Tag: Richard Strauss Center for International Security and Law
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Do Indigenous Ecologies Matter?
By BARBARA E. MUNDY AN INVITATION TO THE 2025 LOZANO LONG CONFERENCE, “Urban Entanglements: Centering Marginalized Lives and Ecologies in Latin America,” allowed me to…
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Environmental Amnesia and the Rio Grande: Thoughts on Remembering Where We Are
By C. J. ALVAREZ RIVERS ARE HARD TO UNDERSTAND. I grew up in southern New Mexico about a mile from the Rio Grande. As a…
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The Cristina Rivera Garza Papers
Benson Acquisition News By LAUREN PEÑA DECIDING WHAT TO KEEP, what to let go, and how to care for the objects that tell the story…
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The Unbounded Territories of Cinema: Gael García Bernal at UT Austin
By ADELA PINEDA FRANCO THIS YEAR, the Austin Lecture on Contemporary Mexico, a signature event of the LLILAS Mexico Center, was especially memorable. In celebration…
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To the Reader, 2025
2025 Edition The 2024–2025 academic year stands out at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American…
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A Fight for Democracy: The First Years of the Mexican Revolution
By ALBERT A. PALACIOS and ANA A. RICO This exhibit traces the many revolutions Mexico experienced between 1910 and 1916 to free itself from authoritarianism.…
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Transforming Urban Public Spaces in the Americas: An Interview with Daniel Escotto
DANIEL ESCOTTO is professor of Architectural Theory and History at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and former director of the Public Space Authority of…
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An Evening with the Honorable Michelle Bachelet
By ADELA PINEDA FRANCO and PALOMA DÍAZ THE MARY ANN FAULKNER DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES in Latin American Public Affairs and Politics is LLILAS’s gateway to…
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Before A/C: Keeping Cool in the Humid Tropics: An Interview with Marixa Lasso
In her 2019 book Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal, historian and award-winning author Marixa Lasso wove together lost pieces of history to…
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Enchantments and Entanglements: The Life of an Accused Witch in Seventeenth-Century Cartagena
By CHLOE FOOR IT HAD BEEN OVER A DECADE since she was found guilty of witchcraft by the Inquisition, and Paula de Eguiluz was on…
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Faculty Spotlight: Celeste González de Bustamante
CELESTE GONZÁLEZ DE BUSTAMANTE is chair of the LLILAS Mexico Center and founding director of the Center for Global Change and Media in the Moody…
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LLILAS Benson News
Ocean Current Affairs By JAMES AUSTIN OVER THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, with funding from the National Science Foundation, ConTex, the International Ocean Discovery Program, the…