ON FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020, The University of Texas at Austin announced that it was canceling classes and closing the campus due to community spread of COVID-19. From that day forward, members of the LLILAS Benson community began to figure out how we would live, work, support our loved ones, shop for … [Read more...] about To the Reader
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In Memoriam: Dr. Teresa Lozano Long
BY SUSANNA SHARPE Beloved philanthropist and educator Dr. Teresa Lozano Long passed away peacefully on March 21, 2021, with Joe R. Long, her loving husband of 63 years, holding her hand. She was 92. Teresa Lozano Long was born July 20, 1928, in Premont, Texas, and grew up there on her parents’ … [Read more...] about In Memoriam: Dr. Teresa Lozano Long
Welcoming a New Director
Dr. Adela Pineda Franco — First Latin American Woman to Lead LLILAS ADELA PINEDA FRANCO, a scholar in the humanities, joins the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies as its new director beginning fall 2021. Dr. Pineda Franco comes to The University of Texas at Austin from Boston … [Read more...] about Welcoming a New Director
The Pandemic at the Urban Margins: COVID-19 and Networks of Support in Buenos Aires
BY SOFÍA SERVIAN AND JAVIER AUYERO HOW DO THE URBAN POOR SURVIVE? Roughly half a century ago, anthropologist Larissa Lomnitz conducted fieldwork in Cerrada del Condor, a shantytown of about 200 houses in Mexico City, to answer just that question. The outcome of that field research was the … [Read more...] about The Pandemic at the Urban Margins: COVID-19 and Networks of Support in Buenos Aires
Crónica: Las botas de la Lola
Foreword: The Art of Storytelling Among our amazing students, there is a generalized need to tell stories. Stories about their research, or about personal experiences during their time in the field. Sometimes, students have told me, they meet people whose lives they find compelling, whose … [Read more...] about Crónica: Las botas de la Lola
Dr. Manuel G. Galaviz: From Undocumented Youth to Scholar and Mentor
DR. MANUEL (MANNY) G. GALAVIZ will join the Division of Cultural Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2021. Dr. Galaviz earned his PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from The University of Texas at Austin in December 2020. His … [Read more...] about Dr. Manuel G. Galaviz: From Undocumented Youth to Scholar and Mentor
Indigenous Languages Thrive at UT Austin: Quechua, Nahuatl, and K’iche’
BY SUSANNA SHARPE The Indigenous Languages Initiative (ILI), established in 2013, builds on LLILAS Benson’s longstanding commitment to fomenting and supporting the study of Indigenous languages and cultures. The primary goal of ILI is threefold: (1) provide high-quality courses taught by native … [Read more...] about Indigenous Languages Thrive at UT Austin: Quechua, Nahuatl, and K’iche’
Poesía: Disolución gramatical
POR ANA LÓPEZ H before there was land and lust and breathing turning into dust and killable people in god’s dull trust. there was us. there was only us. meaning water and blood and bone and stone and sun and change and we remain. outlasting everything. — Alexis Pauline Gumbs la gramática … [Read more...] about Poesía: Disolución gramatical
The Exhibition on Your Screen: Selected Images from “A New Spain, 1521–1821”
BY ALBERT A. PALACIOS THE VICEROYALTY OF NEW SPAIN was a royal territory in the Spanish Empire formed soon after the invasion and conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521. Even though the viceroyalty was not formally founded until 1535, the Spanish Crown set its administrative bedrock the year after … [Read more...] about The Exhibition on Your Screen: Selected Images from “A New Spain, 1521–1821”
Confessions of an Archives Convert: Reflecting on the Genaro García Collection
BY DIEGO A. GODOY VOLUMINOUS LISTS OF BANNED OR REDACTED BOOKS, laced with sanctimonious commentary—or, early-modern Spanish “cancel culture.” The illustrated family tree of a womanizing, bald curate named Miguel Hidalgo. Op-eds fawning over every viperous protagonist of the … [Read more...] about Confessions of an Archives Convert: Reflecting on the Genaro García Collection
