The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' Digital Archive showcases conversations with faculty and graduate researchers whose work explores the diverse histories, cultures, and societies of Latin America and the Caribbean. Featuring a collection of video interviews, presentations, and visual art, this archive offers an accessible window into current scholarship, regional perspectives, and emerging questions in the field. Viewers can explore topics ranging from political movements and social change to art, language, and identity across the Americas.
For access to our full Digital Archive, check out our YouTube page.
Entre Nos: A conversation with Mercedes Trigos about eugenics, erotics, and the allure of archives
Mercedes Trigos is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests broadly include racialization, gender, sex, and sexuality in the literatures and cultures of the Americas in the twentieth century. Drawing on her training in literature, she uses close reading and archival research methods for comparative and interdisciplinary work in Latinx, Chicanx, and Mexican studies. Join us while we get to know more about her academic trajectory, the invisible logics of racism, and her current book project. Check out Entre Nos, our new podcast-style interview series, now featured on our YouTube channel.
Entre Nos: A conversation with Alex Borucki about the transatlantic slave trade and shared identity
Alex Borucki is a Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on the impact of mutual experiences and social networks on the formation of collective identities among Africans and their descendants in the Rio de la Plata. His work casts new light on the thousands of Africans who arrived in Montevideo and Buenos Aires at the peak of the transatlantic slave trade. Join us as we learn more about his research on the Río de la Plata region, his contributions to the archive, and his current book project. Check out Entre Nos, our new podcast-style interview series, now featured on our YouTube channel.
Entre Nos: A conversation with Heidi Tinsman about Chile, grapes, and transnational histories
Heidi Tinsman is a Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on gender, race, and labor in modern Latin America and the Americas. She is especially interested in the relevance of feminist materialist paradigms for transnational and world history. Join us as we learn more about her research on Chile and her research methodology. Check out Entre Nos, our new podcast-style interview series, now featured on our YouTube channel.
Entre Nos: A conversation with Alex Huezo about myths, coca, and aerial eradication in Colombia
Alex Huezo is an Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He conducts research on the transnational dimensions of environmental racism and justice. Specifically, he studies how Afro-descendent communities in the Pacific Region of Colombia resist the war on drugs as well as other socio-environmental issues. Join us as we learn more about his academic trajectory and his recently published book, Visions of Global Environmental Justice (UC Press, 2025). Check out Entre Nos, our new podcast-style interview series, now featured on our YouTube channel.
CINEGUAZU
We are pleased to share, CINEGUAZU, the comic-reportage winner of the 2025 Itaú Foundation Award of Cultural Journalism at the Roa Bastos Fest.
Chasing the "Diamond": Ocean Memory, The Black Pacific & Slave Trade Routes to the Americas.
In 1759 the Diamond, a sloop that would trade ownership between the French and the British over the course of its life, sailed to unspecified ports in the Americas, Jamaica, Panama, Colombia and more unspecified destinations in what was then known as the Spanish Caribbean and embarked and disembarked human cargo as part of the slave trade. During this voyage, one member of its human cargo was lost and remains in a residence time presence in an unknown location. The Diamond serves as an entry point into a discussion of the movement of Africans and African-descended captives to the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea-bordered regions, the ocean memory of those human cargo lost to the voyages through the Americas and how that loss reverberates into the present.
Suffer the Little Children: A Conversation with Anita Casavantes Bradford.
Anita Casavantes Bradford is Associate Professor in the UCI Department of Chicano/Latino Studies. In this conversation, she tells us about her forthcoming book, "Suffer the Little Children: Unaccompanied Child Migrants and the Geopolitics of Compassion in Postwar America," as well as writing and teaching in times of Covid-19.
A Conversation with Edward Telles on Latin American Studies and Chicano/Latino Studies.
Edward Telles is a Distinguished Professor in the UCI Department of Sociology, and a leading figure in the study of race and ethnicity in Latin America and the United States, and also, on the immigrant experience across the Americas. Here he shares reflections on the relations between Latin American Studies and Chicano/Latino Studies, and he tells us about his teaching at UCI for 2021-2022
