Latin American Studies
Events and Co-Sponsored Events
Welcome Back! LCHI + CLS + LAS October 10th 2023
Graduate Gathering September 13th 2023
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Commencement June 17th 2023
End of the Year Celebration June 6th 2023
Political Crisis in Bolivia, 2019-2020: Reflections on autonomous critique and plurality in academic and journalistic analysis" May 31st 2023
TINKER Spring Reception "Honoring our Tinker Awardees" June 25th 2023
Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez Visit to UCSD May 30th & June 1st 2023


Alicia Maria Siu "La colmena: Channeling Communal Narratives through Arts"
Dixa Ramirez "Insolence, Indolence, and Blackness in Hispaniola" May 10th, 2023

Christina H. Lee "Saints of Resistance. Devotions in the Philippines of Early Spanish Rule" May 4th, 2023
Encuentro Binacom "Communication, Solidarity and Social Justice" April 21st & 22nd 2023

Chicano Park Day Celebration with CLS April 22nd 2023
Flashback Friday Movie Night March 17th, 2023

Kevin Lewis O'Neil - An Island Retreat: Toward a Hemispheric History of Clerical Sexual Abuse March 16th 2023

Underwater Archeology Student Posters Exhibition March 16th, 2023

Paradoxes and Dilemmas of the Chilean Political Process: From Social Revolt to the Failed Constitutional Reform March 15th, 2023
Nature, Space, and Politics March 9th 2023

Connecting Arts-Science-History Filmmaking as Research Methos (in Spanish) March 8th 2023

Efren Olivares - My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration From the Front Lines March 6th 2023

Virginia Grise Artist Talk: Where the horizon meets the earth March 2nd 2023

Indigenous Film Festival Initiative February 18th 2023
2023 Graduate Student Lunch Reunion
Brazilian Election Discussion 2022

Dia De Los Muertos 2022
Oaxaca Resurgent Alan Shane Dillingham
This open-to-the-public, in-person event is presented by the departments of UC San Diego History, Ethnic Studies, Literature, and the Latin American Studies program, and with the collaboration of the Institute of the Americas.
Oaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth century. Drawing on declassified surveillance documents and original ethnographic research, A. S. Dillingham traces the contested history of indigenous development and the trajectory of the Mexican government's Instituto Nacional Indigenista, the most ambitious agency of its kind in the Americas. This book shows how generations of Indigenous actors, operating from within the Mexican government while also challenging its authority, proved instrumental in democratizing the local teachers' trade union and implementing bilingual education. Focusing on the experiences of anthropologists, government bureaucrats, trade unionists, and activists, Dillingham explores the relationship between indigeneity, rural education and development, and the political radicalism of the Global Sixties.
By centering Indigenous expressions of anticolonialism, Oaxaca Resurgent offers key insights into the entangled histories of Indigenous resurgence movements and the rise of state-sponsored multiculturalism in the Americas. This revelatory book provides crucial context for understanding post-1968 Mexican history and the rise of the 2006 Oaxacan social movement.
About the author
A. S. Dillingham is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University.
STEM Plática Series (Latinx Heritage Month 2022) Chicanx Latinx Studies
October 13, 2022: (In-Person) Latinx Heritage Month 2022 STEM Plática Series Day 1 | 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. | The Latin American Studies Gildred Building Library
October 14, 2022: (In-Person) Latinx Heritage Month 2022 STEM Plática Series Day 2 | 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. | The Latin American Studies Gildred Building Library
Welcome Back Reception Chicanx Latinx Latin American Studies
Fall Quarter 2022 Reception to welcome all students, faculty & staff from Latinx Chicanx & Latin American Studies
Thank you to the Che Cafe Collective & Taco Villa!