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 Pablo Abalo will take advantage of access to LLILAS and the Benson Latin American Collection to conduct interdisciplinary research, … [Read more...] about Artist Spotlight: Juan Pablo Abalo
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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 revolution in modern Latin America, popular politics, labor history, global agricultural history, food politics, and U.S.–Latin America … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Joshua Frens-String
Exhibition Spotlight: Battle for Chile & Walls That Speak
Battle for Chile: Cold War, Coup, and the Court of Public Opinion From September 11, 2023, through April 30, 2024, the Hartness Reading Room Gallery at the Benson Latin American Collection will host an exhibition that focuses on Chilean politics and activism in the late 1960s through the … [Read more...] about Exhibition Spotlight: Battle for Chile & Walls That Speak
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 holds joint appointments in the College and the School of the Arts. His research interests include popular music and culture of the … [Read more...] about Beyond the Music: Daniel Party on Víctor Jara and the Many Facets of Musicology
Salmon Production in Chile: The Making of a Commodity Region
BY BEATRIZ BUSTOS CHILE is a country commonly known for its turbulent political past and its economic achievements over the last twenty years. Neoliberal policies such as privatization and deregulation have been implemented there under the premise that open and free access to global markets … [Read more...] about Salmon Production in Chile: The Making of a Commodity Region
Overcoming Statelessness in Chile
BY FELIPE GONZÁLEZ MORALES Statelessness, or the lack of a nationality, is one of the worst conditions in which migrants and their descendants can find themselves. Deprived of a nationality, stateless persons often lack official documents, and have seriously limited access to education, health … [Read more...] about Overcoming Statelessness in Chile
Cardenal in Hard Times
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
