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Benson Centennial

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

A Centennial Gift Honoring One of the Benson’s Own

September 3, 2021

The year 2021 marks the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, bringing promise of a triumphant future and cause for celebration today. Former head librarian Ann Hartness, renowned for her 38-year career at the Benson and her contributions to Brazilian studies, is being … [Read more...] about A Centennial Gift Honoring One of the Benson’s Own

Tagged With: Ann Hartness, Benson Centennial, Benson Latin American Collection, Brazil collections, Elizabeth Ulmer, Jonathan Graham, University of Texas Libraries

In Memoriam: Dr. David Block III

September 3, 2021

BY SUSANNA SHARPE LLILAS BENSON MOURNS the passing of friend, scholar, and former colleague David Block III, on June 15, 2021. Block was head of the Benson Latin American Collection from 2009 until his retirement in 2014. Born in San Diego, California, in 1945, Block grew up in Arkansas, … [Read more...] about In Memoriam: Dr. David Block III

Tagged With: Benson Centennial, Benson Latin American Collection, David Block, SALALM

The Back Page: Find Out What’s New for 2021–22

September 3, 2021

2022 Lozano Long Conference, February 24–25 IN HONOR OF the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference initiates a conversation on archives with Latin American perspectives and practices. Archives, broadly speaking, are sites where the … [Read more...] about The Back Page: Find Out What’s New for 2021–22

Tagged With: Benson 100, Benson Centennial, Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson, Lozano Long Conference, The Benson at 100, University of Texas Libraries

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

From the Director

October 30, 2020

THIS IS MY LAST DIRECTOR'S LETTER for Portal, and while time feels as if it’s flown by, LLILAS Benson has achieved many milestones since my term began. In the past four years, the partnership between the academic unit, LLILAS, and the library, Benson, grew from an experiment in collaborative … [Read more...] about From the Director

Tagged With: Benson Centennial, Benson Latin American Collection, Latin American studies, LLILAS Benson, The University of Texas at Austin

Celebrating a Century

October 30, 2020

IT'S DECEMBER 1, 1920, in Mexico City. After witnessing the inauguration of President Álvaro Obregón, University of Texas Regent H.J. Lutcher Stark and Chair of Latin American History Charles Wilson Hackett stumble upon an amazing find as they walk down Madero Street. Historian and head librarian … [Read more...] about Celebrating a Century

Tagged With: Benson 100, Benson Centennial, Benson Latin American Collection, Carlos E. Castañeda, Nettie Lee Benson, The University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas Libraries

Message from the Benson Collection Director

October 30, 2020

I AM SO PROUD to feature the Benson Centennial in Portal. While it is impossible to tell the complete story of this great library in a single issue, nearly every piece of this edition provides a glimpse of what has been created over the past one hundred years, from the foundational Genaro García … [Read more...] about Message from the Benson Collection Director

Tagged With: Benson 100, Benson Centennial, Benson Latin American Collection, Melissa Guy, University of Texas Libraries

The Power of Giving

October 27, 2020

A Lifetime of Giving: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long THE CENTENNIAL of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection in 2021 is cause for joyful celebration. The Benson’s partnership with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), initiated in 2011, ushered in a decade … [Read more...] about The Power of Giving

Tagged With: Adriana Pacheco, Benson 100, Benson Centennial, Benson Latin American Collection, Dr. Carlos E. Castañeda, LLILAS Benson, Teresa Lozano Long, University of Texas Libraries

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