can turn an actual landscape into an idea\, or they can idealize social relations in representations of the landscape. This lecture will examine the role of the landscape in the formalization of the two major ideas of nation in the Iberian Peninsula at the turn of the XIXth century\, namely the myth of Castile created by the writers of the Generation of ’98 and the ideal of a classic Catalan country theorized by noucentisme’s primary spokesman Eugeni d’Ors.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/antithetical-landscapes-in-spanish-and-catalan-nationalism-by-prof-joan-ramon-resina-stanford-university/
LOCATION:Sara Miller McCune Library at the Mosher House
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190507T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190507T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
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SUMMARY:Juan Carlos Estenssoro's “The inescapable Indian: Yungas\, chunchos and serranos in the geographical\, social and pictorial imaginings of Perú\, 16th through 18th centuries.”
DESCRIPTION:Juan Carlos Estenssoro is an historian and professor of Iberian and Latin American Studies at l’Université Paris\, where he also directs the Center for Research on Colonial Spanish America (CRAEC). He is one of the world’s leading specialists in colonial Andean society\, religion\, music\, and art\, and the author of serval award winning books and articles. His pathbreaking book Del paganismo a la santidad: La incorporación de los indios del Perú al catolicismo (1532-1750) (Lima\, 2003)\, is considered a classic. Other books include Música y sociedad coloniales: Lima 1680-1830 (Lima\, 1989)\, and\, with other collaborators\, La Música en el Perú (1985\, 1989\, 2007). The lecture will delivered in Spanish with an interpreter from 4:00 to 5:30 pm. It will be followed by a short break and an extended Q and A session until 7:00 pm. Refreshments will be served. This event is organized by LAIS and the History Department with generous cosponsorship from the office of the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts. \n\nRead his work!
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/juan-carlos-estenssoros-the-inescapable-indian-yungas-chunchos-and-serranos-in-the-geographical-social-and-pictorial-imaginings-of-peru-16th-through-18th-centuries/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room 6th Floor HSSB
CATEGORIES:Bilingual,Historian,Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190506T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190506T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190424T152829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T154253Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Professor Juan and Natalie Cobo's La legislación de la arquidiócesis de Santafé en el periodo colonial [The legislation of the archdiocese of Santafé in the colonial period]
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nThe Catholic Church played a central role in shaping how early modern Spaniards arranged their own lives and attempted to transform those of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the Philippines to suit their vision of civilization. The early years of Iberian colonialism also coincided with a period of profound transformation within the Catholic Church — catalysed by the Reformation — which sought to centralize and homogenize its own practices. Because the reforms introduced by the Church in this period\, spearheaded by the Council of Trent\, were orientated towards the situation in Europe\, ecclesiastics in the New World\, who confronted a vastly different range of issues\, had great freedoms to adapt and develop the spirit of these changes to local circumstances. A key way in which they did so was through the production of ecclesiastical legislation\, whether issued individually by bishops or in assemblies of clerics such as synods and provincial councils. \nThis book contains the first critical edition of all of the ecclesiastical legislation promulgated during the colonial period in the archdiocese of Santafé in the New Kingdom of Granada\, a vast region covering much of the territory of modern-day Colombia. It brings together the constitutions of the first and second synod of Santafé\, of 1556 and 1606\, the influential Catechism and instructions of fray Luis Zapata de Cárdenas\, composed in 1576\, and the never before published constitutions of the first and only provincial council held there during the colonial period\, in 1625. This legislation was essential to the development of the Church in the region\, and particularly the evangelization of indigenous people\, and therefore provides key insights into how colonial society was constructed and consolidated in this period. Moreover\, because the authors of these texts worked not in isolation but by drawing on a multitude of legal\, theological\, and pastoral sources that originated in different places and moments\, in a complex process of translation and adaptation\, the book explores what these texts reveal about how knowledge and ideas circulated in the early modern world\, and the place that the New Kingdom of Granada occupied in the networks of exchange and communication that connected it. \nThis edition\, with an extensive introduction\, critical apparatus\, and a translation into Spanish of Latin texts\, aims to make these important sources available to a much broader community of scholars in order to open this field to new research. \nThe book will be presented\, in Spanish\, by Juan Carlos Estenssoro\, professor and director of the Center for Research on Colonial Spanish America of l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle\, Paris 3\, and Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi\, associate professor of History and director of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program at UCSB. The panel will be moderated by Juan Pablo Lupi\, associate professor of in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCSB. \nAbout the authors: \nJuan Cobo Betancourt is assistant professor of history at UCSB. He completed his BA\, MPhil\, and PhD in history at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on questions of race\, language\, law\, and religion in the New Kingdom of Granada\, and seek to situate the study of this region in a broader geographic and temporal context\, while taking advantage of the region’s distinctive position to explore key themes in early modern social and cultural history. His first book\, Mestizos heraldos de Dios (2012)\, was also published by the Colombian Institute of History and Anthropology. \nNatalie Cobo is an historian and translator of early modern Latin texts. She completed her BA and MPhil in Classics at the University of Cambridge\, and is currently a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford\, where she focuses on questions of religion\, law\, and ethnology in the 16th and 17th-century Philippines. She is also translating the second volume of Juan de Solórzano y Pereira’s De Indiarum Iure\, entitled De gubernatione (1629) from Latin into Spanish and English at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. \nThey are both co-founders of Fundación Histórica Neogranadina\, a Colombian non-profit foundation devoted to rescuing\, preserving\, and sharing Latin America’s historical manuscripts and early printed books through digitization\, and promoting the development of digital humanities projects in the region (https://neogranadina.org). \nAbout the guest discussant: \nJuan Carlos Estenssoro is an historian and professor of Iberian and Latin American Studies at l’Université Paris 3\, Sorbonne Nouvelle\, where he also directs the Center for Research on Colonial Spanish America (CRAEC) . He is one of the world leading specialists in colonial Andean society\, religion\, music\, and art\, and the author of serval award winning books and articles. His pathbreaking book Del paganismo a la santidad: La incorporación de los indios del Perú al catolicismo (1532-1750) (Lima\, 2003)\, is considered a classic. Other books include Música y sociedad coloniales: Lima 1680-1830 (Lima\, 1989)\, and\, with other collaborators\, La Música en el Perú (1985\, 1989\, 2007). \nThis event is organized by LAIS and the History Department with generous cosponsorship from the office of the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts. \n*** This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a dinner reception.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/book-launch-professor-juan-and-natalie-cobos-la-legislacion-de-la-arquidiocesis-de-santafe-en-el-periodo-colonial-the-legislation-of-the-archdiocese-of-santafe-in-the-colonial-period/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room 6th Floor HSSB
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Event,Public
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190503T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190503T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190426T134155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T153435Z
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SUMMARY:Criminalizing Immigrant Families: Race\, Gender\, and Family Separations at the U.S.-Mexico Border
DESCRIPTION:Race and gender have shaped the law\, public policy\, and the emotional and physical experiences of migration throughout history.  At the present moment\, however\, shifting patterns of migration and the current administration’s use of family separation as a deterrent has led to an intense struggle to define migration\, the migrant\, and the family. This conference explores these struggles on both sides of the border from historical and contemporary perspectives. \nThis event is free to the public and is Co-Sponsored by LAIS.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/criminalizing-immigrant-families-race-gender-and-family-separations-at-the-u-s-mexico-border/
LOCATION:Loma Pelona Conference Room
CATEGORIES:Conference,History
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190501T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190501T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190426T132955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T153050Z
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SUMMARY:"The House that Binds: Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Peru" Rachel Sarah O'Toole\, UC Irvine
DESCRIPTION:The Household that Binds: Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Peru Talk by Rachel Sarah O’Toole (UC Irvine) \nTo 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 1997) and recreate violence on black subjectivities (Fuentes 2016)\, But also wonders if historians can do more to counteract colonial logics of criminal and civil archives. In her presentation\, Rachel Sarah O’Toole demonstrates how manumitting and freed women countered affective labor demands of seventeenth century slaveholders. This study focuses on the Colonial city of Trujillo\, on the Northern Peruvian coast. \n*Light refreshments served* \nEvent Co-Sponsored by LAIS
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/the-house-that-binds-slavery-and-freedom-in-colonial-peru-rachel-sarah-otoole-uc-irvine/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190419T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190419T090000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190120T121711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T143911Z
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SUMMARY:SILENCED VOICES | XIX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference
DESCRIPTION: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\, Chicanx Literature\, Linguistics\, Applied Linguistics\, and Translation Studies)\, this conference provides the opportunity to UCSB Graduate Students and other campuses in California and out of state to share their research papers not only amongst their colleagues but also amongst the Faculty across campus. It is a prolific and healthy environment of debate and exchange of ideas. The conference has been a success in the past years.  \n\n\n\n\nKeynote Speaker: Dr. Jorge Pérez (University of Texas at Austin) \nCo-sponsorships are: the Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, the Center for Portuguese Studies\, the Graduate Student Association\, the LAIS Program and the UC Humanities and Fine Arts.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/silenced-voices-xix-hispanic-and-lusophone-conference-2/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190418T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190418T090000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190120T121732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T143929Z
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SUMMARY:SILENCED VOICES | XIX Hispanic and Lusophone Conference
DESCRIPTION: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\, Chicanx Literature\, Linguistics\, Applied Linguistics\, and Translation Studies)\, this conference provides the opportunity to UCSB Graduate Students and other campuses in California and out of state to share their research papers not only amongst their colleagues but also amongst the Faculty across campus. It is a prolific and healthy environment of debate and exchange of ideas. The conference has been a success in the past years.  \n\n\n\n\nKeynote Speaker: Dr. Jorge Pérez (University of Texas at Austin) \nCo-sponsorships are: the Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, the Center for Portuguese Studies\, the Graduate Student Association\, the LAIS Program and the UC Humanities and Fine Arts.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/silenced-voices-xix-hispanic-and-lusophone-conference/
LOCATION:Mosher Alumni House
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190410T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190411T000000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190408T180112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210704T174222Z
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SUMMARY:LAIS Undergraduate Student Conference 2019
DESCRIPTION: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 million people have left Venezuela since 2014. Every year\, Spain and Portugal receive thousands of refugees from conflict-ravaged regions in Africa and the Middle East. This situation impacts local communities\, national politics\, and transnational relations\, and has fostered political extremism\, exploitation\, and organized crime. Climate change will aggravate this problem in coming decades\, as land and resources become scarcer.\n\nThis academic conference aims to bring together undergraduate students from California for a discussion on Displacements: peoples\, politics\, and rights in Latin America and the Iberian World. We welcome papers and presentations from different disciplines across the social and natural sciences\, the humanities\, and the arts that address the theme of displacements\, broadly understood: the displacement of peoples\, but also of cultures\, objects\, and ideas.\n\n\n\n\nConference Program P1\n\n\n\nConference Program\, Weds 4/10\, P2\nConference Program\, Thurs 4/11\, P3\nConference Program\, P4
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/lais-undergraduate-student-conference-2019/
LOCATION:Santa Barbara Harbor RoomUCen
CATEGORIES:Conference,LAIS,undergraduate
ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Zamir":MAILTO:sarahzamir@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190307T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190307T183000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190301T204336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T151342Z
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SUMMARY:Dean's Lecture Series: Arturo Escobar (Major Lecture & Reception)
DESCRIPTION:Healing the Web of Life:Autonomous Transition Design as Political-Ontological Praxis \nArturo Escobar:\nPractitioner-in-Residence\, UC Santa Barbara\nKenan Distinguished Professor of\nAnthropology Emeritus\, UNC \nThursday\, March 7\, 2019 3:30 5:00 PM ;\n6020 HSSB\, McCune Conference Room\nRECEPTION TO FOLLOW 5:00-6:30 PM \nIn the face of deepening social and ecological crises\, design is emerging as a vital domain of praxis that engages these crises by imagining and organizing alternative life worlds. This confers upon design/ing an ineluctable ontological-political dimension. This lecture outlines the constructive reorientation of design as a praxis meant to heal the web of life\, and describes the early stages of application of what we are calling “autonomous transition design” in the Cauca River Valley in Southwest Colombia.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/deans-lecture-series-arturo-escobar-major-lecture-reception/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190306T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190306T183000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190120T120611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T151256Z
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SUMMARY:Cultural Heritage and Community: Protecting the Past for the Future in the Moche Valley\, Peru. Alicia Boswell\, History of Art and Architecture\, UCSB
DESCRIPTION: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 talk addresses the global and national socioeconomic pressures connected to heritage destruction in Peru and highlights a model implemented to combat archaeological site destruction in the Moche Valley\, Peru by Moche Inc\, a nonprofit organization that Boswell collaborates with. This model\, which engages local communities in heritage preservation and development projects demonstrates that the benefits of conserving archaeological sites can extend beyond site preservation and tourism opportunities. Community collaboration and protection of archaeological sites can contribute to economic opportunities and long-term community development.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/cultural-heritage-and-community-protecting-the-past-for-the-future-in-the-moche-valley-peru-alicia-boswell-history-of-art-and-architecture-ucsb/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190306T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190306T164500
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190301T100005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T150959Z
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SUMMARY:Arturo Escobar in LAIS 200
DESCRIPTION: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
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/arturo-escobar-in-lais-200/
LOCATION:PHELPS 5309
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190226T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190226T133000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190213T202951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T150818Z
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SUMMARY:LAIS Tertulia: Understanding Venezuela’s Crisis
DESCRIPTION:A Roundtable with the Participation of \nKathleen Bruhn (Political Science\, UCSB) • Evelyne Laurent-Perrault (History\, UCSB) • \n Juan Pablo Lupi (Spanish and Portuguese\, UCSB) • Andreína Soto Segura (History\, UCSB) \nTUESDAY FEBRUARY 26 – 12:00PM -1:30PM –  HSSB 3041 \nVenezuela is in the news again. This time for two reasons: First\, a humanitarian crisis of hemispheric proportions\, in which hyperinflation and a widespread scarcity of food and medicines has caused the displacement of over 3 million people from Venezuela to Colombia\, Ecuador\, Perú\, Chile and Brazil. Second\, a political crisis in which—at the time these lines are being written—there are two parallel governments in conflict. The possible outcomes of this confrontation are impossible to predict\, and they range from a transition to democracy to the outbreak of a civil war. The goal of this roundtable is to explain the reasons behind these events and help us understand them. Invoking traditional paradigms like “left” vs. “right” or “US interventionism” will not get us very far. Both crises should be understood both in the context of 21st century geopolitics (the South American region\, Cuba\, Russia\, China\, the US\, Europe and even organized crime have major stakes here)\, and in a historical context that is attentive to how the modern Venezuelan state was built since the beginning of the 20th century. \n** Light refreshments will be served. Please feel free to bring your lunch.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/lais-tertulia-understanding-venezuelas-crisis/
LOCATION:HSSB 3041
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190223T083000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190223T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190120T115405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T143705Z
UID:1735-1550910600-1550948400@lais.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:SGS Transgressing Fortified Global Borders Conference
DESCRIPTION: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\, heteronormativity\, patriarchy\, and the state.  Global transgressions\, which we define as disobedience to the foundations of globalization thinking that rely on borders and institutions\, manifest in both theory and praxis. Through this\, these transgressive actors and forces explore and challenge spatial colonialities that raise and/or uphold such borders. \nThis conference allows for the imagining of freedoms as a place\, not confined or restricted by borders\, but instead shaped by all the people\, philosophies\, and movements that defy them. \nThus\, the 2019 Society for Global Scholars conference is a call for scholars\, activists\, social movements\, and students to regroup\, rethink\, and respond to the current discourse surrounding borders and explore spatial colonialities\, while highlighting and discovering Global South voices and subjectivities. \nThe conference will feature keynote presentations by renowned activist-scholars Dr. Stephen Dillon and Dr. Vilna Bashi-Treitler\, as well as opening remarks by Dr. Bishnupriya Ghosh and closing remarks by Dean Charles Hale. There will also be a book sale by PM Press\, Verso Books\, and Haymarket Books along with a workshop on scholar-activistism by Dr. Emiko Saldivar\, an art exhibit and conversation regarding art-ivism.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/sgs-transgressing-fortified-global-borders-conference-2/
LOCATION:Mosher Alumni House
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190222T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190222T143000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190120T115416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T143808Z
UID:1720-1550822400-1550845800@lais.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:SGS Transgressing Fortified Global Borders Conference
DESCRIPTION: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\, heteronormativity\, patriarchy\, and the state.  Global transgressions\, which we define as disobedience to the foundations of globalization thinking that rely on borders and institutions\, manifest in both theory and praxis. Through this\, these transgressive actors and forces explore and challenge spatial colonialities that raise and/or uphold such borders. \nThis conference allows for the imagining of freedoms as a place\, not confined or restricted by borders\, but instead shaped by all the people\, philosophies\, and movements that defy them. \nThus\, the 2019 Society for Global Scholars conference is a call for scholars\, activists\, social movements\, and students to regroup\, rethink\, and respond to the current discourse surrounding borders and explore spatial colonialities\, while highlighting and discovering Global South voices and subjectivities. \nThe conference will feature keynote presentations by renowned activist-scholars Dr. Stephen Dillon and Dr. Vilna Bashi-Treitler\, as well as opening remarks by Dr. Bishnupriya Ghosh and closing remarks by Dean Charles Hale. There will also be a book sale by PM Press\, Verso Books\, and Haymarket Books along with a workshop on scholar-activistism by Dr. Emiko Saldivar\, an art exhibit and conversation regarding art-ivism.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/sgs-transgressing-fortified-global-borders-conference/
LOCATION:Mosher Alumni House
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T183000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190120T183749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T150025Z
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SUMMARY:Edgardo Pérez Morales at the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History. "Slavery\, irreverence\, and sovereignty in the revolutionary Caribbean".
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCartagena 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 1815. Hundreds of Afro-Caribbean sailors flocked to this port town\, where they obtained nominal citizenship and jobs as privateers—pirates with a license to attack Spanish shipping out at sea. Because Cartagena leaders saw their privateering policy as an “act of sovereignty\,” this talk asks how exactly common sailors—the main protagonists of this story—embodied political sovereignty at sea and on land. Cartagena’s privateers throw into relief the history of sovereignty as practice; these maritime workers used irreverent talk\, ambivalent political belonging\, and dynamic connections with the Republic of Haiti to build the first Spanish American experiment in maritime republicanism. This untold story may thus reveal the origins of multi-ethnic\, plurilingual and border-crossing citizenship.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/edgardo-perez-morales-at-the-colloquium-on-latin-american-and-caribbean-history-slavery-irreverence-and-sovereignty-in-the-revolutionary-caribbean/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020
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DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
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SUMMARY:"Agrarian Quests: The Search for Comunidades and Campesinos in Rural Peru."
DESCRIPTION: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 at large. In turn\, clashing visions of power placed comunidades and campesinos at the center of their responses to enduring uncertainties and anxieties on the economic exploitation and sociopolitical control of the country. Hacendados\, engineers\, intellectuals\, corporations\, political parties\, the military\, among others\, contended and disputed the meaning of being a comunidad and a campesino. Ultimately\, a civil war brought the search to a violent end\, revealing the extent\, limitations\, and failures of the rural making of a nation-state. \nJavier Puente holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University and currently serves as assistant professor of Andean history at the Instituto de Historia of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. \nThis lecture presented as part of the LAIS 200 graduate seminar. It is free and open to the campus community. A small reception follows the talk. Students interested in discussing further Dr. Puente’s work after the reception are encouraged to contact the LAIS Program Director at mendez@lais.ucsb.edu to get the reading materials. \n*LAIS thanks the generous co-sponsorship of the Departments of History and Global Studies\, and the Global Environmental Justice Project to this event.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/agrarian-quests-the-search-for-comunidades-and-campesinos-in-rural-peru/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190129T120000
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CREATED:20190120T101744Z
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SUMMARY:The MesoAmerican Research Center\, and the Study of the Maya Forest Gardens of El Pilar
DESCRIPTION: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 to bring your lunch!  This event is free and open to the public. \nThe MesoAmerican Research Center (MARC) is part of the Institute of Social\, Behavioral\, and Economic Research at UCSB and was established in 1988. Dr. Anabel Ford\, MARC’s founder and director\, is an anthropologist affiliated with LAIS and the author\, with Rondald Nigh\, of The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millenia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands (Londond and New York: Routledge\, New Frontiers in Historical Ecology Series\, 2015). You can read the book descrption here: https://www.routledge.com/The-Maya-Forest-Garden-Eight-Millennia-of-Sust… \nHer presentation will summarize 30 years of research in MARC\, highlighting opportunities available for undergraduates and graduate students interested in Mesoamerica and the Maya in particular\, with reference to her research in the Maya forest of Belize and Guatemala focused at the ancient Maya city she found\, El Pilar. The presentation will include a 20-minute video produced by UCSB (http://www.news.ucsb.edu/archaeology-under-canopy) with discussion to follow. \nThe MARC was originally established in 1988 to launch the interdisciplinary conference “The Language of Maya Hieroglyphs.” Faculty from Anthropology\, Art History\, Linguistics\, and History collaborated to bring in the top scholars addressing writing decipherment and the Maya. Collaborations continue with Art History\, examining iconography of Maya vases; with Geology\, researching the use of volcanic ash temper in Maya ceramics\, and with Geography in the spatial distribution of ancient Maya sites\, and the study of soil and vegetation of the Maya forest. Currently\, funding from Middle Ages World Wide supported the collaborative launching of the Maya Forest Atlas and interns drawing Geography and Anthropology have been able to help in the continued development of this rich interdisciplinary database available at  http://marc-ucsb.opendata.arcgis.com/ \nFor more information about the center go to http://www.marc.ucsb.edu
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/the-mesoamerican-research-center-and-the-study-of-the-maya-forest-gardens-of-el-pilar/
LOCATION:HSSB 3041
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190122T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190122T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20190120T100758Z
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SUMMARY:Presentation of Víctor Fuentes and Silvia Bermúdez new book
DESCRIPTION: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 \n\n\n\n\nThis is a book presentation of work published by: \n1) prestigious emeritus Professor Víctor Fuentes (Roberta Johnson\, UCLA and Kansas University will do his book presentation; and \n2) the groundbreaking volume **A New History of Iberian Feminism** by S &P and LAIS colleague Silvia Bermúdez along with her mentor Roberta Johnson (María Herrera-Sobek\, Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion and Professor of Chicana will present the volume. \nDinner is by rsvp only\, please respond by January 14\, 2019
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/presentation-of-victor-fuentes-and-silvia-bermudez-new-book-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181203T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181203T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20181126T204712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T143948Z
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SUMMARY:The rise of Bolsonaro in Brazil: how did it happen\, and what to expect next
DESCRIPTION: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). \nModerators: Paul Amar (Global Studies) and Cecilia Méndez (History and LAIS) \nOrganized by the Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies and the Department of Global Studies.
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/the-rise-of-bolsonaro-in-brazil-how-did-it-happen-and-what-to-expect-next/
LOCATION:SSMS 2001
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181005T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181005T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T095807
CREATED:20181008T082747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T130615Z
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SUMMARY:Carlos Aguirre at the Colloquium for Latin American and Caribbean History
DESCRIPTION: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”.\n  \nAbstract\nMario Vargas Llosa’s first novel\, La ciudad y los perros (Barcelona\, 1963)\, marked the beginning of the author’s outstanding literary career but also\, according to many\, of the “Latin American boom\,” a literary\, political\, and publishing phenomenon that changed the landscape of Latin American and world literature. A novel about a group of adolescents in a military school in Lima that was widely read as a critique of Peruvian militaristic\, machista\, and authoritarian culture\, it became an almost instant classic but was also involved in a series of literary and political controversies. Exploring the role of literary and friendship networks\, the Spanish publishing industry\, the negotiations with Franco’s censorship office\, the scandals that surrounded its reception\, and the political climate of the time\, this talk will reconstruct the process by which the manuscript of a novel written by an almost unknown author became a powerful literary\, cultural\, and political artifact.\n  \nAbout\nCarlos Aguirre is Professor of History at the University of Oregon and the author or editor of several books on slavery and abolition\, crime and punishment\, intellectuals\, and the history of Lima. His most recent publications include The Peculiar Revolution. Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment under Military Rule\, co-edited with Paulo Drinot (2017) and Bibliotecas y Cultura Letrada en América Latina. Siglos XIX y XX\, co-edited with Ricardo Salvatore (2018). For more information on professor Aguirre’s works\, see https://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~caguirre/home.html.\n  \nWith support from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, the History Department Colloquium Committee\, the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program\, and the Program in Comparative Literature
URL:https://lais.ucsb.edu/event/carlos-aguirre-at-the-colloquium-for-latin-american-and-caribbean-history/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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