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Podcasts of public lectures about Latin America.

UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts


    • Feb 17, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
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    'WE ARE NOT PART OF YOUR FAMILY' Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labor Rights and Recognition

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2022 72:07


    LGBT+ People’s Reported Social and Health Adaptations to COVID-19 in Mexico City

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 55:38


    Using an original survey instrument distributed online, this study evaluates and compares the social and health adaptations of LGBT+ people currently living in Mexico City to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Webinar: Los trabajadores de las maquiladoras frente al COVID-19

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2020 83:37


    Este webinario contará con ponencias de un grupo de académicos y activistas quienes analizarán los riesgos a los que se han enfrentado los trabajadores de la maquila durante la epidemia del COVID-19, debido a las ambigüedades legales que han existido en c

    Video: MEXICO, CANADA, THE UNITED STATES AND COVID-19

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2020 64:35


    PODCAST: Coca, Violence and the Supernatural: Necro-politicizing the War on Drugs in Colombia

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2020 90:47


    PODCAST: NAHUATL CONFERENCE 2020, PANEL 1

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2020 102:39


    This webinar features new research on Mesoamerica by 3 teachers and 4 advanced students of the Nahuatl language. Presentations will be in Nahuatl, Spanish, and English or a combination of the 3 languages.

    PODCAST: 3RD ANNUAL NAHUATL CONFERENCE AT UCLA PANEL 2

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2020 114:04


    This webinar features new research on Mesoamerica by 3 teachers and 4 advanced students of the Nahuatl language. Presentations will be in Nahuatl, Spanish, and English or a combination of the 3 languages.

    PODCAST: Life in the Time of COVID 19

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2020 94:35


    This panel offers three short presentations and discussions about COVID 19 and its impact in Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic from the perspectives of three scholars with years of experience in these contexts.

    Podcast: John Garrigus (Department of History, UT Arlington): “An epidemic that can only be stopped by the most violent remedy”: African ‘Poisons’ versus Animal Disease in Saint-Domingue, 1750-1788”

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2020 97:41


    John Garrigus, Dept. of History, University of Texas, Arlington, “An epidemic that can only be stopped by the most violent remedy”: African ‘Poisons’ versus Animal Disease in Saint-Domingue, 1750-1788” Comment - Stephen Bell, Depts. of History and Geo

    PODCAST: Brazil, Bolsonaro and COVID-19: A conversation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2020 108:13


    In this roundtable, the first of an International Institute series on the global pandemic, a group of researchers, clinical practitioners, and journalists will discuss the epidemiological, public health, and political dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic i

    Living and Writing in Havana

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2018


    Cuban writer Leonardo Padura and filmmaker, scriptwriter Lucia Lopez Coll discuss contemporary ideas of writing in Havana.

    PODCAST – Can Mexico Save Itself? YoSoy132 to Ayotzinapa and Beyond!

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2015 60:19


    Listen to a lecture by novelist and journalist Francisco Goldman.

    Panel 2: Faculty Round Table: U.S.-Mexico Border: Migration, Transnationalism and Sovereignty

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2015 64:39


    PODCAST – Chocolate in the Americas: Kirsten Tripplett

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2015 40:32


    Got Cacao? A Brief Introduction to the deep history of chocolate in Mesoamerica and Central America by Kirsten Tripplett

    Podcast- The Use(fulness) of Nauatl Dialects Spoken Today for the Study of Written Nauatl from the 16th and 17th Centuries

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2015 39:15


    Listen to a lecture by Dr. Una Canger Professor Emeritus at the University of Copenhagen.

    Podcast- Human Rights in Latin America: Legal, Medical and Psychosocial Issues Forum

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2015 111:59


    Listen to a forum on Human Rights in Latin America featuring Felipe Michelini.

    Podcast-Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2014 50:30


    Listen to a lecture by Professor Heidi Tinsman (UC Irvine) on her new book Buying into the Regime.

    Podcast- At the Crossroads: Humanitarianism, Medicine, and Anthropology in Latin America

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2014 211:41


    Listen to a presentation by clinicians and social scientists who explore the intersection between humanitarianism, medicine, and anthropology among communities in Latin America.

    Podcast- At the Crossroads: Pediatrics, Surgery and Anthropology in Brazil

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2014 161:16


    Listen to a presentation by clinicians and social scientists who explore the intersection between medicine, surgery and anthropology among communities in Brazil.

    PODCAST: At the Crossroads: Community Wellbeing and Culture in Latin America

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2013 168:37


    Listen to presentations by medical and social scientists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and attorneys on community wellbeing and culture in Latin America.

    PODCAST- At the Crossroads: Surgery and Culture in Latin America

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2013 180:51


    Listen to presentations by surgeons and NGO administrators on health and culture in Latin America.

    PODCAST – Narcocorridos: Origins and Development of Drug-trafficking Ballads

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2013 67:33


    Presentation by Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta, professor of Spanish at San Diego State University during the teacher workshop "Ballads without Borders: The Mexican Corrido Past and Present."

    PODCAST- At the Crossroads: Medicine and Culture in Latin America

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2013 133:38


    Listen to presentations by anthropologists and clinicians on health and culture in Latin America.

    PODCAST- Encuentro con Carla Guelfenbein: Una chilena en la republica mundial de la novela

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2013 50:58


    PODCAST- Reading and QandA with Granta’s best young Brazilian novelists

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2012 69:54


    Listen to a reading and discussion with 5 of Brazil's best young novelists

    PODCAST- 520 Years of Dictatorship: Survival, Struggle and Militancy of the Mapuche People

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2012 43:15


    Listen to presentation by poet and political activist Graciela Huinao

    Religious and Ceremonial Art in the Caribbean

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2011 39:24


    Garifuna Identities and Politicas in Contemporary Honduras

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2011 73:43


    Dance Practices of Latin America: Salsa as Social Resistance

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2011 12:20


    The Atlantic Slave Trade in Global Context

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2011 87:16


    Lecture by Dr. Emily Musil Church presented on the 2011 Summer K-12 Workshop.

    African Catholics and Christian Subjects

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2011 76:27


    Lecture by Dr. Rachel O'Toole, UCI presented on the 2011 Summer K-12 Workshop.

    Fugitive Acts and Fragile Freedoms

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2011 46:18


    Argentina: Economic and Cultural Background

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2010 31:28


    Argentine Political Scientist on Leader He Served as Culture Minister

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2010 85:16


    Torcuato Di Tella, an emeritus professor at the University of Buenos Aires and former Argentine Minister of Culture, lectured on Feb. 23 at UCLA.

    The State of US-Venezuela Relations

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2009 36:10


    Remarks by his Excellency Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States.

    Cartographies of Islam in the Americas: Migrants, Converts and Devotion

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2009 4:06


    Introduction by Professor Randal Johnson, Director of the Latin American Institute, April 3, 2009

    A Forgotten Presence: Muslim Migrants in early 20th Century South America

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2009 21:07


    PODCAST-Former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo: "Global Financial Crisis and the Fight Against Poverty"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2009 37:36


    Former President of Peru, founder and President, Global Center for Development and Democracy, and Distinguished University Fellow, Stanford University speaks on Global Financial Crisis and the Fight Against Poverty.

    Joseph Wallach on the Beginnings of TV Globo

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2007 10:16


    The American pioneer of a powerhouse Brazilian television network tells his story at UCLA.

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