Tag: Rio Grande Valley
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The Roque Dalton Archive at the Benson Latin American Collection
Author James Iffland, the pre-eminent biographer of Salvadoran revolutionary and writer Roque Dalton, writes about Dalton’s life and his important archive at the Benson Latin…
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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…
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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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To the Reader, Fall 2024
EACH FALL, the publication of Portal magazine affords us an opportunity to showcase LLILAS and the Benson, both as two separate units and as a…
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Lives in Motion: Human and Animal Migration in Times of Environmental Change
With the support of a President’s Award for Global Learning, a group of 15 undergraduate students are developing independent research projects and audiovisual narratives with…
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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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Joseph Stiglitz and Martín Guzmán: Development and Debt Challenges in Latin America
By ADELA PINEDA FRANCO In spring 2024, LLILAS hosted Nobel Laureate in Economics Joseph Stiglitz and former Minister of Economy of Argentina (2019–2022) Martín Guzmán.…
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Lost and Future Cities: Explorations in the Wilderness and Imaginaries of Modernities in Brazil
By BEATRIZ JAGUARIBE Blank Spaces and Amazonian Imaginaries LIBRARIES EVOKE other libraries. The turning of pages leads to other geographies of letters that emerge as…
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Benson Acquisition: César Vallejo Papers
The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the literary archives of César Vallejo and Augusto Roa Bastos, two…