Tag: Vale do Ribeira Brazil
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Black Feminist Epistemologies: Learning with Sueli Carneiro
BEING A GRADUATE STUDENT is not easy, especially in a prestigious program such as the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. In spring 2023, the authors, along with fellow Brazilian students, were talking about the challenges with Dr. Christen Smith, our adviser, and she said, “I…
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To the Reader, Fall 2024
EACH FALL, the publication of Portal magazine affords us an opportunity to showcase LLILAS and the Benson, both as two separate units and as a rich and symbiotic partnership. In this issue, you will meet three stellar Tinker Visiting Professors, whose work is represented in two self-authored articles (Víctor Zúñiga and Beatriz Jaguaribe) and one…
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Lives in Motion: Human and Animal Migration in Times of Environmental Change
IN MID-MAY, our group traveled to the Quindío Coffee Axis region of Colombia to conduct interviews with local communities, itinerant coffee pickers, and coffee growers in an effort to comprehend the production process of the coffee bean. With a focus on the changing roles of women, children, and the family system on coffee plantations as…
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The Archives of Viche: Black Women and the Embodied Production of Distilled Spirits in the Colombian Pacific
MY RELATIONSHIP WITH VICHE began on a chilly September night in Colombia’s capital city, Bogotá. I was in the beginning months of my Fulbright grant at the Universidad Nacional when I attended a concert by a group of musicians from the Pacific region of the country called Agrupación Tambacum.
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Joseph Stiglitz and Martín Guzmán: Development and Debt Challenges in Latin America
JOSEPH STIGLITZ, who won the Nobel Prize in 2001, focused on current economic challenges surrounding global debt, highlighting its disastrous effects, particularly in Africa. Central to his reflection was the proven fact that debt forgiveness does not solve the problem of excess debt. More than two decades after the debt relief campaign known as Jubilee…
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Lost and Future Cities: Explorations in the Wilderness and Imaginaries of Modernities in Brazil
LIBRARIES EVOKE other libraries. The turning of pages leads to other geographies of letters that emerge as tokens of memory. Reading in the Benson Latin American Collection and scanning the archives for references about the hinterlands of Brazil, I was reminded of another library, one whose volumes I had never read but whose atmosphere lingered…
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Benson Acquisition: César Vallejo Papers
PERUVIAN POET César Vallejo (1892–1938) is considered one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century Latin American literature. Born in the Andean city of Santiago de Chuco, he moved to Lima as a young university student, producing there his first collection of poems, Los heraldos negros (1919). Seeking wider cultural and intellectual opportunities, Vallejo left…
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Faculty Spotlight: Daniel Brinks
DANIEL BRINKS is professor of government and law and current chair of the UT Austin Department of Government, where he specializes in the fields of comparative politics and public law. He previously served as co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin School…
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POEM – The Saguaro: Gossamer
María Gómez de León is a bilingual poet and translator currently pursuing an MFA at the Michener Center for Writers. Her first book, Linfa, won the 2023 International Gilberto Owen Estrada Poetry Prize.
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Poems, Magazines & Manifestos: Literary Vanguardism in 20th-Century Latin America
THE BENSON LATIN AMERICAN COLLECTION is proud to present Poems, Magazines & Manifestos: Exploring Literary Vanguardism in Early 20th-Century Latin America. The exhibition highlights the cultural production of the region’s avant-garde artists and thinkers.
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Artist Spotlight: Juan Pablo Abalo
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RECENT HISTORY, an artist-in-residence will spend a semester at LLILAS. Chilean composer, musical producer, and writer Juan Pablo Abalo will take advantage of access to LLILAS and the Benson Latin American Collection to conduct interdisciplinary research, write, and allow some of his latest ideas on a range of topics—nostalgia, democracy,…
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Writing Behind the Walls: Pido la Palabra
THE POEMS ON THESE PAGES were written within the framework of a bilingual creative writing course titled Pido la Palabra, which was taught in fall 2023 at the Gregory S. Coleman state prison in Lockhart, Texas. Offered through the university extension program of the University of Texas at Austin, under the auspices of the Texas…