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September 2021
LACIS’ Fall Meet & Greet + Opportunities in Spanish-speaking Countries (with study abroad)
Did you know that UW-Madison offers an undergraduate degree, Master's, MA/JD, and Phd Minor in Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS)? Come and meet our friendly and helpful staff and see if the LACIS…
Find out more »“What happened to the bees? A documentary on the environmental conflict of the cultivation of transgenic soybeans in Mayan territory”
Adriana Otero Puerto About the presentation: Presentation on the negative impact of the cultivation of transgenic soybeans in the Mayan territory of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, such as the massive death of bees, the…
Find out more »October 2021
Lecture: “An Ice Age Art Gallery in Amazonia?”
Ella Al-Shamahi / BBC Natural History Unit (Clare Jones) Jose Iriarte Presented by: Presented by Jose Iriarte and Ella Al-Shamahi. Josie Iriarte is a Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter. Iriarte…
Find out more »“The Conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, 1521-2021: Domination and Oppression vs Resistance and Liberation”
Jesús Alvarado About the presentation: The presentation discusses the conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, its consequence within the context of the colonial order established by Spain, its parallels and continuities with the present situation in the American…
Find out more »“The Urbanization of the Rural World. Water, Homes, and Territorial Transformations in the Tropics”
Antonio Azuela About the presentation: The session will examine the changing meaning and function of the ejido as a form of property in the rural world. This will be linked to the analysis of urbanization…
Find out more »“ESCAPE TO DESPECIALIZATION The shapes that art takes on the edges”
Alejandro Meitin About the presentation: In my presentation I will focus on certain transdisciplinary initiatives that integrate the artistic way of thinking and action in their constitution and development, analyzing some examples of which I…
Find out more »November 2021
Lecture: “Short Term Medical Missions to Central America”
Douglas Dulli, MD, MS Presented by: Douglas Dulli, MD, MS About the speaker: I am a recently retired professor of Neurology and former director of the MEDiC Student-Run Free Clinic program. I have as an…
Find out more »Lecture: “Contemporary art and poetry and the colonial archive in Brazil”
Diana Klinger Presented by Tinker Visiting Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Diana Klinger About the presenter: Diana Klinger is Associate Professor of Literary Theory at Universidade Federal Fluminense. She has a research productivity scholarship from…
Find out more »“The Sacrificial deaths of Peccary and Puma: A Pan-Andean Ethnographic Theme?”
Frank Salomon Description of the talk: From the Ecuadorian Andes in the 1970s and in the Peruvian central Andes in the 2000's, a surprising unity appears in the sphere of ritual drama. In both places…
Find out more »“Ficciones endeudadas latinoamericanas: el poder mimético y ficcional de la deuda” (presented in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation)
Karen Garcia Escorcia About the presentation: In this lecture, I will explore functions of debt as a literary motive in cultural productions from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Cuba. I will argue that debts are used…
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