Category: Features
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Environmental Amnesia and the Rio Grande: Thoughts on Remembering Where We Are
By C. J. ALVAREZ RIVERS ARE HARD TO UNDERSTAND. I grew up in southern New Mexico about a mile from the Rio Grande. As a…
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The Cristina Rivera Garza Papers
Benson Acquisition News By LAUREN PEÑA DECIDING WHAT TO KEEP, what to let go, and how to care for the objects that tell the story…
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The Unbounded Territories of Cinema: Gael García Bernal at UT Austin
By ADELA PINEDA FRANCO THIS YEAR, the Austin Lecture on Contemporary Mexico, a signature event of the LLILAS Mexico Center, was especially memorable. In celebration…
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A Fight for Democracy: The First Years of the Mexican Revolution
By ALBERT A. PALACIOS and ANA A. RICO This exhibit traces the many revolutions Mexico experienced between 1910 and 1916 to free itself from authoritarianism.…
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Do Indigenous Ecologies Matter?
By BARBARA E. MUNDY AN INVITATION TO THE 2025 LOZANO LONG CONFERENCE, “Urban Entanglements: Centering Marginalized Lives and Ecologies in Latin America,” allowed me to…
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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…