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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

A Century of Perspective: A Conversation with Professor Emeritus Karl M. Schmitt

September 27, 2022

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 the majority of his career as a prominent Latin Americanist. He became associate director of the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS, now … [Read more...] about A Century of Perspective: A Conversation with Professor Emeritus Karl M. Schmitt

Tagged With: Adela Pineda Franco, Karl M. Schmitt, Latin American studies, LLILAS, University of Texas at Austin

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

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

Faculty Spotlight: Mallory Matsumoto

September 27, 2022

ONE OF THE MANY FASCINATING ASPECTS of Classic Maya civilization (250–900 CE) is that a series of common cultural traits appear in settlements that are widely distributed geographically, yet they do not appear to have originated in one central location. “They were shared among populations that were … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Mallory Matsumoto

Tagged With: David Stuart, LLILAS, Mallory Matsumoto, Maya cluster, Maya hieroglyphs, Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin, wahy

Faculty Spotlight: Amy E. Thompson

September 27, 2022

IN HER RESEARCH, Assistant Professor Amy E. Thompson (Department of Geography and the Environment) uses transdisciplinary approaches of geospatial methods with traditional archaeological techniques to assess wealth inequality, differential access to resources, and community formation among the … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Amy E. Thompson

Tagged With: Amy E. Thompson, David Stuart, Department of Geography and the Environment, LLILAS, Maya archaeology, Mopan Maya, University of Texas at Austin, UT Maya Cluster

Conference Preview: A Water-Centered Perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean

September 26, 2022

2023 Lozano Long Conference WATER IS ESSENTIAL for biological life as we know it, but it is also essential for livelihoods ranging from the individual to the community, on regional, national, and transnational scales. It is no coincidence that the phrase El agua es la vida / Água é vida is the … [Read more...] about Conference Preview: A Water-Centered Perspective on Latin America and the Caribbean

Tagged With: Environment, LLILAS, Lozano Long Conference, water, water shortage

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

In Memoriam: Manuel Tahay

September 3, 2021

Leer en español BY SERGIO ROMERO & SUSANNA SHARPE LLILAS BENSON MOURNS the death of our beloved colleague and friend Manuel de Jesús Tahay Gómez, aka Tat Wel, who died of COVID-19 in Guatemala on August 14. He was 61. A revered educator and scholar of the Maya K’iche’ language and … [Read more...] about In Memoriam: Manuel Tahay

Tagged With: COERLL, COVID-19, Indigenous Issues, Indigenous languages, K'iche', K'iche' Maya, LLILAS, Manuel Tahay, Tat Wel

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