UCLA Latin American Institute

Jorge Marturano brings a broader perspective to Caribbean culture
The Brazilian Presidential Election

A Roundtable
Vendors, Public Space, and Activism in Mexico and California

With book authors Ingrid Bleynat, Christina Jiménez, Sandra Mendiola García, and Rocío Rosales
How Enduring Student Transnationalism Changes the Roles of Teachers

Migrant Children Negotiating Educational Systems Series
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands

By Kelly Lytle Hernández (Norton, 2022)
Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste

by Maite Zubiaurre
Reality in Movement: Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual

by Maarten van Delden
Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940

by César J. Ayala and Laird W. Bergad
Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico

by Kevin Terraciano
Soy, Globalization, and Environmental Politics in South America

Edited by Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Susanna B. Hecht
Antologia Fantástica Da República Brasileira

by José Luiz Passos
The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises

Edited by Dr. Cecilia Menjívar, Dr. Marie Ruiz, Dr. Immanuel Ness
Barrio Harmonics Essays on Chicano / Latino Music

by Steven Loza
Skills of the "Unskilled" Work and Mobility among Mexican Migrants

by Jacqueline Hagan, Rubén Hernández-León, Jean-Luc Demonsant
Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas

by Patricia Marks Greenfield, Lauren Greenfield (Photographer)
The Students We Share Preparing US and Mexican Educators for Our Transnational Future

by Patricia Gándara and edited by Bryant Jensen

The UCLA Latin American Institute is a vital regional, national, and international resource on Latin America. Since its founding in 1959, the LAI has equipped generations of leaders, professionals, and students with the information and skills required for understanding the vast and complex region of Latin America. The LAI supports research by funding grants and foreign-language instruction, and disseminates recent scholarship through conferences, workshops, public programs, teacher training, and publications.

Oct6
Vendors, Public Space, and Activism in Mexico and California

Zoom Webinar
10:00 AM
Oct6
The Brazilian Presidential Election

Zoom Webinar
12:00 PM
Oct10
How Enduring Student Transnationalism Changes the Roles of Teachers

Zoom Webinar
5:00 PM
Oct14
Surviving the Anthropocene: Speculative Fictions from Latin America's Past, Present, and Futures

Luskin Conference Center – Illumination Room
8:30 AM
Oct24
Film Screening: The Book Revolution, with director Travis Knoll

10383 Bunche Hall
2:00 PM
Oct27
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands

UCLA Bunche Hall 6275
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Bringing a transnational approach to the study of Mexico

The new director of the Center for Mexican Studies, Gaspar Rivera-Salgado...

Amazonia in crisis

The Amazon rain forest is in crisis, but Indigenous land-use practices...

César J. Ayala y Laird W. Bergad ganan el Premio Manuel Moreno Fraginals de la AHEC

"El pasado 2 de noviembre, el jurado del Premio Manuel Moreno...

The UCLA Latin American Studies MA Program Instructs and Inspires

Blog Post by Bonnie Taub, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Latin American Studies...

Beyond Blood Avocados

by LAI graduate affiliate Joel Herrera...

Zapotec in 90006, K'iche' in 90057: New map highlights L.A.'s Indigenous communities

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