Our first tertulia & lunch of the year took place on October 20 and featured Lydia Fossa, an independent scholar specialized in Andean colonial and indigenous history and literatures. Dr.

LAIS congratulates Prof. André Corrêa De Sá on the publication of his book, Ecofagias. The book examines some of the narratives through which societies in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa and

Professor Cecilia Méndez has been appointed as Director of the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Méndez is a Professor of History and