Media Recordings

The Latin American Studies Program video records many of its seminar series, annual lecturer, and LASP public issues forum events; in addition, we also have a special video on Ecuador's Ecosystems. The link below will lead you to the LASP 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

• 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?

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

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

• Rebecca Tarlau | Occupying Schools, Occupying Land

• Pablo Gomez | Enslaved Histories

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

• Pablo Lapegna | The Political Economy of GMOs in Argentina

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

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

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

• Maximo Langer | Penal Abolitionism and Criminal Law Minimalism

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

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

Special Video Recordings 

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 LASP 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