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Exhibition Highlight – Martín Fierro: From Marginal Outlaw to National Symbol

September 27, 2022

IT HAS BEEN 150 YEARS since the publication of Argentina’s renowned epic poem, El gaucho Martín Fierro, by José Hernández. In spring 2022, graduate research assistants Melissa Aslo de la Torre and Janette Núñez organized an exhibition in honor of the poem’s sesquicentennial in the Rare Books Reading … [Read more...] about Exhibition Highlight – Martín Fierro: From Marginal Outlaw to National Symbol

Tagged With: Argentina, Benson Latin American Collection, gauchos, José Hernández, Martín Fierro

Welcoming a New Director

September 3, 2021

Dr. Adela Pineda Franco — First Latin American Woman to Lead LLILAS ADELA PINEDA FRANCO, a scholar in the humanities, joins the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies as its new director beginning fall 2021. Dr. Pineda Franco comes to The University of Texas at Austin from Boston … [Read more...] about Welcoming a New Director

Tagged With: Adela Pineda Franco, LLILAS, LLILAS Benson, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Crónica: Las botas de la Lola

September 3, 2021

Foreword: The Art of Storytelling Among our amazing students, there is a generalized need to tell stories. Stories about their research, or about personal experiences during their time in the field. Sometimes, students have told me, they meet people whose lives they find compelling, whose … [Read more...] about Crónica: Las botas de la Lola

Tagged With: crónica, Fátima Valdivia, Spanish Creative Writing Initiative, Tarahumara

Poesía: Disolución gramatical

August 30, 2021

POR ANA LÓPEZ H before there was land and lust and breathing turning into dust and killable people in god’s dull trust. there was us. there was only us. meaning water and blood and bone and stone and sun and change and we remain. outlasting everything. — Alexis Pauline Gumbs la gramática … [Read more...] about Poesía: Disolución gramatical

Tagged With: Ana López H., LLILAS Benson, LLILAS students, poesía

The Exhibition on Your Screen: Selected Images from “A New Spain, 1521–1821”

August 30, 2021

BY ALBERT A. PALACIOS THE VICEROYALTY OF NEW SPAIN was a royal territory in the Spanish Empire formed soon after the invasion and conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521. Even though the viceroyalty was not formally founded until 1535, the Spanish Crown set its administrative bedrock the year after … [Read more...] about The Exhibition on Your Screen: Selected Images from “A New Spain, 1521–1821”

Tagged With: Benson Centennial, Benson Latin American Collection, C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections, colonial Mexico, conquest of Mexico, Digital humanities, digital scholarship, Indigenous Issues, Latin American history, LLILAS Benson, New Spain, Title VI National Resource Center, U.S. Department of Education, University of Texas at El Paso Library, University of Texas Libraries

Poesía: En Calma / Ki’ nuk’u’x

August 29, 2021

POR NATHALIA HERNÁNDEZ OCHOA, translated to Maya Kaqchikel by the poet and Baldomero Cúma Chávez From the poet: At the moment COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in early April 2020, I was conducting research in Guatemala, living in San Pedro el Alto, traveling to Antigua, Santa María … [Read more...] about Poesía: En Calma / Ki’ nuk’u’x

Tagged With: Baldomero Cúma Chávez, Kaqchikel, LLILAS Benson, LLILAS students, Nathalia Hernández Ochoa, pandemia, poesía

Staff Pick: Tecuichpoch / Doña Isabel de Moctezuma—Madre del Mestizaje

October 30, 2020

Catalina Delgado-Trunk Papers BY DANIEL ARBINO God, greed, and glory. These values propelled a cataclysm in Tenochtitlan of never-before-seen proportions when Spaniards entered the heart of the Mexica empire with conquest on their mind in 1519. A world was turned upside down, and in its … [Read more...] about Staff Pick: Tecuichpoch / Doña Isabel de Moctezuma—Madre del Mestizaje

Tagged With: Benson Latin American Collection, Catalina Delgado-Trunk, Daniel Arbino, papel picado, Tecuichpoch, US Latinos

Staff Pick: “Camas para Sueños” by Carmen Lomas Garza

October 30, 2020

Carmen Lomas Garza Papers and Artworks BY SUSANNA SHARPE The first time I saw Camas para Sueños (Beds for Dreams) was at the Laguna Gloria Art Museum in Austin, at an exhibition of works by Carmen Lomas Garza. I remember being moved to tears by the painting. Two sisters lie on a rooftop in the … [Read more...] about Staff Pick: “Camas para Sueños” by Carmen Lomas Garza

Tagged With: Benson Latin American Collection, Camas para Sueños, Carmen Lomas Garza, Chicano movement, Susanna Sharpe

(Self)Love in the Time of COVID

October 30, 2020

BY DANIEL ARBINO IT WAS INEVITABLE: the scent of fresh cut grass reminded me that we were in the middle of spring in Austin, Texas.1 I was surrounded by green: leaves, lawns, and the lingering light following an afternoon storm. Yet it was not the storm that forced neighbors to stay indoors, … [Read more...] about (Self)Love in the Time of COVID

Tagged With: Anel I. Flores, Benson Latin American Collection, Daniel Arbino, Julia Arredondo, Kat Fajardo, Rebecca Artemisa, Stephanie Rodriguez, Suzy González, zines

Staff Pick: Ernesto Cardenal in Solentiname

October 30, 2020

Ernesto Cardenal in Solentiname, Ernesto Cardenal Papers, 1925–2016 BY DYLAN JOY The acquisition of the Ernesto Cardenal Papers in 2016 marked a renewed focus by LLILAS Benson on collecting and preserving collections and stories from Central America. Cardenal, who passed away at 95 in March … [Read more...] about Staff Pick: Ernesto Cardenal in Solentiname

Tagged With: Benson Latin American Collection, Dylan Joy, Ernesto Cardenal, literary archives, Solentiname

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