October 2022
LACIS Lunchtime Lecture Series: “Inca’s Hydraulics System and the Pre-Inca Stage”
Jose N. De Pierola About the presentation: De Pierola will provide a review of vestiges of hydraulic infrastructure from the pre-inca an Inca time, reviewing their capacities to manage water supply and how they addressed…
Find out more »LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “A Latinas Path into Oregon Wine”
Elena Rodriguez About the presentation: Elena will be discussing her journey of being the daughter of an immigrant, and how her father’s dreams changed the course of her life as an adult. She was also…
Find out more »LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “Between Brown and Black: Anti-Racist Activism in Brazil”
Dr. Antonio José Bacelar da Silva About the presentation: With new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black consciousness advocates are…
Find out more »LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “40 Days Without Food. The controversial public fast of Dr. Henry S. Tanner in New York, 1880”
Agustí Nieto-Galan About the presentation: In the late nineteenth century, hunger artists’ performances attracted considerable interest in Europe and America. Public fasting for 30-40 days progressively became a commodity in the urban marketplace which could…
Find out more »November 2022
LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “Play Throughout the Lifespan”
Presented in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation. About the presentation: About the presenters: Mercedes Gonzalez and Karen Haygood, LACIS alumna, and founder of Creando Little Language Learners Please Pre-register to attend via ZOOM HERE.
Find out more »“The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance”
Presented by Professor Mackenzie Cooley. About the presentation: Mackenzie Cooley is an intellectual historian who studies the uses, abuses, and understandings of the natural world in early modern science and medicine. Her first book, The Perfection…
Find out more »LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “The uncertain truth of the historical novel. Writing about Francisca Pizarro”
Alonso Cueto About the presentation: From my perspective as an author of a historical novel, I will discuss some ideas about truth and fiction. I will also talk about my current project, a novel about…
Find out more »LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: Book Presentation/Lecture: “Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers”
Ruth Conniff About the presentation: LACIS Honorary Fellow, Ruth Conniff, will present her recently-published book (July 2022), "Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers". About the presenter: Ruth Conniff…
Find out more »LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “Innovation cooperation to advance digital and sustainable development in Latin America”
Dr. Glauco Arbix About the presentation: Latin American countries are quite far from the technology frontier, and they may not be aware of the extent to which they lag. Evidence shows that technology development, adoption,…
Find out more »December 2022
LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “Territorial Remainders in Patricio Guzman’s Geographical Triptych”
About the presentation: On the eve of President Gabriel Boric’s recent inauguration the films Nostalgia de la Luz (2010), El Bóton de Nácar (2015), and Cordillera de los Sueños (2019) were shown on the television…
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