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Selections from the LADI Repository

October 30, 2020

BY DAVID A. BLISS THE LATIN AMERICAN DIGITAL INITIATIVES (LADI) website holds archival collections from six of the Benson’s post-custodial archival partner organizations in Latin America. Beginning in 2014, Benson archivists worked with partner institutions to digitize and describe collections … [Read more...] about Selections from the LADI Repository

Tagged With: Black Diaspora, Human Rights, LADI, Latin American Digital Initiatives, LLILAS Benson, post-custodial archives

Inside the Agrasánchez Collection of Mexican Cinema

October 30, 2020

BY DIEGO GODOY THE YOUNG HIGINIO GRANDA stood soldierly as he faced a mansion on Colón Street in Mexico City. Blond, svelte, and possessing a peninsular accent, he had the ability to pass as a “decent” person. But he was far from it, as his over twenty stints in jail might suggest. … [Read more...] about Inside the Agrasánchez Collection of Mexican Cinema

Tagged With: Agrasánchez, Arturo Ripstein, Benson Latin American Collection, CineClub México, Diego Godoy, Mexican cinema, Mexican Consulate in Austin

The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico

October 30, 2020

BY MATTHEW BUTLER and JOHN ERARD THE ROADS TO MICHOACÁN: MATTHEW BUTLER IT IS SAID that the history of a Mexican pueblo is the history of its lands. What better way, then, to explore that history than through land records such as Michoacán’s hijuelas books? I first came across these … [Read more...] about The Hijuelas Books: Digitizing Indigenous Archives in Mexico

Tagged With: British Library, endangered archives, hijuelas, John Erard, Latin American Digital Initiatives, Matthew Butler, Michoacán, post-custodial archives

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

October 30, 2020

BY ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA BACK IN 1986, when Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz first started speaking to me in my dreams, I would be talking to her on the phone—that old rotary black phone my grandparents used to have—but I could see her clearly, wearing her black and white Hieronymite habit and my black … [Read more...] about Decolonial Feminists Unite! Dorothy Schons and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Tagged With: Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Benson Latin American Collection, Dorothy Schons, Georgina Sabat-Rivers, Octavio Paz, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

To and From the “Real” World: Concrete Art and Poetry in Latin America

October 30, 2020

BY JULIA DETCHON IN THE FALL OF 1945, gathered at the Buenos Aires homes of the psychoanalyst Enrique Pichón-Rivière and the photographer Grete Stern, a group of Argentine artists hatched an idea for a new movement based on abstract principles of painting. Under the name Arte Madí, they declared … [Read more...] about To and From the “Real” World: Concrete Art and Poetry in Latin America

Tagged With: Benson Latin American Collection, Concrete art, Concrete poetry, Diagonal Cero, Julia Detchon, Madí

Voices of Black Brazilian Feminism: Conversations with Rosana Paulino and Sueli Carneiro

October 28, 2020

EDITED & TRANSLATED by SUSANNA SHARPE THE 2020 LOZANO LONG CONFERENCE, “Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South,” held February 20–21, 2020, was a groundbreaking gathering of Black women scholars, activists, intellectuals, and artists from … [Read more...] about Voices of Black Brazilian Feminism: Conversations with Rosana Paulino and Sueli Carneiro

Tagged With: Black Brazil, Black Brazilian feminism, Black feminism, Christen A. Smith, Cite Black Women, LLILAS Benson, Lorraine Leu, Lozano Long Conference, Rosana Paulino, Sueli Carneiro, Susanna Sharpe

Students Use Digital Tools to Examine “Hidden” Collection of Pre-Colonial Objects

May 22, 2020

Students in Astrid Runggaldier’s Art and Archaeology of Ancient Peru class were tasked with an intriguing project this spring: take a collection of pre-colonial objects that is, for all intents and purposes, invisible, and make it visible using digital tools. Their efforts have come to fruition with … [Read more...] about Students Use Digital Tools to Examine “Hidden” Collection of Pre-Colonial Objects

Tagged With: Art and Art History Collection, Benson Latin American Collection, Chimu, Digital humanities, digital scholarship, LLILAS Benson, Nasca, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas Libraries

“La mitad de mi corazón”: Una entrevista con Montserrat y Fátima Valdivia

April 8, 2020

BY SUSANNA SHARPE Read in English Olimpia Montserrat Valdivia y Fátima Valdivia son hermanas gemelas idénticas de León, Guanajuato, Mexico, que estudian el doctorado en el Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos Teresa Lozano Long (LLILAS) de la Universidad de Texas en Austin. Fátima comenzó … [Read more...] about “La mitad de mi corazón”: Una entrevista con Montserrat y Fátima Valdivia

Tagged With: Fátima Valdivia, LLILAS students, migrantes, Montserrat Valdivia, Tarahumara, UT Austin

“Half of My Heart”: An Interview with Montserrat and Fátima Valdivia

April 8, 2020

BY SUSANNA SHARPE Leer en español Olimpia Montserrat Valdivia and Fátima Valdivia are identical twin sisters from León, Guanajuato, Mexico, who are enrolled in the doctoral program at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at The University of Texas at … [Read more...] about “Half of My Heart”: An Interview with Montserrat and Fátima Valdivia

Tagged With: Central American migration, Fátima Valdivia, LLILAS, LLILAS students, migrants, Montserrat Valdivia, Tarahumara, UT Austin

Faculty Spotlight: Sandro Sessarego

August 20, 2019

BY SUSANNA SHARPE WE DON'T OFTEN STOP TO THINK about why we speak the way we speak, or how some of our linguistic habits came to be. But this is one of the things linguists like Sandro Sessarego pay great attention to. Sessarego (pronounced seh-SAH-re-go), associate professor in the Department of … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Sandro Sessarego

Tagged With: Afro-Bolivians, Afro-Hispanic languages, Bolivia, contact languages, Sandro Sessarego, slavery in the Americas

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