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UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts

English, Education, 1 season, 39 episodes, 2 days, 20 minutes
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Podcasts of public lectures about Latin America.
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'WE ARE NOT PART OF YOUR FAMILY' Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labor Rights and Recognition

2/17/20221 hour, 12 minutes, 7 seconds
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LGBT+ People’s Reported Social and Health Adaptations to COVID-19 in Mexico City

Using an original survey instrument distributed online, this study evaluates and compares the social and health adaptations of LGBT+ people currently living in Mexico City to the COVID-19 pandemic.
7/6/202055 minutes, 38 seconds
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Webinar: Los trabajadores de las maquiladoras frente al COVID-19

Este webinario contará con ponencias de un grupo de académicos y activistas quienes analizarán los riesgos a los que se han enfrentado los trabajadores de la maquila durante la epidemia del COVID-19, debido a las ambigüedades legales que han existido en c
6/30/20201 hour, 23 minutes, 37 seconds
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Video: MEXICO, CANADA, THE UNITED STATES AND COVID-19

6/12/20201 hour, 4 minutes, 35 seconds
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PODCAST: Coca, Violence and the Supernatural: Necro-politicizing the War on Drugs in Colombia

Necro-politicizing the War on Drugs in Colombia
6/1/20201 hour, 30 minutes, 47 seconds
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PODCAST: NAHUATL CONFERENCE 2020, PANEL 1

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.
5/29/20201 hour, 42 minutes, 39 seconds
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PODCAST: 3RD ANNUAL NAHUATL CONFERENCE AT UCLA PANEL 2

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.
5/29/20201 hour, 54 minutes, 4 seconds
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PODCAST: Life in the Time of COVID 19

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.
5/26/20201 hour, 34 minutes, 35 seconds
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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”

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
4/29/20201 hour, 37 minutes, 41 seconds
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PODCAST: Brazil, Bolsonaro and COVID-19: A conversation

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
4/29/20201 hour, 48 minutes, 13 seconds
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Living and Writing in Havana

Cuban writer Leonardo Padura and filmmaker, scriptwriter Lucia Lopez Coll discuss contemporary ideas of writing in Havana.
10/30/20180
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PODCAST – Can Mexico Save Itself? YoSoy132 to Ayotzinapa and Beyond!

Listen to a lecture by novelist and journalist Francisco Goldman.
5/19/20151 hour, 19 seconds
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Panel 2: Faculty Round Table: U.S.-Mexico Border: Migration, Transnationalism and Sovereignty

5/6/20151 hour, 4 minutes, 39 seconds
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PODCAST – Chocolate in the Americas: Kirsten Tripplett

Got Cacao? A Brief Introduction to the deep history of chocolate in Mesoamerica and Central America by Kirsten Tripplett
4/24/201540 minutes, 32 seconds
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Podcast- The Use(fulness) of Nauatl Dialects Spoken Today for the Study of Written Nauatl from the 16th and 17th Centuries

Listen to a lecture by Dr. Una Canger Professor Emeritus at the University of Copenhagen.
3/31/201539 minutes, 15 seconds
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Podcast- Human Rights in Latin America: Legal, Medical and Psychosocial Issues Forum

Listen to a forum on Human Rights in Latin America featuring Felipe Michelini.
3/4/20151 hour, 51 minutes, 59 seconds
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Podcast-Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States

Listen to a lecture by Professor Heidi Tinsman (UC Irvine) on her new book Buying into the Regime.
11/14/201450 minutes, 30 seconds
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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 humanitarianism, medicine, and anthropology among communities in Latin America.
6/3/20143 hours, 31 minutes, 41 seconds
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Podcast- At the Crossroads: Pediatrics, Surgery and Anthropology in Brazil

Listen to a presentation by clinicians and social scientists who explore the intersection between medicine, surgery and anthropology among communities in Brazil.
4/16/20142 hours, 41 minutes, 16 seconds
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PODCAST: At the Crossroads: Community Wellbeing and Culture in Latin America

Listen to presentations by medical and social scientists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and attorneys on community wellbeing and culture in Latin America.
5/29/20132 hours, 48 minutes, 37 seconds
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PODCAST- At the Crossroads: Surgery and Culture in Latin America

Listen to presentations by surgeons and NGO administrators on health and culture in Latin America.
5/15/20133 hours, 51 seconds
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PODCAST – Narcocorridos: Origins and Development of Drug-trafficking Ballads

Presentation by Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta, professor of Spanish at San Diego State University during the teacher workshop "Ballads without Borders: The Mexican Corrido Past and Present."
4/23/20131 hour, 7 minutes, 33 seconds
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PODCAST- At the Crossroads: Medicine and Culture in Latin America

Listen to presentations by anthropologists and clinicians on health and culture in Latin America.
4/1/20132 hours, 13 minutes, 38 seconds
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PODCAST- Encuentro con Carla Guelfenbein: Una chilena en la republica mundial de la novela

Listen to a presentation by novelist Carla Guelfenbein
2/1/201350 minutes, 58 seconds
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PODCAST- Reading and QandA with Granta’s best young Brazilian novelists

Listen to a reading and discussion with 5 of Brazil's best young novelists
12/3/20121 hour, 9 minutes, 54 seconds
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PODCAST- 520 Years of Dictatorship: Survival, Struggle and Militancy of the Mapuche People

Listen to presentation by poet and political activist Graciela Huinao
11/1/201243 minutes, 15 seconds
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Religious and Ceremonial Art in the Caribbean

Lecture by Dr. Ysamur Flores-Peña, Otis College
8/18/201139 minutes, 24 seconds
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Dance Practices of Latin America: Salsa as Social Resistance

Lecture by Ana Maria Alvarez, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures
8/15/201112 minutes, 20 seconds
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Garifuna Identities and Politicas in Contemporary Honduras

Lecture by Dr. Mark Anderson, UCSC
8/15/20111 hour, 13 minutes, 43 seconds
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African Catholics and Christian Subjects

Lecture by Dr. Rachel O'Toole, UCI presented on the 2011 Summer K-12 Workshop.
8/14/20111 hour, 16 minutes, 27 seconds
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The Atlantic Slave Trade in Global Context

Lecture by Dr. Emily Musil Church presented on the 2011 Summer K-12 Workshop.
8/14/20111 hour, 27 minutes, 16 seconds
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Fugitive Acts and Fragile Freedoms

Lecture by Dr. Rachel O'Toole, UCI Department of History
8/14/201146 minutes, 18 seconds
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Argentina: Economic and Cultural Background

A podcast with Dr. Ricardo Lopez Murphy.
5/7/201031 minutes, 28 seconds
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Argentine Political Scientist on Leader He Served as Culture Minister

Torcuato Di Tella, an emeritus professor at the University of Buenos Aires and former Argentine Minister of Culture, lectured on Feb. 23 at UCLA.
2/24/20101 hour, 25 minutes, 16 seconds
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The State of US-Venezuela Relations

Remarks by his Excellency Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States.
10/8/200936 minutes, 10 seconds
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A Forgotten Presence: Muslim Migrants in early 20th Century South America

Mara del Mar Logroo Carbona, Assistant Professor, History Department, Florida State University
6/4/200921 minutes, 7 seconds
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PODCAST-Former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo: "Global Financial Crisis and the Fight Against Poverty"

Former President of Peru, founder and President, Global Center for Development and Democracy, and Distinguished University Fellow, Stanford University speaks on Global Financial Crisis and the Fight Against Poverty.
6/4/200937 minutes, 36 seconds
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Cartographies of Islam in the Americas: Migrants, Converts and Devotion

Introduction by Professor Randal Johnson, Director of the Latin American Institute, April 3, 2009
6/4/20094 minutes, 6 seconds
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Joseph Wallach on the Beginnings of TV Globo

The American pioneer of a powerhouse Brazilian television network tells his story at UCLA.
5/14/200710 minutes, 16 seconds