Tuesdays, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
We will be offering lectures both live (206 Ingraham Hall + livestreamed via Facebook) and virtual (via Zoom) this fall. We plan to upload the recordings for all of the lectures to our YouTube channel.
Please note that we are requiring pre-registration and limiting attendance to 20 attendees for the live lectures.
Please see the details for each event to determine how it will be given (and to pre-register).
*We will be featuring several lectures as part of a special series entitled, “Countryside: Rural Latin America”
September 21: “Situacion Actual y Gestion del Desarrollo en Cusco-Peru” (Presented in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation)
Presented by Dr. Victor Boluarte Medina, Mayor of Cusco, Peru
Part of a special series entitled, “Countryside: Rural Latin America”
September 28: Qué les pasó a las Abejas? | What happened to the Bees? in Campeche, Mexico
Part of a special series entitled, “Countryside: Rural Latin America”
Presented by Adriana Otero, Director of the film distribution company ABEJAS CINE
October 5: “An Ice Age Art Gallery in Amazonia? – VIRTUAL
Presented by Jose Iriarte, Professor of Archaeology, Exeter University, and leading expert on the Amazon and pre-Columbian History | Ella Al-Shamahi, paleoanthropologist, National Geographic Explorer, evolutionary biologist, and stand-up comic. Moderated by Tinker Visiting Professor of History, German Palacio, lawyer at la Universidad del Rosario, Colombia.
Thank you to the Department of Anthropology for their co-sponsorship of this event!
October 12: “The Conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, 1521-2021: Domination and Oppression vs Resistance and Liberation” – IN PERSON, 206 INGRAHAM HALL
Presented by LACIS Honorary Fellow, Jesús (Chucho) Alvarado
Part of a special series entitled, “Countryside: Rural Latin America”
October 19: “The Urbanization of the Rural World. Water, Homes, and Territorial Transformations in the Tropics” – IN PERSON, 206 INGRAHAM HALL
Presented by Antonio Azuela de la Cueva, Researcher of Urban and Regional Studies, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Part of a special series entitled, “Countryside: Rural Latin America”
October 26: “ESCAPE TO DESPECIALIZATION: The shapes that art takes on the edges” – VIRTUAL
Presented by Alejandro Meitin
November 2: “Short Term Medical Missions to Central America” – VIRTUAL
Presented by Douglas Dulli, M.D., M.S. , UW-Madison, MD, MS.
November 9: “Contemporary art and poetry and the colonial archive in Brazil” – IN PERSON, 206 INGRAHAM HALL
Presented by Tinker Visiting Professor, Diana Klinger
November 16: “The Sacrificial deaths of Peccary and Puma: A Pan-Andean Ethnographic Theme?” – IN PERSON, 206 INGRAHAM HALL
Presented by Frank Salomon, John V. Murra Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa
November 30: “Ficciones endeudadas latinoamericanas: el poder mimético y ficcional de la deuda / Indebted Latin American Fictions: The Power of Debt” (presented in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation to English provided) – VIRTUAL
Presented by Karen Garcia Escorcia, PhD, UW-Madison
December 7: “Stopping the Next One: Chronicling the race to prevent the next pandemic” – LIVE IN 206 INGRAHAM
Presented by Jacob Kushner, international freelance journalist and UW-Madison LACIS/Journalism alum, and Dr. Karen B. Strier, Vilas Research Professor and Irven Devore Professor of Anthropology, and LACIS faculty affiliate, UW-Madison