Tinker visiting professor Sebastian Valenzuela has been analyzing the effects of social media on political engagement for the past five years. However, in his lecture, he immediately acknowledges that the way people use social media …
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Genetics in the Conservation Biology of the Andean Condor
At the size of a medium dog, the Condor is the largest flying bird in the world. For 100s of years, the birds have a documented relationship first with indigenous people in South America, to colonizers, to …
“Inequalities and digital Media in the mobile era: The case of Chile”
This we closed off our weekly LACIS guest lecture series with speaker Teresa Correa, associate professor in the school of Communication at Diego Portales University, in Chile. Teresa spoke of her research in Chile meant …
Peace, Freedom, and the Politics of Culture in Early Cold War Latin American
Assistant Professor Patrick Iber led the lecture on his book Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America, which was published by Harvard University Press in October 2015 and won the 2017 Luciano Tomassini …
“In Thy Tent I Dwell” by Artist Jonatas Chimen
Jonatas Chimen is our first ever annual distinguished LACIS Alumni in residence. Chimen has a BA degree in LACIS and found it very applicable to his artwork and journey. Chimen is a Brazilian American artist …
Associate Professor, Pablo F. Gómez on his Award-Winning book The Experiential Caribbean
We spoke with the author of the award-winning book, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic, PhD. Pablo F Gomez, who is an Associate Professor of the History of Medicine …
The Nicaraguan Crisis & the Reality of its Indigenous Population
In this week’s LACIS lecture series we had guest speaker Alex Fernandez, former mayor of a village in Waspam, Nicaragua discuss the Nicaraguan crisis as well as the reality of the indigenous people living in …
“Killing Two Condors with One Stone: The War on Drugs, Counterinsurgency, and the State of Siege in Northwestern Mexico”
In this week’s LACIS lecture we had guest speaker Adela Cedillo, Ph.D. candidate in Latin American History at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Adela spoke on the intersections between the Dirty War and the War …
The Challenges of Making Peace in Colombia
After a brutal 50-year conflict, resulting in the deaths of 177,307 civilians and the displacement of over 5 million people, Colombia’s path to peace is convoluted and painstakingly slow. The panel, ‘THE CHALLENGES OF MAKING …
Getting a Perspective on U.S. Politics From Mexico
In this week’s lecture series, we had guest speaker Ruth Conniff an American journalist who has written for The New York Times and is editor-in-chief of The Progressive. She spoke on her experience living outside …