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Dear Latin Americanist Community,
We are looking forward to a busy month with the return of our series on
Bolivia and Paraguay, the Latin American Mobilities series organized in collaboration with the UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration, and events organized by the Center for Mexican Studies and the LAI Outreach Program. On February 4, Professor Tamara Kay (University of Pittsburgh) will present her new book Sesame Street around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships, in a webinar organized by the LAI Outreach Program. Register for this event here. On February 10, we are bringing back Professor Julia Morris (University of North Carolina, Wilmington), who will present Asylum Frontiers: The Impacts of Border Externalization in Guatemala. Find details of this presentation here.
The LAI year-long series on Bolivia and Paraguay returns with back-to-
back events. On February 24, Professor Gabriela Morales (Scripps College) will offer a webinar entitled Seeing Like a State, Caring Like a Survey: Health, Kinship, and Data-Gathering in Bolivia. Register for this event here.The next day, February 25, PhD Candidate Nohely Guzman (Geography, UCLA) will present ‘Me Duele el Rio’ (the River Hurts Me):Enfleshing Territory, Body-Mapping, and the Affective Geographies of Chinese Infrastructure in Bolivia’s Amazonia. Register for this in-person event here. We are hoping to organize a talk by anthropologist Paola Canova (UT-Austin) on Paraguay later in the month. Stay tuned!
On February 12, the Center for Mexican Studies hosts Professor Pablo
Piccato (Columbia University), who will discuss his book A Brief History of Violence in Mexico, in conversation with Professor Fernando Perez Montesinos (History, UCLA). Register for this webinar here. And on February 20, Professor Juan Carlos Sanchez-Antonio (Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca) will present his book La Filosofía de los Zapotecas. Register for this Spanish webinar here.
Please consider donating to the mission of the UCLA Latin American
Institute and its centers, programs, and working groups, by contributing to our general fund. Your generous donations support the lively intellectual life of the institute and will make sure that we continue training the next generation of Latin Americanists. Thanks!
Rubén Hernández-León,
Director of the UCLA Latin American Institute
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