NEWS and EVENTS 
 
July 15–August 15, 2021

LLILAS Welcomes New Director

We are pleased to announce that Adela Pineda Franco will assume the post of Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. Dr. Pineda Franco will also join the faculty of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She is currently professor in the Department of Romance Languages at Boston University.

Read more here.












PODCAST: THE BENSON AT 100 



Bilingual Podcast Is Launched in Honor of the Benson Centennial


The Benson at 100 tells the story of the world-famous library through a series of interviews. Listen to Episode 1, Nettie Lee Benson-ology.

En el primer episodio del podcast La Biblioteca Benson: Los Primeros 100 Años, el historiador Mauricio Tenorio habla sobre la famosa colección latinoamericana. Escucha: Entrevista con Mauricio Tenorio.

Podcast will be streamed via Spotify in English and Spanish.







FEATURED ARTICLE



Alicia Gaspar de Alba on the Life and Death of Sor Juana Scholar Dorothy Schons


Halfway through the centennial year of the Benson Latin American Collection, we invite you to revisit this outstanding article by Chicana feminist scholar and fiction author Alicia Gaspar de Alba, which highlights one of the Benson's most fascinating archives.

Read "Decolonial Feminists Unite! Dorothy Schons and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz."
 

EVENTS
 

 

Bridging Cultural Differences: Solutions for US–Brazil Collaborations

Thursday, July 15 | 3:00 p.m. CDT

Differences in expectations, approaches, and processes can create challenges for Brazilian-US projects and partnerships. In this presentation, Deidre Mendez, UT Austin Center for Global Business, and Orlando Kelm, Portuguese Flagship Program, explore cultural perspectives in the two countries that commonly undermine relationships.

Register now. Livestream on our Facebook page.

See details here.





 

Racismo y activismo en el cono sur

Friday, July 16 | 3:00 p.m. CDT

Join the Stanford Center for Latin American Studies, the University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies, and LILLAS Benson for a panel on race, racism, and activism in the Southern Cone. For more information about the panelists, click here. *This event will be in Spanish.

Zoom Webinar RSVP: tinyurl.com/racismoyactivismo
Event will be live-streamed at: https://tinyurl.com/liveconosur

 

 

FACULTY NEWS

 

 

LLILAS Benson Director and Sociology Professor Javier Auyero in La Nación


Professor Javier Auyero discusses the participation of security forces in drug trafficking and other illicit activities in Argentina. Read the interview here.

 

 

Sergio Romero Receives a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship

Professor Sergio Romero (LLILAS & Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese) has received a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship (2022-2023) that will allow him to further his research on the project “Language, Community and Maya Migration to the United States."








 

 

Sandro Sessarego Awarded Humboldt, Fulbright Fellowships


Professor Sandro Sessarego (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese) received the Humboldt Research Fellowship to support his project "Afro-Veracruz Spanish and the Afro-Hispanic Language Atlas." He has also received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for his project "Variation and Change across the Afro-Hispanic Dialects of the Americas," which analyzes the increasing diffusion of standard Spanish features across a number of non-standard Afro-Hispanic vernaculars.
 

Read more about his research here.



 

 

STUDENT & ALUMNI NEWS




Nuestro graduado es honrado en la prensa hondureña

Rony Castillo es destacado en la prensa como el primer garífuna hondureño en obtener dos doctorados y estudiar la autonomía territorial y educativa de comunidades garífuna.

Lean los artículos aquí:
Contracorriente
En Alta Voz









 

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Food Security and Food Sovereignty during and after Covid


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