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Staff Pick: Catalina de Erauso o sea la monja de alferes

October 29, 2020

Catalina de Erauso o sea La monja de alferes, XIX century, an unpublished version of the legendary life of Catalina de Erauso (1592–1650) BY BROOKE WOMACK SOMETIME IN 2018, I bought myself a copy of Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell. This book has plates of gouache paintings by the author depicting … [Read more...] about Staff Pick: Catalina de Erauso o sea la monja de alferes

Tagged With: Archives, Benson Latin American Collection, Brooke Womack, Butch Heroes, Catalina de Erauso, Genaro García Collection

Staff Pick: The Astonishing Artistic Gem of Manuel de Quiroz y Campo Sagrado

October 28, 2020

La inocencia acrisolada de los pacientes jesuanos, 1816 BY SUSANNA SHARPE In my search for rarely seen treasures from the Benson Latin American Collection, I consulted former colleague José Montelongo, co-editor of A Library for the Americas, a beautifully illustrated volume of collected … [Read more...] about Staff Pick: The Astonishing Artistic Gem of Manuel de Quiroz y Campo Sagrado

Tagged With: Benson Latin American Collection, Genaro García Collection, Julián Hugo Guajardo Esparza, Manuel de Quiroz y Campo Sagrado, María Isabel Terán Elizondo

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

Students Use Digital Tools to Examine “Hidden” Collection of Pre-Colonial Objects

May 22, 2020

Students in Astrid Runggaldier’s Art and Archaeology of Ancient Peru class were tasked with an intriguing project this spring: take a collection of pre-colonial objects that is, for all intents and purposes, invisible, and make it visible using digital tools. Their efforts have come to fruition with … [Read more...] about Students Use Digital Tools to Examine “Hidden” Collection of Pre-Colonial Objects

Tagged With: Art and Art History Collection, Benson Latin American Collection, Chimu, Digital humanities, digital scholarship, LLILAS Benson, Nasca, Student Research, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas Libraries

Cuba’s Revolutionary Comics: The Caridad Blanco Collection of Historietas Cubanas

August 20, 2019

BY ADRIAN JOHNSON COMIC BOOKS, originally created as entertainment for children, were long relegated to dime-store magazine racks, children’s bookshelves, and the cheap bin at used bookstores. While sales of comics today are struggling, in recent years they have come to occupy a more important … [Read more...] about Cuba’s Revolutionary Comics: The Caridad Blanco Collection of Historietas Cubanas

Tagged With: Adrian Johnson, Benson Latin American Collection, comic books, Cuba, Cuban comic books, historietas cubanas, revolutionary comics

Staff Spotlight: Albert A. Palacios

August 27, 2018

BY SUSANNA SHARPE Albert A. Palacios possesses an insatiable thirst for knowledge and the energy to match. In the almost fifteen years since he moved to Austin as an undergraduate, he has earned four degrees, finished the coursework for a PhD, studied in an array of disciplines, and contributed … [Read more...] about Staff Spotlight: Albert A. Palacios

Tagged With: Albert A. Palacios, Benson Latin American Collection, Digital archives, Digital humanities, digital scholarship

Anzaldúa across Borders: A Traveling Thought Gallery

August 27, 2017

BY SUSANNA SHARPE An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are cables that hold up the bridge. —Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987 When Chicana author, cultural theorist, and feminist Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa died in 2004, she … [Read more...] about Anzaldúa across Borders: A Traveling Thought Gallery

Tagged With: Archives, Benson Latin American Collection, Chicana literature, feminism, Gloria Anzaldúa

Cardenal in Hard Times

August 24, 2017

BY LUIS E. CÁRCAMO-HUECHANTE Leer en español It was the winter of 1979. I was already in my fourth year of high school in Valdivia, in southern Chile, when my literature teacher surprised my class by bringing in a record player. As she turned it on, a singular voice came out, with an accent … [Read more...] about Cardenal in Hard Times

Tagged With: Benson Latin American Collection, Chile, Ernesto Cardenal, LLILAS Benson, Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Nicaragua

Archiving Human Rights Documentation: The Promise of the Post-Custodial Approach in Latin America

August 5, 2016

BY THERESA E. POLK Guatemala’s internal armed conflict was brutal by all accounts, and justice for human rights violations has been notoriously difficult to attain in its wake. Yet there have also been some critical milestones, including convictions in 2010 for the forced disappearance of labor … [Read more...] about Archiving Human Rights Documentation: The Promise of the Post-Custodial Approach in Latin America

Tagged With: archiving, Benson Latin American Collection, Black Diaspora, Central America, Human Rights, post-custodial archives, Theresa Polk

LLILAS Benson and the Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Patrimony of Mexico

July 29, 2016

BY KELLY McDONOUGH One of the main attractions among the rare books and manuscripts at the Benson Latin American Collection is a group of late-sixteenth-century manuscripts and maps known as the Relaciones Geográficas (or RGs for short). As described in the Benson’s web portal to the RGs, these … [Read more...] about LLILAS Benson and the Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Patrimony of Mexico

Tagged With: Benson Latin American Collection, Cholula, Cholula map, Indigenous Issues, Kelly McDonough, repatriation of cultural patrimony, Tlachihualtepetl

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