Beyond the Horizon: Pericentric Complexity in the Chavín Phenomenon at Atalla, Peru

Monday, January 27 | 5:00 PM PT | Fowler Museum, Rm A222 & Online | Event organized by the Andean Working Group

Photo for Beyond the Horizon: Pericentric Complexity...

Book Talk: Care without Pathology How Trans- Health Activists are Changing Medicine

Wednesday, January 29 | 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM |Hershey Hall, Rm 158 | Event organized by CSW| Streisand Center

Photo for Book Talk: Care without Pathology...

The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Thursday, January 30 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM PT | Bunche Hall, Rm 6275 | Event organized by the History of Gender & Sexuality Colloquium of the History Department

Photo for The Silver Women: How Black...

Workshop in Oaxaca immerses L.A. teachers in Indigenous Mexican culture

Latin American Institute summer program prepares K–12 instructors to bring new knowledge into their classrooms.

Photo for Workshop in Oaxaca immerses L.A....

The UCLA team behind the Digital Florentine Codex

UCLA Magazine delves into the team of UCLA alumni and professors who played an instrumental role in creating the Getty Digital Florentine Codex. The entire 16th-century encyclopedia of Indigenous Mexican knowledge and culture is now easily accessible worldwide for the first time in its history.

Beyond the Horizon: Pericentric Complexity in the Chavín Phenomenon at Atalla, Peru

Monday, January 27 | 5:00 PM PT | Fowler Museum, Rm A222 & Online | Event organized by the Andean Working Group

Book Talk: Care without Pathology How Trans- Health Activists are Changing Medicine

Wednesday, January 29 | 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM |Hershey Hall, Rm 158 | Event organized by CSW| Streisand Center

The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Thursday, January 30 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM PT | Bunche Hall, Rm 6275 | Event organized by the History of Gender & Sexuality Colloquium of the History Department

Workshop in Oaxaca immerses L.A. teachers in Indigenous Mexican culture

Latin American Institute summer program prepares K–12 instructors to bring new knowledge into their classrooms.

The UCLA team behind the Digital Florentine Codex

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.

BLOG

Are Haitians Pet Eaters? The Demonization of Haitians has a long history in the West

Written by Lauren Derby, Professor of Latin American history, University of......

Housing Uruguay's Rural Poor

Blog Post by Samuel T. Brandt...

On Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society and the STS publishing in landscape LATAM in

Written by Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Founding Editor-in-Chief, 2017-2022 Director, Center for the......

More Entries...

Upcoming Events

Jan29

Book Talk: Care without Pathology How Trans- Health Activists are Changing Medicine

Hershey Hall, Rm 158
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Jan30

The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

Bunche Hall, Rm 6275
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Feb6

The Role of Women in Making Inca Territorial Spaces

Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
12:00 PM

Feb8

K-12 Workshop:Tracing Brazilian Musical Histories and Cultures through Choro

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

More Events...

Recommended Books

Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste

by Maite Zubiaurre

Much has been written about landfills and the monumentality of rubbish, but little attention has been paid to "litter," the small trash that soils the urban pavement, like...

Reality in Movement: Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual

by Maarten van Delden

Reality in Movement looks at a wide range of topics of interest in Paz's career, including his engagement with the subversive, adversary strain in Western culture; his meditations on...

Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940

by César J. Ayala and Laird W. Bergad

Fundamental tenets of colonial historiography are challenged by showing that US capital investment into this colony did not lead...

Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial Mexico

by Kevin Terraciano

One of the earliest texts written in a Native American language, the Codex Sierra is a sixteenth-century book of accounts from Santa Catalina Texupan, a community in the Mixteca region...

More Books...

Recommended Books

Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste

by Maite Zubiaurre

Much has been written about landfills and the monumentality of rubbish, but little attention has been paid to "litter," the small trash that soils the urban pavement, like the bits of chewing gum that some artists decorate. Talking Trash looks at... Read More

Reality in Movement: Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual

by Maarten van Delden

Reality in Movement looks at a wide range of topics of interest in Paz's career, including his engagement with the subversive, adversary strain in Western culture; his meditations on questions of cultural identity and intercultural contact; his dialogue with both leftist and... Read More

Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940

by César J. Ayala and Laird W. Bergad

Fundamental tenets of colonial historiography are challenged by showing that US capital investment into this colony did not lead to the disappearance of the small farmer. Contrary to well-established narratives, quantitative data... Read More