Category: Features
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The Archives of Viche: Black Women and the Embodied Production of Distilled Spirits in the Colombian Pacific
By CAMILLE C. CARR La memoria de mis ancestras camina conmigo y me acompaña a todas partes. [The memory of my female ancestors walks by…
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Lost and Future Cities: Explorations in the Wilderness and Imaginaries of Modernities in Brazil
By BEATRIZ JAGUARIBE Blank Spaces and Amazonian Imaginaries LIBRARIES EVOKE other libraries. The turning of pages leads to other geographies of letters that emerge as…
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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…
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Artist Spotlight: Juan Pablo Abalo
By SUSANNA SHARPE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RECENT HISTORY, an artist-in-residence will spend a semester at LLILAS. Chilean composer, musical producer, and writer Juan…
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Black Feminist Epistemologies: Learning with Sueli Carneiro
Ler em português. By ANA CAROLINA ASSUMPÇÃO and ANA LUIZA BIAZETO Antes de ser um tema acadêmico, o feminismo negro é uma causa, é uma…
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Between Words, Between Worlds: Linguistic and Contextual Disruptions in the Transition from English to Spanish Literacy among Children Moving from the U.S. to Mexico
By VÍCTOR ZÚÑIGA ALTHOUGH THE ARE OFTEN INVISIBLE, children are international migrants crossing borders, generally as members of families. This article addresses one of the…
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A Polyphony for New Worlds in Abiayala: The 2024 Lozano Long Conference
By MARÍA JOSÉ PÉREZ SIÁN THE 2024 LOZANO LONG CONFERENCE, “Indigenous Lands, Resisting Sexualities in Abiayala,” held April 18 and 19, was a space for…
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Faculty Spotlight: Joshua Frens-String
JOSHUA FRENS-STRING is a historian of modern Latin America and assistant professor in the Department of History. His research and teaching examine the history of…
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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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Finding God over the Airwaves: Is Religious Media Driving Protestant Growth in Latin America?
BY GUSTAVO FUCHS PROTESTANTISM HAS BEEN ON THE RISE across Latin America for decades. Scholars have tackled this historic trend by examining the underlying social…
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Which Box to Check? The Adoption Story at the Center of My Master’s Thesis
BY ANA KEARNEY I was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1993, but have spent the majority of my life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I am…
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A Town amid the Waters: The Building of a Hydroelectric Dam in Eastern Antioquia, Colombia
By CINDIA ARANGO LÓPEZ Leer en español EL PEÑOL AND GUATAPÉ are two towns in the mountains of the central Colombian Andes, in the Eastern…