Spring 2023

Ethnography at the Edges of a Concept: From Groundwater to Aquifers in Costa Rica
Andrea Ballestero
January 19, 2023 | Funded by the CLAS Event Series Grant

Researching Disputed Water Worlds (part of Latin American Natures in Times of Environmental Crisis Series)
Andrea Ballestero
January 20, 2023 | Funded by the CLAS Event Series Grant

Feminismos afro-colombianos: políticas anti-racistas, producción de conocimientos y artivismos
Glenda Palacios and Yanith Cristancho Segura (Naki)
February 3, 2023 | Funded by the Conference & Event Cosponsorship Grants

CineLatino: Isabella
Directed by Matías Piñeiro (Argentina/France, 2020)
February 3, 2023 | Part of the Spring 2023 CineLatino Series

Screening: Resurrección (Resurrection)
Directed by Eugenio Polgovsky
February 10, 2023 | Funded by the CLAS Event Series Grant

Wixárika Bodies, Landscapes, and Accumulation of Environmental Epigenetic Triggers
Salvador Contreras
February 15, 2023

Voro'pi: Art and Education in Between Worlds
Naine Terena, Gustavo Caboco and Jamille Pinheiro Dias
February 17, 2023 | Part of the Spring 2023 New Vocabularies, New Grammars: Imagining Other Worlds Series


Screening: La Vocera (The Spokeswoman)
Directed by Luciana Kaplan (Mexico, 2020)
February 24, 2023 | Funded by the CLAS Event Series Grant

Struggles for Rematriation from the South and North
Corrina Gould and Rocío Moreno
March 2, 2023 | Funded by the CLAS Event Series Grant

Transformative Agroecology and Territorial Markets in Mexico
Mateo Mier y Terán
March 2, 2023 | Funded by the CLAS Event Series Grant

Towards a Transformative Agroecology: Transdisciplinary Participatory Action Research in Latin America
Mateo Mier y Terán
March 3, 2023 | Funded by the CLAS Event Series Grant

Unwalling Citizenship
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
March 6, 2023 | Part of the Spring 2023 New Vocabularies, New Grammars: Imagining Other Worlds Series

To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua
Courtney Desiree Morris
March 7, 2023 | Part of the Spring 2023 Novedades/Lançamentos: New Scholarship @ Berkeley Series

Community as Rebellion
Lorgia García Peña
March 7, 2023 | Part of the Spring 2023 New Vocabularies, New Grammars: Imagining Other Worlds Series

Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspectives
Lorgia García Peña and Franchesca Araujo
March 6, 2023 | Part of the Spring 2023 New Vocabularies, New Grammars: Imagining Other Worlds Series

Access to Reproductive Rights: Lessons from Latin America and the U.S.
Caitlin Gerdts and Ninde Molre
March 10, 2023 | Funded by the Conference & Event Cosponsorship Grants


"The Spectacular Generic: Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico"
Cori Hayden
March 23, 2023 | Part of the Spring 2023 Novedades/Lançamentos: New Scholarship @ Berkeley Series

CineLatino: Eami
Directed by Paz Encina (Paraguay, 2022)
April 5, 2023 | Part of the Spring 2023 CineLatino Series

Paraguayan Facts: On the Many Temporalities of Green Revolution Science
Kregg Hetherington
April 10, 2023 | Funded by the CLAS Event Series Grant

Organized Crime and Institutional Erosion in Latin America
Edgardo Buscaglia
April 11, 2023 | Funded by the CLAS Research Working Groups

Narrating More-Than-Human Politics in Latin America
Kregg Hetherington
April 11, 2023 | Funded by the CLAS Event Series Grant

Racial Alterity, Wixarika Youth Activism and the Right to the Mexican City
Diana Negrín
April 20, 2023 | Part of the Spring 2023 Novedades/Lançamentos: New Scholarship @ Berkeley Series


Summer 2023 | Mam Language & Culture Free Workshop
Members of the Mayan community in Oakland, the Laney Latinx Cultural Center, and UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies offered workshops in Mam Language during summer 2023.