September 2017
“Land use change and oasis bird communities in the Atacama desert”
About the speaker: Dr. Cristian Estrades is Full Professor of the Faculty of Forest Science at the Universidad de Chile. His research is focus on aspects like ecology and conservation of wildlife, landscape ecology,…
Find out more »October 2017
“Women and the Construction of Peace in Colombia”
By: Carol Rojas Feminist Antimilitarist Network. Hosted by Witness for Peace Carol is a popular educator who accompanies formative processes with men and women who live in working class neighborhoods in Colombia. Her primary objective…
Find out more »Nabuco Award Winners 2017
The winners of the 2017 Joaquim Nabuco Award are: Colten Parr, English major, Undergraduate Award & author of "Ancient Medicine in the Modern Age: The Entheogenic Sacrament in Brazilian Religious Traditions" Loren Peabody, Doctoral candidate in…
Find out more »“Managing Water Resources in Chile’s semi-arid Elqui Valley” by Paul Block
Professor Block works at the intersection of engineering and socio-economics to enhance management, adaptation, and sustainability of water resources by leveraging across the sciences. His research themes are centered on a systems-based approach, bridging models…
Find out more »“Race and Language of the Belonging Argentina” by Blenda Femenias
About the speaker: Blenda Femenías is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology of American University. She is specialist in gender, race, ethnicity, and the arts in Latin America. She has conducted research in the…
Find out more »Ethical Positioning Created by Authoritarianism: From the Popular Subject to the Collective “I” in the Chilean Documentary
About the speaker: Professor Pino-Ojeda’s research is concerned with the ways in which the arts present and contest hegemonic power. She started her career as a secondary school teacher in Philosophy and Spanish-American literature in…
Find out more »November 2017
“On the Backs of Tortoises: The Will to Save the Galápagos Islands”
About the speaker: Professor Hennessy is a historical geographer with research and teaching interests in global environmental history (with an emphasis on Latin America), animal studies, histories of science and conservation, and the political economy…
Find out more »“Documentation, Activism and Revitalization of Indigenous Ecuadorian Languages: A Shared Commitment”
About the speaker: Marleen Haboud is professor of linguistics, sociolinguistics and research methods at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. She has worked on several projects related to sociolinguistic studies, literacy and bilingual education. She…
Find out more »“Democratizing Texas Politics: Race, Identity, and Mexican American Empowerment, 1945-2002” By: Benjamin Márquez
By the beginning of the twenty-first century, Texas led the nation in the number of Latino officeholders, despite the state’s violent history of racial conflict. Exploring this and other seemingly contradictory realities of Texas’s…
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February 2018
What is DACA and Who are the Dreamers? By Kennia Coronado
About the speaker: Kennia Coronado is a PhD student in the Political Science Department. She holds a double-major in Political Science and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. …
Find out more »“Fonkoze and the Path to a Better Life for Haiti’s Poor” by Steve Werlin
About the speaker: Steven Werlin has been living and working in Haiti since 2005, and now works for Fonkoze, Haiti's largest microfinance institution. He was an advisor to Fonkoze's literacy and education programs for four years,…
Find out more »“Every Day We Live Is the Future. Stories of Nicaraguan Migrant Families” By: Douglas Haynes
Douglas Haynes is a nonfiction writer and poet whose work focuses on marginalized people and places. A passionate advocate for international education and the documentary arts, he teaches nonfiction writing and leads a "Writing…
Find out more »“The Politics of Blackness. Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil” By: Gladys Mitchell-Walthour
Dr. Gladys Mitchell-Walthour is a Political Scientist specializing in Brazilian racial politics. Her work examines Afro-Brazilian racial identification and political behavior and opinion. She is currently Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Africology…
Find out more »“NARRATING THE RIGHTEOUS IN THE COLOMBIAN ARMED CONFLICT: A civil pedagogy of solidarity for highly polarized and deeply divided societies” By: Carlo Tognato
In highly polarized and deeply divided societies restoring cross-group solidarity can be a daunting task, particularly when citizens can no longer imagine the possibility for acts of solidarity with fellow-citizens from other social or…
Find out more »March 2018
“Machado de Assis in a Trans-American Perspective” By: Hélio Guimarães
Professor Hélio Seixas Guimarães is one of the most distinguished faculty members in Brazil's top-ranked program in Brazilian literature at the University of São Paulo. He is a leading authority on nineteenth- and twentieth- century…
Find out more »“Thinking with Piezas: Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic” By: Pablo Gomez
Pablo Gomez is an Assistant Professor of History and the History of Medicine at UW-Madison. His work examines the history of health and corporeality in the early modern world with a particular focus on Latin…
Find out more »“Rezonans: A Sonic Approach to Caribbean History” By: Jerome Camal
Jerome Camal is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at UW-Madison. In this presentation, he will explain how history in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is a terrain of negotiations and contestations…
Find out more »April 2018
“Possible and Impossible Dialogues: Clarice Lispector’s Interviews in Manchete and Fatos e Fotos” By: Claire Williams
Dr. Claire Williams is a fellow and tutor of Portuguese and Associate Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on women’s writing and minority writing from the Lusophone world,…
Find out more »“The Eye of the Beholder: Julia Pastrana’s Long Journey Home” By: Laura Anderson Barbata
Laura Anderson Barbata is an artist who was born in Mexico City, and now works in Brooklyn and Mexico City. Since 1992 she has worked primarily in the social realm, and has initiated projects in the…
Find out more »“Isolated Tribes and Recent Contact of Indians in the Amazon: How many are there, how do they take care of their health?” By: Erik Jennings and Marcos Colón
Marcos Colón is a dissertator in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a Graduate Student Associate of the Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE) of UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. His research focuses…
Find out more »“Women in Contemporary Latin American Novel. Psychoanalysis and Gendered Violence” By: Beatriz Botero
Professor Beatriz L. Botero (Ph D. University of Wisconsin- Madison; Ph D. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) is a specialist in contemporary Latin American literature and cultural studies. Her research is oriented primarily towards topics in…
Find out more »May 2018
“At the Mountain’s Altar. Anthropology of Religion in an Andean Community” By: Frank Salomon
Frank Salomon is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at UW-Madison. In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual practices and belief systems of…
Find out more »September 2018
ANTONIO SKÁRMETA Y LA NOVELA DEL POSBOOM: APUNTES A EL CARTERO DE NERUDA” By: César Ferreira
El ensayo de César Ferreira, "Antonio Skármeta y el Post-Boom: Lectura de El Cartero de Neruda" (Ardiente paciencia), es un análisis en dos partes que, primero, sitúa el trabajo de Skármeta en su relación con las…
Find out more »October 2018
“EMPIRE LOGISTICS AND THE MAKING OF THE WORLD SYSTEM” By Daniel Nemser
"This talk charts the emergence of a new discourse of circulation in colonial Mexico during the period of the Iberian Union (1580-1640), when Spain and Portugal were unified under a single crown. Rather than unified, this…
Find out more »“ABRIL-TIRADO Y EL DESARROLLO DE LA GUITARRA CLÁSICA EN LATINOAMÉRICA”
When Javier Calderon played his solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall, The New York Times called him “…a virtuoso with poetic sensibility.” Since then many composers, including the eminent American Alan Hovhaness and Lawrence Weiner, have been…
Find out more »“Over the Wall: Getting a Perspective on U.S. Politics From Mexico” By: Ruth Conniff
The presenter will discuss her year in Mexico as a US journalist covering the relationship between the two countries, Donald Trump's presidency, the Mexican national elections, and the perception of the United States abroad, as…
Find out more »November 2018
“Peace, Freedom, and the Politics of Culture in Early Cold War Latin America” By: Patrick Iber
During the Cold War, left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations. Their competing visions of social democracy and their pursuit of justice, peace, and…
Find out more »December 2018
“Inequalities and digital media in the mobile era: The case of Chile” By: Teresa Correa
Because mobile access through smartphones is becoming the port of entry to the digital world --particularly for socially disadvantaged communities-- policy-making initiatives have fostered mobile connections as a “cost-effective” way to reduce disparities in internet…
Find out more »February 2019
From Optimism to Pessimism? Social Media and Citizenship in Chile
By: Sebastián Valenzuela. Tinker Visiting Professor School of Journalism and Mass Communication In the past decade, conventional wisdom on social media changed dramatically, from being celebrated as prodemocratric platforms to being held responsible for the…
Find out more »From Hope to Hate: The Rise of Conservative Subjectivity in Brazil
By: Rosana Pinheiro Machado Brazilians have recently elected a far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain. The talk introduces the general panorama of Brazilian macro and micro politics from ‘Lula-ism’ to ‘Bolsonaro-ism’, marked respectively by…
Find out more »COLOMBIAN PEACE PROCESS AND EX-COMBATANTS: A DIFFICULT TRANSITION
The main goal of a DDR Peacekeeping Process (disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration) is to contribute to the security and stability in post-conflict societies. In Colombia's Peace Process with the FARC-EP guerrilla, the first two steps…
Find out more »The Caravans, The Phenomenon that Changes the Face of Emigration
This talk aims to explain the novel phenomenon of caravans of Central Americans and how they have changed the way to migrate in search of safer options to cross Mexico and reach the United States.…
Find out more »March 2019
Queering the Cuban Screen, other faces and desires on the new Cuban Cinema
In recent years has emerged in Cuba an interesting movement of young independent directors. With modest efforts and the support of official institutions, embassies, and foreign producers, they have been creating a new image of the country…
Find out more »Reflections on Migration in Response to Opportunities and Shocks in Mexico
The motives for individuals to migrate out of their rural communities in Mexico are varied, ranging from enhanced opportunities elsewhere to local livelihoods threats associated with Climate Change. Drawing on his dissertation, Esteban will discuss two studies…
Find out more »April 2019
“THE NOVELS OF LUCRECIA ZAPPI: A READING AND CONVERSATION”
Lucrecia Zappi is the author of two novels, Onça Preta (2013) and Acre (2017), which was a finalist for the Premio Jubati, one of Brazil’s most coveted literary awards. She is also the author of Mil Folhas (2010), an essay on the…
Find out more »Bossa Nova Longplay: Getz/Gilberto and Bossa Nova Rio de Janeiro
This talk reassesses the iconic bossa nova album Getz/Gilberto fifty-five years after its recording, and considers the combination of musical, cultural and social factors that allowed this beautiful music to emerge in the Rio de Janeiro…
Find out more »Media Laboratories: Late Modernist Authorship in South America
Media Laboratories explores a pivotal time for South American literature of the 1930s and ’40s. Cinema, radio, and the typewriter, once seen as promising catalysts for new kinds of writing, began to be challenged by authors,…
Find out more »Portrait of a Port: Industry and Ideology in El Salvador (1805-1900)
By: Lauren Bridges. PhD specialist in the archaeology of Spanish colonialism in the Americas According to historical documents, this port in Acajutla was in operation between 1805 and 1900 until a new port was constructed…
Find out more »September 2019
“Screening Slaughter. Evasive Figuration in Spanish American Slaughterhouse Documentaries”
About the presentation: Nicaraguan director Gabriel Serra Argüello’s La Parka (The Reaper, 2013) is a documentary film shot primarily in a Mexican slaughterhouse. It circulated widely at international festivals, and it was screened for the…
Find out more »“Panel on Indigenous Studies”
About the presentation: This panel will focus on the following questions: What are the most important issues in relation to race and indigeneity? If indigeneity in each local context results from very specific conditions that…
Find out more »October 2019
“The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: Telling Stories from the US-Mexico Border”
About the presentation: What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the immigration system in an Arizona town rocked by deindustrialization and hyper-militarized border enforcement? When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua…
Find out more »“The Role of Community Organizing to Confront Climate Change and Forced Migration in El Salvador”
About the presentation: Community organizing has had a big impact in the rural communities of El Salvador since the armed conflict in the 80s. Sister Cities is an organization in solidarity with the Salvadoran people…
Find out more »“Nabuco Awards Luncheon and Presentations”
The International Division, in collaboration with the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, sponsors the Joaquim Nabuco Award, given annually to the two best essays on Brazil (any field) by a degree-seeking University of…
Find out more »“From the Grounds Up: Building the Economy and the State in 19th Century Mexico”
About the presentation: In the late nineteenth century, Latin American exports boomed. From Chihuahua to Patagonia, producers sent industrial fibers, tropical fruits, and staple goods across oceans to satisfy the ever-increasing demand from foreign markets.…
Find out more »“The Jakalteko Language of Guadalupe Victoria: Documenting an Endangered Dialect of the Mayan Language Jakalteko-Popti’ in Chiapas, Mexico”
About the presentation: Jakalteko (or, Popti’) is a Mayan language spoken by around 34,000 people in Guatemala and also by a few hundred people across the border in the town of Guadalupe Victoria, Chiapas, Mexico.…
Find out more »November 2019
“Attending to the Pulses of the Territory: Local officers, National Parks and Indigenous Territories in Colombia”
About the presentation: In Colombia, the management of National Parks that are superimposed on Indigenous territories has to be agreed between governmental and Indigenous authorities. My friend Julia and I did our research in two…
Find out more »“When is a Style? Tiwanaku and the Middle Horizon”
Presented by Jonah Augustine, Honorary Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UW-Madison. About the lecture: Tiwanaku, located in western Bolivia, was among the largest cities in the Americas during the Middle Horizon (c. AD 500 and 1100)…
Find out more »“Chile’s Political Crisis and the Pinochet Constitution”
Presented by Javier Couso, Professor of Constitutional Law, Universidad Diego Portales and Utrecht University. and Moderated by Alexandra Huneeus, Professor of Law; Director of the Global Legal Studies Center, UW-Madison, and Heinz Klug, Evjue-Bascom Professor…
Find out more »December 2019
“Healing from the Trauma of War: Developing Sustainable, Culturally-responsive, Community-based Mental Health Supports in El Salvador, Central America”
About the presentation: This presentation will describe the development and evolution of the Arcatao Mental Health Project. This project was initially supported by a School of Education “Grand Challenges” grant. The project aims to develop…
Find out more »“Perspectives on Bolivia”
“Jeanine Áñez is accused of a coup by ex-leader Morales.” “Bolivia death toll rises amid pro-Morales protests.” “What now that long-serving leader Evo Morales has sought asylum and an interim leader is in place?” “Food…
Find out more »January 2020
“Colombia after the conflict: Implementing the most ambitious peace deal in the world”
Presented by: Mariana Palau, a Colombian American multimedia journalist based in Bogota, covering Colombia for The Economist. She also writes for other publications including Foreign Policy and The New Humanitarian and has been published in…
Find out more »February 2020
“Food sovereignty, autonomy and security: Dilemmas and policies in the triple amazon frontier between Colombia, Brazil and Peru”
Presented by: Olga Lucia Chaparro Africano, PhD Candidate, Amazon Studies, National University of Colombia, Amazon Campus. Olga Lucia is biologist. She has an M.A. degree in environment and development and a specialization in administrative law. …
Find out more »“Bridging Science and Amazonian Knowledge in Ecuador: A Role for the Environmental Humanities”
Tod Swanson Presented by: Tod Dillon Swanson is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Senior Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University’s Global Institute for Sustainability. He is a past director of the Title IV…
Find out more »“Colombia today: Peace, War, and Protests”
Presented by: Tinker Visiting Professor, Jorge Tovar, Associate Professor, Economics Department, Universidad de los Andes Description of the presentation: Colombia is today living in what many refer to as the post-conflict era. After the peace…
Find out more »“Amazon: The Importance of the Rainforest Ecosystem, from the Soils Perspective”
Presented by: Tinker Visiting Professor Mauricio Fontes, Professor of Soil Science, Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil. Description of the presentation: The Amazon biome is the world´s largest remaining tropical forest, hosting around 10% of the…
Find out more »March 2020
LACIS Spring Lecture Series: “Lucha por el territorio y el agua en el Rio Yaqui, Sonora, Mexico” / “The fight for land and water rights in the Yaqui River area of Sonora, Mexico”
Presented (in Spanish with English interpretation) by Mario Luna Romero, Yaqui Tribe Leader, Vicam Description of the presentation: TBA
Find out more »April 2020
“Staying Human: Environmental Humanities, Climate Change Adaptation, and Small Scale Agriculture in the Eastern Caribbean”
Presented by: Kevin Meehan, Professor of English & Director, Haitian Studies Project, University of Central Florida Description of the presentation:
Find out more »“Socioeconomical Aspects and Sustainability of Dual Purpose Production Cattle Farms in Central Mexico”
Presented by: Benito Albarran-Portillo, Professor, Centro Universitario UAEM Temascaltepec. Benito Albarrán-Portillo was born in Toluca City. He spent the early part of his youth working at family small dairy farm and was a first-generation graduate…
Find out more »October 2021
“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 »November 2021
Lecture: “Contemporary art and poetry and the colonial archive in Brazil | Arte y poesía contemporánea y el archivo colonial en Brasil”
Diana Klinger Presented by Tinker Visiting Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Diana Klinger About the presentation: In a moment marked by institutional crises and struggles over material and symbolic territories and meanings of the nation,…
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/Indebted Latin American Fictions: The Power of Debt” (presented in Spanish with interpretation provided)
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…
Find out more »December 2021
“Stopping the Next One: Chronicling the race to prevent the next pandemic”
About the presentation: Covid-19 was catastrophic. The next pandemic could be even worse. Already, animal-borne diseases sicken an incredible 2.4 billion people each year—one out of every three people in the world—and kill 2.2 million…
Find out more »March 2022
RESCHEDULED! “Leonardo Arturo Quintero: Guitar Performance and lecture”
About the event: Mr. Quintero will be performing some works on the classical guitar, as well as giving a brief lecture on the instrument and the pieces performed. About the performer: A native of Caracas,…
Find out more »“Food, medicine, or poison?: Understanding roles of apazote (Dysphania ambrosioides) in communities across Guatemala”
Tabitha Faber Presented by: Tabitha Faber is a 3rd year PhD student in Botany, working with Drs. Ken Keefover-Ring and Claudia Calderon. Her work focuses on the connections between plants and people, especially as related…
Find out more »April 2022
“The Retornados Speak: The Politics of (Non)Belonging Confront Portugal’s Reimagined National Identity”
Professor Ana Catarina Teixeira About the presentation: In the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, from May 1974 until the late 1970s, over half a million Portuguese citizens were forced to leave Portugal’s ex-African…
Find out more »Lecture: “Museums and Human Rights: The Constitutional Controversy Presented by the University of Guadalajara to the Mexican Supreme Court”
Dr. Eduardo Santana Castellon About the presentation: On August 2021, the governor of the state of Jalisco, México, decided to remove 140 million pesos from the congressional previously-approved budget of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG)…
Find out more »May 2022
“Gente de la Tierra: a Fotoblog Project to Connect Youth, Communities, and Stewardship of the Earth”
About the presentation: The "Gente de la Tierra" project, supported by LACIS SEED funding, further developed and assessed a photoblog platform, which was originally created by a team of UW-Madison colleagues along with their collaborators…
Find out more »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: “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
Lecture: “La situación de los escritores uruguayos”
About the presentation: Silvia Guerra va a hacer un breve recorrido por la poesía uruguaya y el lugar que los escritores y escritoras ocupan en el momento actual de cara a la ley 18 384…
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: “Diversity for Monoculture: The United Fruit Company and Agricultural Research”
About the presentation: The United Fruit Company is infamous for its role in transforming both the physical and political landscape of Latin America. It converted millions of acres of tropical forests and farms into plantations…
Find out more »LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “Perspectives for President Lula’s Third Administration in Brazil”
Dr. Glauco Arbix About the presentation: Hear from our Tinker Visiting Professor, Glauco Arbix, who is on campus this semester from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Formally, he was the general coordinator of…
Find out more »December 2022
LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “Territorial Remainders in Patricio Guzman’s Geographical Triptych”
Dr. George Allen 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…
Find out more »February 2023
Book Presentation/Lecture: “Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry of Spanish Modernization”
Oscar Useche Presented (in Spanish, with live interpretation to English) by: Dr. Oscar Ivan Useche, Lecturer, Department of English, UW-Madison About the presentation: In this presentation, I will talk about my recent book, Founders of…
Find out more »Book Presentation/Lecture: “Oralidades”
Dr. Armando Muyolema Fernando Garces Velasquez Presented by: Dr. Armando Muyolema, Quechua Instructor, UW-Madison, and Ecuadorian sociolinguist and educator; and Dr. Fernando Garces Velasquez, linguist and anthropologist, and Professor at the Salesian Polytechnic University, Quito,…
Find out more »March 2023
LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “Mother Nature’s Secret Conversations: Wayñu Songs from the Indigenous Communities of the Highlands of Peru/Conversaciones Secretas de la Madre Naturaleza: Las Canciones Wayñu de las Comunidades Indígenas de los Altos del Perú”
Presented by: Natalia Armacanqui, Artist and dancer, and Richard Hildner Armacanqui, Musician About the presentation: "Sound of the river, enchantment of the cliffs, tell me..do those who have passed on still have thoughts?" - a…
Find out more »LACIS Lunchtime Lecture: “Opportunity and Inequality in Cuba’s Changing Economy: Examining Havana’s Highly Stratified Residential Real-Estate Market”
Presented by: Dr. Martina Kunovic, Sociology Faculty, Madison College About the presentation: The economic restructuring that started in Cuba in the 1990s and especially the most recent wave of reforms since 2010 have radically transformed opportunities…
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