Media Recordings

The Latin American and Caribbean Studies program video records many of its seminar series, annual lecturer, and LACS public issues forum events; in addition, we also have a special video on Ecuador's Ecosystems. The link below will lead you to the LACS YouTube site where you can browse the selection of lectures. Here are some of the most recent ones.

Video Recordings of Seminars and other Lecture/Panel Events

• Dolors Armenteras | Fires and Forest lost in the Colombian Amazon | 9 May 2023

• Franco Leal-Yepes | Dairying in Latin America: A Story of Growth, Sustainability, and Food Security | 3 May 2023

• Tessa Murphy & Heather Roller | Indigenous-European Encounters in the Caribbean and Brazil | 2 May 2023

• Frederick Payton and Michael Cox | Socio-Eco Benefits of Collective Rice Certification in the Dominican Republic | 26 April 2023

• Francio Guadeloupe | HUMAN-ING OUT LOUD: Ontologies of Disorder in a Musically Exemplified Trans-Caribbean-Thought | 19 April 2023

• Gustavo Flores-Macías | Book Talk: Contemporary State Building in Latin America | 18 April 2023

• Leonidas Iza | Social & Political Impacts of Indigenous Peoples Uprisings in Ecuador | 13 April 2023

• Alejandro Velasco | The Many Faces of Chavismo: Towards a Comprehensive Account | 24 October 2022

• David Cordero | Protecting the Andes and Amazon: Rights of Rivers and Forests in Ecuador | 26 September 2022

• Carolyn Fornoff | Greening Mexican Cinema | 19 September 2022

• May-Yen Moriuchi | Representation and Resistance: The History of Chinese Coolies in19th-Century Cuba | 02 May 2022

• Fabio Zuker | Composing Toxic Landscapes: Evidential Ethnography of the Destruction of the Amazon Forest and the Creation of Soy Monocultures | 21 April 2022

• Arturo Escobar | Designing for the Pluriverse: Restor(y)ing Life, Remaking Worlds | 18 April 2022

• Andressa Lanchotti and Pedro Rossi | Perspectives on Latin American Issues: Mining Disaster in Brazil and Environmental Agenda in Chile | 11 April 2022

• Emily Vázquez Enríquez | Border Environments Series: Borders and Species Extinction | 11 April 2022

• Amarilys Estrella | Interrogating Intimacies: Black Feminist
  Desahogos in Anti-Racist Activism | 28 March 2022

• Alex Nading | Plantation Patienthood: Chronic Liver Disease and Health Activism in Nicaragua | 21 March 2022

• Agustin Cano | Culture, Nation and the People: a Century of University Extension in Latin America | 14 March 2022

• Martin Caparros | Football/Soccer: The Fiction Machine | 07 March 2022

• Rodrigo Canales | Building Effective, Resilient, and Trusted Police Organizations in Mexico | 18 February 2022

• PASSIM Sextet, Virtual Concert from Brazil | 18 February 2022

• Paola G. Siclari Bravo | HABITAT III + 5: Implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean | 06 December 2021

• Jean E. Saint Paul | The Economic Motivations Behind U.S. Interventions & Foreign Policy in Haiti | 29 November 2021

• Janice Gallagher | Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico's Disappeared | 22 November 2021

• Cora Fernandez Anderson | Fighting for Abortion Rights in Latin America | 08 November 2021

• Humor vs. Power: Cartooning in Latin America and the Caribbean | 28 October 2021

• Fernanda Ayala | Struggles over Land and Power in the Newest Sugarcane Region of Brazil | 18 October 2021

• Javier Puente | Children of Collapse: El Niño and the Andean World | 04 October 2021

• Michael Bustamante | Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile | 20 September 2021

• Yeseni Barragan | Freedom’s Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific | 13 September 2021

• Alice Driver | Migration at the US-Mexico Border During the Biden Era | 03 May 2021

• Border Environments, A Special Events Series | Panel discussion on "Fandango at the Wall" | 27 April 2021

• David Wheat | Refracted Empire: The Atlantic Islands and the Early Spanish Caribbean | 19 April 2021

• Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro | Voluntary Audits: Experimental Evidence on Monitoring Front-Line Bureaucrats in Argentina | 12 April 2021

• Melissa Castillo | A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture | 23 March 2021

• Blair Robert | Mano Dura: An Experimental Evaluation of Military Policing in Cali, Colombia | 8 March 2021

• Casey Schmitt | ‘They brought them from the Palenque in Jamaica’: Human Trafficking and the Conquest of Jamaica | 08 March 2021

• Paul Humphrey | Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rican Comics | 04 March 2021

• Filiz Garip | How weather events shape Mexico - U.S. migration flows | 15 February 2021

• Leaders of Sarayaku: Connecting Indigenous Roots - Feb 25: Session 3 (in Spanish) | 25 February 2021

• Leaders of Sarayaku: Connecting Indigenous Roots - Feb 24: Session 2 (in Spanish) | 24 February 2021

• Leaders of Sarayaku: Connecting Indigenous Roots - Feb 24: Session 1 (in Spanish) | 24 February 2021

• Sandra Ley | Votes, Drugs, and Violence. Elections Subnational Criminal Governance Regimes in Mexico | 07 Dec 2020

• Maximo Langer | Penal Abolitionism and Criminal Law Minimalism | 30 Nov 2020

• Abby Córdova | Criminal Governance and Violence against Women: Evidence from El Salvador | 23 Nov 2020

• Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser | The Chilean Right at the Crossroads | 16 Nov 2020

• Anindita Banerjee, & Debra Castillo | South of the Future: Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas | 09 Nov 2020

• Irina Tronconis | Crafting Nation-ness: Venezuelan Diaspora, Contemporary Art, and the Politics of the DIY | 02 Nov 2020

• Paulo Dutra | 'The ultimate drive-by': Racionais MC’s, Ice Cube and the pitfalls of Being Black | 26 October 2020

• Global Challenges to Democracy: Perspectives from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America | 02 Oct 2020 | Panel: Valerie Bunce, Tom Pepinsky, Rachel Riedl, and Kenneth Roberts

• LASP Public Issues Forum: “High Stakes: Implications of the U.S. Election for Latin America” | 28 Sept 2020

• Gerard Aching | How Does Racialization Measure a Society's Tolerance for Dehumanization? | 24 Sept 2020

• Gabriel Giorgi | Las vueltas del odio. Gestos, escrituras, políticasLas vueltas del odio. Gestos, escrituras, políticas | 17 Sept 2020

• Rebecca Tarlau | Occupying Schools, Occupying Land | 16 Dec 2019

• Pablo Gomez | Enslaved Histories | 09 Dec 2019

• Daniel Gingerich | Buying Power: Electoral Strategy before the Secret Vote | 11 Nov 2019

• Pablo Lapegna | The Political Economy of GMOs in Argentina | 28 Oct 2019

• Todd Miller | Empire of Border: The Expansion of the US Border around the World | 22 Oct 2019

• Steve Levitsky | Democracy in Latin America After the Left Turn | 04 Nov 2019

• Juan Vargas | The Intendent and Unintendent Consequences of Colombia's Peace Agreement | 23 Sept 2019

• Amanda Rodewald | Can Tropical Working Landscapes Work for Conservation? | 09 Sept 2019

Special Video Recordings 

Music Concert

PASSIM Sextet Virtual Concert from Brazil | 18 February 2022

"Clube da Esquina" Live from Limeira, Brazil | 21 April 2021

LACS Internships in Ecuador Student Testimonials

Katherine Esterl SU'23, PUCE

Jesse McDonald SU'23, USFQ

Julian Jaramillo SU'22, YAKUM (NGO)

Giovanni Moreira SU'22, PUCE

Caleb Kimble SU'22, English Teaching in Salasaka Indigenous Community

LACS Internships with Brazil and Ecuador, Student Testimonials, January 2021

Alejandra Perez, Brazil 
Vivian Shu, Brazil
Nicole Fung, Ecuador

Ecuador's Ecosystems

• Empowering Ecuador's Extraordinary Ecosystems (English version)

• Empoderando los Extraordinarios Ecosistemas del Ecuador (Spanish version)

Simposio Latinoamericano de Avances de Investigación en SARS-CoV-2

A LACS Public Issues Forum, September 16-17, 2020, Co-sponsored with the Colombian Virologic Association (Asociación de Virología de Colombia-AVC), 11 presentations listed below:
 

DAY 1 Sept 16th

• Zulma Cucunubá | Impacto de COVID-19 y estrategias de control en América Latina: el papel del modelamiento epidemiológico

• Andres Moreira-Soto | Dificultades de diagnóstico de SARS-CoV-2 en los trópicos

• Gina Polo | Modelación espacio-temporal de COVID-19: Inequidades en la proporción de casos-fatalidades
• Javier Jaimes |  Mecanismos estructurales y moleculares de la infección por SARS-CoV-2
• Alexis Kalergis | Investigación y desarrollo de vacunas contra virus respiratorios: desde la ciencia básica hasta la vacunación e implicaciones en tiempos de pandemia
• Diana Castaño | Inmunogenicidad de potenciales vacunas de mRNA para SARS-CoV-2

DAY 2 Sept 17th

• Patricia Silverya | Sexo, género y COVID-19

• Jaime Castellanos | Kits comerciales vs. Sistemas ‘in house’ en el diagnóstico molecular, sensibilidad, costos y oportunidad de SARS-CoV-2
• José Usme-Ciro | Biología evolutiva de SARS-CoV-2 como elemento clave para afinar el diagnóstico y comprender la dinámica de la enfermedad
• Abrrey Monreal | Usando antivirales en nuevas técnicas para producir vacunas
• José Mateus | Respuesta inmune celular frente a la infección por el SARS- CoV-2 en individuos recuperados de COVID-19 y en sujetos no expuestos