Miguel Ángel Oxlaj Cúmez is a Maya-Kaqchikel poet, writer, and scholar. He is the author of the novella Ru taqikil ri Sarima' / La misión del Sarima', a short story compilation (Mitad mujer/Nik'aj Ixöq) and a poetry collection (Xti Saqirisan Na Pe/Planicie de olvido). He has been awarded with the B'atz' Price for Indigenous Literatures...

Please join us for a documentary screening and Q&A session by Afro Cuban journalist and filmmaker Liz Oliva Fernández on the Biden administration's Cuban Affairs policy on Tuesday, November 7th, 2023 at 4:00PM. This event will be held in Lydeen Library (4302 Rolfe Hall) and is sponsored by the UCLA Department on Caribbean Studies, Latin...

Lunes, 13 de noviembre, 9:00AM (LA) / 6:00PM (Madrid). Webinar: https://ucla.zoom.us/s/97153530037 La Dra. Gelsys García Lorenzo (UCLA) conversará con Abilio Estévez, una de las principales figuras de la renovación del teatro cubano. Hablarán sobre la obra del dramaturgo, cuentista, poeta y novelista habanero. Abilio Estévez es uno de los escritores cubanos más importantes del siglo...

Please join us in Lydeen Library (Rolfe 4302) on Monday, November 13 at 2pm for an information session about the 2025 Buenos Aires Summer Travel Study Abroad program! In Buenos Aires, you will experience full immersion in a vibrant social life, historical sites, museums, tango milongas, and grassroots popular theaters. The two important features of this program are home stay...

Los usos de la medicina herbal para mantener la salud o curar enfermedades en los pueblos indígenas nos pueden ayudar a entender su relación con el medioambiente. Esta presentación es una exposición del proceso y los resultados de una investigación etnográfica sobre los usos de medicinas herbales en Tecomate, Chicontepec, una comunidad Nahua en la...

The UCLA Latin American Institute will host a public event about the Florentine Codex, a 12-book manuscript of Indigenous Aztec (or Nahua) culture and knowledge, on November 16. The evening event will feature many members of the UCLA-trained team who contributed to Getty's Digital Florentine Codex, a new online edition of the manuscript, who will...

The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese invites you to a presentation by Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, the 2023-2024 UC Regents Lecturer. Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil is a linguist, writer, activist, and public intellectual based in Ayutla Mixe (Oaxaca, Mexico), whose work focuses on the study, preservation, and revitalization of Indigenous languages across Mesoamerica. Aguilar...

Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996, is a documentary about Rompeforma: Marató n de Baile, Performance & Visuales, the experimental Latinx dance and performance festival that took place in Puerto Rico from 1989-1996. Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996 features dozens of performances and commentary by many current leaders of the field, and some who have sadly passed. Fenomenal intends to...

Please join us in honoring the 2024 UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award recipient Dr. Roberto Cantú, Professor Emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles. The 2024 Distinguished Alumni Lecture topic is "Alfredo Véa's Gods Go Begging: The War Novel as a Work of Art". Gods Go Begging consists of fourteen chapters arranged...

The Mediterranean Seminar and UCLA’s CMRS Center for Early Global Studies present the Mediterranean Seminar Winter 2024 Workshop,  “Intermediaries, Middle Grounds, Middle Sea” held on 9 & 10 February at UCLA. As the theater of engagement and integration of communities originating on the shores or from the hinterlands of Africa, Asia, and Europe, the Mediterranean...