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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190223T083000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190223T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190222T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190222T143000
DTSTAMP:20260426T212041
CREATED:20190120T115416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210701T143808Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T183000
DTSTAMP:20260426T212041
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190130T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190130T173000
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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
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190129T133000
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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
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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
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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:20260426T212041
CREATED:20181008T082747Z
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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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