Category: Arte/Letras
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Beyond the Music: Daniel Party on Víctor Jara and the Many Facets of Musicology
MUSICOLOGIST DANIEL PARTY was Tinker Visiting Professor at LLILAS during spring 2023. He is an associate professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he…
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Exhibition Highlight – Martín Fierro: From Marginal Outlaw to National Symbol
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…
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Welcoming a New Director
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…
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Crónica: Las botas de la Lola
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…
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Poesía: Disolución gramatical
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.…
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The Exhibition on Your Screen: Selected Images from “A New Spain, 1521–1821”
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…
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Poesía: En Calma / Ki’ nuk’u’x
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…
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Staff Pick: Tecuichpoch / Doña Isabel de Moctezuma—Madre del Mestizaje
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…
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Staff Pick: “Camas para Sueños” by Carmen Lomas Garza
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…
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(Self)Love in the Time of COVID
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…
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Staff Pick: Ernesto Cardenal in Solentiname
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…
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Inside the Agrasánchez Collection of Mexican Cinema
BY DIEGO GODOY THE YOUNG HIGINIO GRANDA stood soldierly as he faced a mansion on Colón Street in Mexico City. Blond, svelte, and possessing a…