The LAIS Program is pleased to invite the LAIS community  to our end of the year celebration and lunch to recognize the achievements of our students, faculty and staff.   It will conclude with an awards ceremony. The event will take place on Friday, May 31st from 12-2:00pm in Girvetz Hall 2320. We hope to …

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Congratulations to Dr. Marisol Ramos (Library) for defending her PhD thesis "La nación del porvenir: La literatura fundacional cosmopolita de Alejandro Tapia (1823-1882)" at the University of Connecticut. Her dissertation will be the subject of our next tertulia on May 20th from 12-1:30 pm in Girvetz 2320.

LAIS is pleased to invite the campus community to a tertulia with Professor Federico Finchelstein. In this talk, Professor Finchelstein will discuss his latest book,  The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy  (University of California Press, 2024), where he maintains that Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a …

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