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UCLA's Latin America events, from welcome to final thanks.
The UCLA Latin American Institute's recorded events: invited talks, conference panels and webinars, some in English and some in Spanish. Subjects run from domestic workers' unions and maquiladora labor to COVID-19 survey data from Mexico City and a lagoon monster from Cali.
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This feed holds recorded events from the UCLA Latin American Institute and the campus units it works with, including the Center for Mexican Studies, the Caribbean Program and, for one webinar, the program on Canadian studies. What a listener hears is the event itself. Ruben Hernandez-Leon, director of the Center for Mexican Studies, opens several sessions, and more than once he begins with a land acknowledgement, in English at one event and in Spanish at another. Introductions come next, then the talk, then questions and thanks. The formalities stay in, and so does the substance. Jennifer Chun welcomes one lecture that was opened to the public and also made part of a class called Culture, Power, and Development. In it, Adriana Paz Ramirez of the International Domestic Workers Federation argues that treating domestic labor as work puts historically excluded voices at the table. She says it also demands a place in a labor movement historically dominated by white men. Her concrete example is Bolivia's 2003 domestic workers law. Survey research appears too. Cristina Chica's talk on LGBT+ people in Mexico City during COVID-19 reports that social media was the most popular place respondents went for pandemic news. At a Spanish-titled webinar on maquiladora workers, one speaker says the voices of companies and government have been heard while workers' voices have not, and calls for production and the protection of workers together. A webinar on Mexico, Canada, the United States and COVID-19 includes an account of Canadian provinces imposing moratoria on evictions and pausing student loan payments. Then the register shifts. Alex Hueso, introduced by Robin Derby of the Caribbean Program, follows El Monstro del Charco Azul, a monster tied to a lagoon in Cali's Agua Blanca district, as part of his work on coca, violence and the supernatural in Colombia. He closes by admitting the idea may have seemed like a stretch in places. A panel from a 2020 Nahuatl conference, opened by institute director Kevin Terraciano, includes a Spanish-language presentation built on interviews with Nahua women about heavy workloads and gender inequality. That range is the reason to listen. Labor law, pandemic statistics, federal politics and folklore sit side by side in one feed.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants researchers presenting their own work on Latin American labor, public health, politics and culture in academic form. It also suits someone comfortable with recordings that switch into Spanish.
What sets it apart: It carries the institute's own event recordings rather than a studio production, with introductions, land acknowledgements and closing thanks left in. Within the same feed the subject can move from Bolivian labor law to a Colombian lagoon monster to a Nahuatl conference panel.
Podcasts of public lectures about Latin America.
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A focused lecture on how domestic workers turn recognition, unions, and rights claims into labor power.
Domestic work is framed here as a question of labor, power, and recognition in a public lecture on Latin American domestic workers and the global fight for labor rights.
A focused survey review of how COVID-19 news habits connected with testing in respondents' social networks.
COVID-19 is treated here less as a headline than as a pattern of attention, trust, and social reach. Cristina Chica's presentation follows survey respondents by sexual orientation and gender/sex as they moved through news, public information, and the illness's presence in their…
A focused account of why maquiladora reopening has to treat worker protection and production as the same problem.
Maquiladoras under COVID-19 becomes a measured look at who gets heard when production starts back up. The episode follows workers' complaints about unsafe plants, closed Conciliation Councils, and labor authorities that have not given them a meaningful response.
A grounded review of how Canadian federalism divided pandemic duties while coordinating a shared response.
Federalism turns practical in this review of Canada's COVID-19 response, where responsibility for public health, economic relief, childcare, evictions, and First Nations measures has to be sorted across levels of government.
A thoughtful talk on how violence in Colombia takes shape through stories of monsters, death, and dangerous water.
Alex Hueso connects violence in Colombia with the supernatural stories that grow around migration, poverty, and unsafe living conditions. In Cali's Agua Blanca district, he centers on the monster of Charco Azul, a figure said to pull people underwater after a hundred bodies are…
International law at lecture-room depth.
Oral history for Cambridge law.
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Asian Efficiency's Tan Pham and Brooks Duncan on time management, habits, and AI tools.
A call-in helpline where listener questions turn into reported science and history investigations.
Adriana Paz Ramirez of the International Domestic Workers Federation argues that Convention 189 came from decades of Latin American domestic-worker organizing, not a top-down legal gift.
UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts features Cristina Chica's talk on LGBT+ people's reported social and health adaptations to COVID-19 in Mexico City, introduced by Ruben Hernandez-Leon of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies.
UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts presents Webinar: Los trabajadores de las maquiladoras frente al COVID-19, introduced by Rubén Hernández León and Gaspar Rivera Salgado to 35 participants.
Marcela Solario says Mexico is still using lockdown measures, border coordination, and a Los Angeles consulate shift into emergency services, food support, and outreach.
UCLA Latin American Institute Podcasts hosts Alex Hueso's talk, Coca, Violence and the Supernatural: Necropolitizing the War on Drugs in Colombia, as a book proposal built from his UCLA MA thesis and Florida International University dissertation.
UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts presents “PODCAST: NAHUATL CONFERENCE 2020, PANEL 1,” featuring research on Nahuatl language, ceremonies, and community life.
The second panel of UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts features Brisa Sánchez Zavala on maize processing and Cindy García on Wixárika relationships with native maize.
UCLA Caribbean Program director Lauren Derby convenes Nancy Burke, Cesar Arena, and Rodrigo Bulamah to examine COVID-19, immobility, and public life in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
John Garrigus of the University of Texas at Arlington examines animal disease, African poisons, and the Macondal conspiracy in Saint-Domingue from 1750 to 1788.
UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts presents a panel on Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, and COVID-19 featuring epidemiologist Maria Amélia Veras, journalist Brian Meir, and UCLA infectious-disease specialist Karen Nilsson.
Francisco Goldman examines the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students, linking the case to Mexico’s Yo Soy 132 movement, the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre commemoration, and allegations of institutional impunity.
Ruben Hernandez-Leon presents a nearly two-decade study of Mexican migration to Dalton, Georgia, where the Latino population rose from under 1% in 1980 to 40% in 2000.
Kirsten Tripplett introduces cacao history from possible Olmec use 4,000 years ago to chocolate bars developed within the last 150 years.
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At UCLA’s Human Rights in Latin America Legal, Medical, and Psychosocial Issues Forum, Bonnie Taub introduces presentations on Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, and other regional cases.
Heidi Tinsman argues that U.S.
The UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts episode traces narco-corridos from 19th-century contraband ballads to drug-trafficking recordings documented as early as October 1931.
Carla Gelfenbein describes how exile, family migration, and ten formative years in England shaped novels grounded in Chile but marked by non-belonging.
At UCLA, José Luis Pazos hosts Saskia Vogel, Cristiano Aguiar, Vinicius Jatobá, Chico Mattoso, and Katrina Dodson for a reading and discussion of Granta’s young Brazilian novelists issue.
Graciela, a Mapuche writer from Chile, describes how language, land, religion, food, clothing and ecological practices survived more than 500 years of invasion.
UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts examines Caribbean religious and ceremonial art through African, European, Catholic, Protestant, and Indigenous frameworks.
The UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts episode examines Garifuna identities and politics in Honduras through the history of St.
UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts examines how Africans and their descendants navigated Catholic institutions, slavery, and freedom in colonial Spanish America.
The UCLA Latin America Institute instructor places the Atlantic Slave Trade beside Trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean, Black Sea, and other historical routes of enslavement.
A UCLA Latin America Institute lecture by a historian examines how African diaspora people in colonial Spanish America were classified, constrained, and able to create forms of freedom.
The UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts episode attributes Argentina's recurring economic crises to a historical conflict between Spanish centralization and classical liberal institutions.
A UCLA Latin America Institute lecture examines Argentine Peronismo, the movement created by Juan Perón and later reshaped by Néstor and Cristina Kirchner.
The UCLA Latin America Institute Podcasts episode examines whether restored Venezuela-U.S.
A public lecture at UCLA on Latin America, featuring a speaker with a background in international relations.