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LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections raises awareness of past and current issues affecting Latin America and U.S. Latina/o communities through its world-class collections, globalized higher education, research, international exchange, and public programs.
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LLILAS BENSON NEWS • June 1-30, 2020
Read a Message to the LLILAS Benson Community
"Once again, our nation has failed to deliver on its foundational pledge to respect
the innate equality and human value of all persons. Once again, we find ourselves
in a place where inaction is the handmaiden of complicity and where Silence = Death."
— Virginia Garrard, Director, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections
Read Garrard's message here
EVENTS
Racismo en Centroamérica: Un foro virtual
El Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos de Stanford University (Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University) y LLILAS Benson Colecciones y Estudios Latinoamericanos de UT Austin se orgullecen en presentar el foro virtual Racismo en Centroamérica: La comunidad frente al estado.
Jueves, 25 de Junio
17:00 - 18:30 EDT
16:00 - 17:30 CDT
14:00 - 15:30 PDT
Livestream:
https://tinyurl.com/racismoencentroamerica
Global Professional Training: Latin America
June 9-18 (online)
This conference, organized by Texas Global, will allow UT students to participate in specialized dialogues about the Latin American region and develop marketable professional skills while exploring Latin America-related careers and relevant UT courses and programs. GPT details.
Critical Literacy for Global Citizens Summer Institute
June 15-18 (online)
This institute will focus on incorporating diverse texts from the US and rest of the world into the classroom in order to support critical literacy development and global competence. Details can be found here.
LLILAS BENSON NEWS
Meet the LLILAS Benson staff!
We are delighted to welcome our new Chief of Staff, Art Flores, who joined us on June 1. Art served previously as the Finance and Administrative Manager for the UT Department of History.
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New Collections Highlighted in Latin American Digital Initiatives Repository
More than 60,000 scanned images from seven archival collections throughout Latin America are now available online via the updated Latin American Digital Initiatives repository, ladi.lib.utexas.edu, a trilingual website. Learn more: New Collections on LADI.
Peru in the 1920s: New Online Exhibition
Check out LLILAS Benson's newest online exhibition, Peru in the 1920s, a selection of postcards from the Benson Collection that document Peru's landmarks, daily urban life, local industries and natural environment of one century ago. Created by LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship and Special Collections intern Elizabeth Peattie. Visit Peru in the 1920s.
FACULTY NEWS
Gloria González-López honored by ASA
LLILAS faculty affiliate Gloria González-López (Sociology / Women's and Gender Studies) has won the American Sociological Association's Section on Sexuality's Simon-Gagnon Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations!
Cómo es la opresión racial
LLILAS-affiliated professors Javier Auyero (Sociology) and Gabriela Polit (Spanish & Portuguese) write in Revista Anfibia about racial oppression (article in Spanish)."
Inside Paraguay’s Coronavirus Shelters
Paola Canova (LLILAS / Anthropology) discusses the health crisis in her native Paraguay in this NACLA article.
ALUMNI and STUDENT NEWS
Prisca Gayles discute racismo estructural en los EE.UU.
Entrevista con nuestra ex-alumna, Dra. Prisca Gayles, sobre las movilizaciones en los Estados Unidos en repudio al asesinato de George Floyd y del racismo estructural.
LLILAS PhD candidate Davi Pereira Jr. on quilombolas
PhD candidate Davi Pereira Jr. talks about the plight of Brazil’s quilombola communities and their fight against eradication in Brazil. See interview here.
ICYMI (In case you missed it ...)
LLILAS Benson celebrates the 2020 graduates in Latin American Studies. View the musical slide show!
OPPORTUNITIES
Study Portuguese at UT
Don't miss the opportunity to take Portuguese classes while you are at UT. Read more here
Major in Latin American Studies
Learn about the undergraduate major in Latin American Studies, a course of study that emphasizes diversity and interdisciplinarity. Funding available! Watch our new video. Learn more on our website.
LLILAS FACULTY BOOKS, 2020
Radical Cartographies: Participatory Mapmaking from Latin America
Edited by Bjørn Sletto, Community and Regional Planning
Details here
Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in
Trinidad
J. Brent Crosson, Dept. of Religious Studies
Details here
The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America
Edited by
Daniel Brinks, Dept. of Government
Steve Levitzky, Harvard University
Victoria Murillo, Columbia University
Details here
Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world
Edited by
Sandro Sessarego, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
Juan J. Colomiña-Almiñana, Dept. of Mexican American & Latina/o Studies
Adrián Rodríguez Riccelli, SUNY Buffalo
Details here
Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World
Alan Covey, Dept. of Anthropology
Details here
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity
Edited by
Virginia Garrard, Depts. of History and Religious Studies
Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, CSU
David Orique, Providence College
Details here
Defiant Geographies: Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro
Lorraine Leu, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
Details here
Human Figuration and Fragmentation in Preclassic Mesoamerica: From Figurines to Sculpture
Julia Guernsey, Dept. of Art and Art History
Details here
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