Tag: Cuba opening
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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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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…
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Scherezade García: The Blue Liquid Highway
ARTIST SCHEREZADE GARCÍA refers to the Atlantic as a “blue liquid highway,” a “profound obstacle” that provokes her imagination. “The blue sea represents the way out…
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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…
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River Mumma: Fluid Crossings and Mermaid Spirits in Revival Zion Religion
by KHYTIE K. BROWN THIS STORY BEGINS with a Jamaican folk tale about a mermaid spirit who inhabits the rivers, and sometimes the seas, of…
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Finding God over the Airwaves: Is Religious Media Driving Protestant Growth in Latin America?
BY GUSTAVO FUCHS PROTESTANTISM HAS BEEN ON THE RISE across Latin America for decades. Scholars have tackled this historic trend by examining the underlying social…
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Which Box to Check? The Adoption Story at the Center of My Master’s Thesis
BY ANA KEARNEY I was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1993, but have spent the majority of my life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I am…
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A Town amid the Waters: The Building of a Hydroelectric Dam in Eastern Antioquia, Colombia
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…
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A Century of Perspective: A Conversation with Professor Emeritus Karl M. Schmitt
PROFESSOR EMERITUS KARL MICHAEL SCHMITT joined the faculty of the Department of Government at The University of Texas at Austin in 1958, where he spent…
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Exhibition Highlight – Martín Fierro: From Marginal Outlaw to National Symbol
IT HAS BEEN 150 YEARS since the publication of Argentina’s renowned epic poem, El gaucho Martín Fierro, by José Hernández. In spring 2022, graduate research…
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Embodied Geographies: Feminist Body-Mapping with Amazonian Indigenous Girls, Cuerpo-Territorio, and the Outlining of a New Academic Grammar
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…