Necro-politicizing the War on Drugs in Colombia

UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts

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

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: NAHUATL CONFERENCE 2020, PANEL 1

PODCAST: 3RD ANNUAL NAHUATL CONFERENCE AT UCLA PANEL 2

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: Life in the Time of COVID 19

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: 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”

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

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

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

Living and Writing in Havana

Listen to a lecture by novelist and journalist Francisco Goldman.

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

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

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

PODCAST – Chocolate in the Americas: Kirsten Tripplett

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: Humanitarianism, Medicine, and Anthropology in Latin America

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: Pediatrics, Surgery and Anthropology in Brazil

Podcasts of public lectures about Latin America.