Tag: Tecuichpoch
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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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Remembering Dina Sherzer
Adela Pineda Franco reflects on the life of the late Emerita Professor Dina Sherzer.
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Juan Villoro: Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Adela Pineda Franco writes about Juan Villoro’s book “No soy un robot,” in which he contemplates the role of culture in the age of artificial…
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Mesoamerica Meetings Coming Fall 2026
The Mesoamerica Meetings will take place November 5–7, 2026, on the UT Austin campus.
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Time Travel: University Collections Make the Past Come Alive
Professor Astrid Runggaldier discusses the value of using physical collections in to teach about the distant past.
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Meaningful Objects: LLILAS’s Collection of South American Gold Work
By SANTIAGO MUÑOZ-ARBELÁEZ In December 2025, friends of LLILAS gathered to honor benefactor Joe R. Long and to view a selection of rare and ancient…
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Staff Spotlight: Caroline Garriott
Meet Caroline Garriott, a historian who runs the diverse and interdisciplinary programming of the LLILAS Public Engagement Office.
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Mexican Bilingualism Matters: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Mexico’s Language Diversity
This article explains what psycholinguists have learned about bilingualism in Mexico and changes in the brains of individuals exposed to an Indigenous language early in…
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The Evolution of Violence in Latin America
Summarizing a 2025 conference on the evolution of violence in Latin America, Professor Raúl Madrid discusses broad trends over time and the latest scholarship on…
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A Myth-busting Book Reveals the Role of Paperwork in the Spanish Empire
Interview with historians Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters about their recent book, “The Radical Spanish Empire.”
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To the Reader, 2026
A letter to the reader summarizing the contents of the 2025–26 issue of Portal magazine and celebrating achievements of the past year.
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AI and Latin America: Between Colonialism and Aspiration
Iván Chaar López and Edgar Gómez-Cruz discuss the complexities of the universal embrace of AI.