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A Town amid the Waters: The Building of a Hydroelectric Dam in Eastern Antioquia, Colombia

September 27, 2022

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 Antioquia region. In the early 1960s, their inhabitants never thought they would have to migrate through the water with their belongings and stories on … [Read more...] about A Town amid the Waters: The Building of a Hydroelectric Dam in Eastern Antioquia, Colombia

Tagged With: Cindia Arango López, Colombia, Eastern Antioquia, El Peñol, Guatapé, LLILAS, water shortage

Embodied Geographies: Feminist Body-Mapping with Amazonian Indigenous Girls, Cuerpo-Territorio, and the Outlining of a New Academic Grammar

September 27, 2022

By NOHELY GUZMÁN NARVÁEZ IN MARCH 2019, I had one of the most nurturing, delicate, and vulnerable experiences of my professional career. After years of having worked with Indigenous women from the Bolivian Amazon in whose territories Chinese capital has settled, I learned that the body knows, … [Read more...] about Embodied Geographies: Feminist Body-Mapping with Amazonian Indigenous Girls, Cuerpo-Territorio, and the Outlining of a New Academic Grammar

Tagged With: Body-mapping, Bolivia, Environment, Indigenous Issues, LLILAS, Nohely Guzmán Narváez

Silks and Swords: Sumptuary Laws and Gender in Colonial Mexico

September 27, 2022

By HALEY SCHROER On June 8, 1685, Don Diego de García, cacique, or Indigenous leader, from Tlapa (now in modern-day Guerrero), petitioned the viceroy of New Spain to intervene on his behalf. As the “legitimate son of Don Alonso García and Doña María Bárquez de Sandoval, themselves caciques … [Read more...] about Silks and Swords: Sumptuary Laws and Gender in Colonial Mexico

Tagged With: colonial Mexico, Don Diego de García, Haley Schroer, Mexican history, New Spain, Sumptuary laws

Black Women Who Move Mountains: Responding to Crisis in Rio de Janeiro’s Complexo do Alemão

September 27, 2022

By ANA CAROLINA ASSUMPÇÃO Ler em português IN TIMES OF CRISIS, people come together for mutual support. This has not changed since the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. All over the world, people have worked together to mitigate the impact of the virus on society despite the fear of … [Read more...] about Black Women Who Move Mountains: Responding to Crisis in Rio de Janeiro’s Complexo do Alemão

Tagged With: Black women, Camila Santos, Complexo do Alemão, COVID-19, favelas, Lana de Souza, LLILAS, Papo Reto, Renata Trajano, Rio de Janeiro

In Memoriam: Nora England, Visionary Linguist and Mentor

September 27, 2022

By SUSANNA SHARPE NORA ENGLAND’S PASSION FOR LINGUISTICS was sparked in college, where, almost on a whim, she enrolled in a field methods course. “That really got me going—actually hearing data from another language and paying attention to it,” she recalled in an interview, describing one lecture … [Read more...] about In Memoriam: Nora England, Visionary Linguist and Mentor

Tagged With: CILLA, Guatemala, Indigenous languages, Maya linguistics, Nora England, Susanna Sharpe, University of Texas at Austin

Estampa: A Walk with Mauricio Tenorio

September 27, 2022

By RODRIGO SALIDO MOULINIÉ Historian Mauricio Tenorio Trillo was the opening keynote speaker at the 2022 Lozano Long Conference, “Archiving Objects of Knowledge with Latin American Perspectives,” an interdisciplinary online conference organized by Associate Professor Lina Del Castillo and hosted by … [Read more...] about Estampa: A Walk with Mauricio Tenorio

Tagged With: LLILAS Benson, Lozano Long Conference, Mauricio Tenorio, mexicanismos, Rodrigo Salido Moulinié

Street Protests and Land Use: Theorizing Spatial Inequality in Brazil

September 27, 2022

By FERNANDO LUIZ LARA IN JUNE OF 2013, over forty UT Austin faculty members and a similar number of Brazilian officials met in the halls of Congress in Brasília, celebrating the signing of agreements and research partnerships. The future looked so bright then, and I remember stressing the … [Read more...] about Street Protests and Land Use: Theorizing Spatial Inequality in Brazil

Tagged With: Ana Paula Koury, Brazil, Brazilian politics, Fernando Luiz Lara, protests

To the Reader

September 3, 2021

ON FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020, The University of Texas at Austin announced that it was canceling classes and closing the campus due to community spread of COVID-19. From that day forward, members of the LLILAS Benson community began to figure out how we would live, work, support our loved ones, shop for … [Read more...] about To the Reader

Tagged With: Adela Pineda Franco, Benson Centennial, COVID-19, Javier Auyero, LLILAS Benson, Melissa Guy, Olmec head, Susanna Sharpe, University of Texas at Austin

In Memoriam: Dr. Teresa Lozano Long

September 3, 2021

BY SUSANNA SHARPE Beloved philanthropist and educator Dr. Teresa Lozano Long passed away peacefully on March 21, 2021, with Joe R. Long, her loving husband of 63 years, holding her hand. She was 92. Teresa Lozano Long was born July 20, 1928, in Premont, Texas, and grew up there on her parents’ … [Read more...] about In Memoriam: Dr. Teresa Lozano Long

Tagged With: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long, LLILAS, LLILAS Benson, National Endowment for the Humanities, Teresa Lozano Long, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Texas Exes, University of Texas at Austin

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

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