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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]