La Alianza de Estudios Indígenas de América Latina (LAISA), una colaboración entre la Universidad de Stanford, la Universidad de California en Berkeley, la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles y la Universidad de Utah, invita a instructores de lenguas indígenas de América Latina al Simposio de lenguas indígenas de América Latina: pedagogía y práctica.
Este simposio anual ofrece una oportunidad única para que educadores, investigadores y profesionistas dialoguen y compartan avances en pedagogía,...
Gloria E. Chacón will share a chapter from her forthcoming book, Metamestizaje: Indigeneity, Migration, and Diasporas: Challenging Cartographies, which examines Indigenous identity and migration from Mesoamerica to the United States. Through three interconnected themes, Chacón explores the complex relationships between Indigeneity, migration, philosophy, cosmology, and ceremonial practice. The presentation begins by examining contemporary Maya philosophical thought, particularly focusing on...
These lectures explored an anthropogenic history of sound during the first half of the twentieth century (up to the 1960s), a period of intense imperial expansion of the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the first three lectures, Ochoa approached the centrality of media and the development of new sound technologies in such a history. Ochoa particularly focused on the transformation of the relation between histories of life, extractivism, and sound produced by sound technologies. In the last two...
In the sixteenth-century Americas, conquistadors, missionaries, and Indigenous elites and commoners organized spectacles for religious feasts and civic celebrations. This presentation centered on those that mixed plot elements from the Siege of Tenochtitlan with plot elements from battles taking place in the greater Mediterranean. It argued that by envisioning conflict in this corner of the world and relating it back to the invasion of the Valley of Mexico, participants created foundational narratives of New Spain...
In recent decades, an explosion of critical interventions from multiple fields has emphasized the return to the archive as one of the key axes from which central problems of the culture and history of the Americas are thought about, read, and discussed. However, studies on critics and artistic practices have, to different extents, always been anchored in and in conversation with the archive.
This set of presentations sought to reflect on the way in which Latin American studies have positioned themselves...
For centuries, we’ve been taught that modern global history began with Columbus’s arrival in America. However, Caroline Dodds Pennock’s groundbreaking book reveals that tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit, and others had already “discovered” Europe. These Indigenous Americans...
The Berkeley Global History Seminar presents “Plains & Pampas: Indigenous Nations & Settler Colonialism in North & South America” with Professor Julio Esteban Vezub, Instituto Patagónico de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, CENPAT-CONICET, Argentina. Professor Vezub will present a lecture, followed by Q&A.
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JulioVezub is a professor at Instituto Patagónico de Ciencias Sociales y...
During his last 40 years as anthropologist, Prof. Varese has followed, accompanied and witnessed the ethnopolitical struggle of the indigenous peoples of Latin America for their self-determination, autonomy and cultural sovereignty. He is now revisiting these years of political struggle and professional engagement in an attempt to reach some conclusions on the role of committed Latin American anthropology in the hemispheric indigenous movement for social, economic and cultural justice.
Stefano Varese is a professor in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis...
Jonathan Fox is Professor and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He has published widely on the issues of democratization and the strengthening of civil society, particularly in Mexico. This research has been supported with grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Heinz Foundation, and the North-South Center. Of his many publications, he most recently co-edited Cross-Border Dialogues: Mexico-U.S. Social Movement Networking.
