NEWS and EVENTS 
 
March 15–April 15, 2021

COVID-19 VACCINATIONS

Get the latest information about vaccination for the UT Austin community at https://protect.utexas.edu/vaccine/. Eligible members of the non-university public can now be vaccinated through UT's program. Click here to learn more.


 

¡A Viva Voz! Returns . . . Virtually

Scene Onscreen: An Evening with JoAnn and Rupert Reyes, Founders of Teatro Vivo

Thursday, April 1 | 7–9 pm CDT

Our signature event celebrating the Benson's US Latina/o collections, the 19th annual ¡A Viva Voz! features scenes from Teatro Vivo productions of plays by Rupert Reyes, and a conversation led by Theatre & Dance professor Roxanne Schroeder-Arce.

Learn more here. Register for event link at attend.com/AVV2021. 

 

 

NEWS

 

Digital Scholarship Teaching Partnerships Announced

The Digital Scholarship Office is proud to announce its new teaching partnerships for 2021-2022 with faculty from the Departments of History, Spanish & Portuguese, and Anthropology: Drs. Craig Campbell, Hiʻilei Hobart, Circe Sturm, Monica M. Martinez, and César A Salgado. Learn more at DS Partnerships.

EVENTS
 

New Faculty Talk: Thomas Garrison

Monday, March 22 | 12 pm CDT | Facebook Live

Thomas Garrison presents "From Communal to Institutional: Architecture and Ritual as Indicators of Emerging Inequality among the Preclassic Maya." Garrison (Dept. of Geography and the Environment) will present his work and discuss with Edwin Román-Ramírez, Proyecto Arqueológico del Sur de Tikal. View on the LLILAS Events page.
 

Photo by T. Garrison/PAEZ







 

Mexico’s Energy Sector at a Crossroads

Thursday, March 25 | 12:30 pm CDT | Facebook Live

Panelists Aldo Flores-Quiroga (visiting Professor, LBJ), Miriam Grunstein (Brilliant Energy), David Spence (School of Law; McCombs School), and Pablo Zárate (FTI Consulting Mexico) will analyze the bill recently proposed by Mexican President López Obrador to amend the Electricity Industry Law. Moderated by José María Lujambio (CCN-Law). Learn more here. 

 

 

 

Malvinas: Una Guerra, Muchas Posguerras

Friday, March 26 | 1:30 pm CDT (5pm Argentina) | Facebook Live

El Programa de Estudios Argentinos de LLILAS Benson presenta una conversación con Federico Lorenz, Instituto Ravignani: "Malvinas: Una Guerra, Muchas Posguerras: Contradicciones y Encuentros en Torno a las Memorias de 1982."

En español sin traducción. Vea el evento.






 

Screening Scribes: Four Films on Cuban Writers III—"En un rincón del alma"

Thursday, April 8 | 5:00 pm CDT | Facebook Live

The third installment of the Screening Scribes film series on Cuban writers, Professor César A. Salgado leads a conversatorio (Spanish only) with filmmaker Jorge Dalton, director of the 2016 documentary about the late Cuban novelist, journalist, and screenwriter Eliseo Alberto. 

Register at http://bit.ly/3qiF8ou to stream  the film from April 5–9, via Vimeo. Learn more at Screening Scribes III.

 

 

Digital Scholarship in the Americas Speaker Series presents Dr. Patricia Murrieta-Flores

Monday, April 12 | 10–11:30 pm CDT | Register here

Dr. Patricia Murrieta-Flores, director of Lancaster University's Digital Humanities Hub, presents "Old Resources, New Technologies: Developing Computational Approaches for the Analysis of Mexican Historical Documents." Register at Eventbrite to receive a link to this online presentation.

Presented in conjunction with the digital exhibition launch of A New Spain, 1521–1821.

 

 

 

Research Panels: "Emerging Scholarship on the 'Borderlands' of New Spain:

Wednesday, April 14 | Various times | Register here

Students and faculty from UT Austin and UT El Paso join for three online research panels: "Indigenous Agency and Negotiation in New Spain" (10am CDT, 9am MDT), "Spanish Northern Borderlands" (12pm CDT, 11am MDT), and "Exchange in the Novohispano Frontier" (2pm CDT, 1pm MDT).

Register on Eventbrite to attend one or more research panels.



 

 

 

SAVE THE DATE: Congreso Internacional
"Las indígenas de Michoacán y la privatización de la tierra en los libros de hijuelas, siglos XIX y XX" 

20-22 de Mayo |  Modalidad virtual (Zoom)

Este congreso reúne investigadores de México, Estados Unidos y Europa para hablar del proceso del reparto de tierras indígenas en Michoacán durante la segunda parte del Siglo XIX. Este trabajo se basa en los llamados libros de hijuelas, recientemente digitalizados.

Inscripción en Congreso Hijuelas. Para mayor información: congresohijuelas@utexas.edu.
 

 

STUDENT PUBLICATIONS & NEWS

Fátima Valdivia

LLILAS PhD candidate Fátima Valdivia is co-author, with Juan Okowí, of "Drug Trafficking in the Tarahumara Region: An analysis of racism and dispossession," published in Science Direct.
 

Jorge Choy-Gómez

LLILAS PhD candidate Jorge Choy-Gómez is author of the article "Power and Spectacle on Mexico's Southern Border," published last month by NACLA.















 

UT Latin Americanists Publish in Sociology Journal

Latin Americanist graduate students in the Department of Sociology have published their research in the Winter 2021 issue of Contexts: Sociology for the Public. See this issue for work by Maricarmen Hernández, Katherine Sobering, Katherine Jenson, and Alex Diamond. The research was funded in part by LLILAS and by the Lozano Long Professorship.

 

 

 

¡Enhorabuena!

Numerous LLILAS graduate students have received fellowships and other prestigious support for their outstanding research. Angela Tapia has been named Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Ana Braconnier and Davi Pereira won Graduate School Dissertation Writing Fellowships. Ruth Matamoros won a Thematic Fellowship, and Alexandra Lamiña and Montserrat Valdivia received Continuing Fellowships. Fátima Valdivia received a Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellowship for 2021–22 at UC San Diego. 

More details are forthcoming on LLILAS social media and homepage.
 

 

Recent Public Events Available for Viewing

Marcela Lagarde International Women's Day Lecture: The Covid-19 Pandemic & Violence against Women


Charla con Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, escritora argentina

 

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