by Heider Tun Tun (Firm Rock), ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow. October 12, 2021.

To learn more about the advantages of a Latin American Studies program and degree, check this interview with the director of the Latin American Studies Center at the University of California, Irvine

See the list of our Core Faculty for the Latin American Studies Minor and Graduate Emphasis as well as for the Latin American Studies affiliated faculty

UCI LASC partnered with Pragda Spanish Film Festival to bring you a series of five films that will be screened virtually in winter and spring quarters and tied to classes being taught in various departmentsAll UCI students, faculty, and staff are invited to watch these films and join the discussion by using the login information shown in the picture.

On your right, Christina Garcia, Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston and UCI Spanish and Latin American Studies Grad Emphasis alumni, on your left, Ivette Hernandez-Torres, her advisor at UCI.

This panel discusses how various disciplinary approaches from the Social Sciences and Humanities examine Latin America's cultural and historical ties to East Asia. To what degree the trans-local exchange of people, commodities, and ideas between different regions of East Asia and Latin America shapes various research agendas? Indeed, understanding Latin America as part of the Pacific World

Engaging with trans-Oceanic studies, which understands oceans as matter and being, we bring the Black Pacific into Conversation with the Black Atlantic and the Indian Ocean to consider not only the intimacy of continents but also the intimacies of oceans and islands. Look for the middle panel on the Black Pacific Americas on Mexico, Colombia, and Peru.

Watch the recording of the event "1520 and the Slave Trade to the Americas" with Prof. David Wheat, Prof. Sabrina Smith, and moderated by Prof. Alex Borucki, November 2020.

This conference brought together scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences
working at the intersection of Mining, the History of Science and Technology, and
Environmental Studies in the Americas from the early Modern period to today. Picture: Assistant Professor Stefanie Graeter presenting during the second session, October 2020

Memory and Testimony as Counterarchive in the South Atlantic World: A Talk by Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. John C. Marquez, March 9, 2020. In 1794, fifteen enslaved descendants of an Angolan woman named Paula collectively sued for their freedom in Rio de Janeiro. In their freedom suit, which lasted sixteen-years and generated over six-hundred pages of court record.

This lecture-demonstration explored the origins, characteristics, and social contexts of traditional musical styles of the Brazilian Northeast - including capoeira, maracatu, ijex�, bai�o, and samba, among others. On the left, Jo�o Martins, on the right, JoVia Armstrong

Romina Akemi Green-Rioja (pictured right), a UCI Latin American History PhD, reports from the front lines of protest in Chile for the Radical History Review's on-line political essay section, "The Abusable Past"