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From the Director

October 30, 2020

THIS IS MY LAST DIRECTOR'S LETTER for Portal, and while time feels as if it’s flown by, LLILAS Benson has achieved many milestones since my term began. In the past four years, the partnership between the academic unit, LLILAS, and the library, Benson, grew from an experiment in collaborative … [Read more...] about From the Director

Tagged With: Benson Centennial, Benson Latin American Collection, Latin American studies, LLILAS Benson, The University of Texas at Austin

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

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

The Power of Giving

October 27, 2020

A Lifetime of Giving: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long THE CENTENNIAL of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection in 2021 is cause for joyful celebration. The Benson’s partnership with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS), initiated in 2011, ushered in a decade … [Read more...] about The Power of Giving

Tagged With: Adriana Pacheco, Benson 100, Benson Centennial, Benson Latin American Collection, Dr. Carlos E. Castañeda, LLILAS Benson, Teresa Lozano Long, University of Texas Libraries

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

From the Director (2018–19)

August 20, 2019

We enjoyed an extended spring in Austin this year, with abundant rains and cool temperatures that have brought a vibrant season of Texas wildflowers and balmy outdoor time before the beginning of our long hot season. As usual, our academic year was hectic and productive. During the week of … [Read more...] about From the Director (2018–19)

Tagged With: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long, LLILAS Benson, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Virginia Garrard

Staff Spotlight: Paloma Díaz-Lobos

August 20, 2019

BY SUSANNA SHARPE PALOMA DÍAZ-LOBOS HAS MADE HER MARK on LLILAS Benson in a variety of job titles. Yet even her recent appointment as Associate Director of Programs only hints at the work that Díaz-Lobos accomplishes in the space of an academic year, or a semester, or even, perhaps, in a single … [Read more...] about Staff Spotlight: Paloma Díaz-Lobos

Tagged With: Latin American Studies Association, LLILAS Benson, Paloma Díaz, Paloma Díaz-Lobos, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Salmon Production in Chile: The Making of a Commodity Region

August 20, 2019

BY BEATRIZ BUSTOS CHILE is a country commonly known for its turbulent political past and its economic achievements over the last twenty years. Neoliberal policies such as privatization and deregulation have been implemented there under the premise that open and free access to global markets … [Read more...] about Salmon Production in Chile: The Making of a Commodity Region

Tagged With: Beatriz Bustos, Chile, LLILAS Benson, Los Lagos, salmon, salmon farming

Reconceptualizing Trans-Centered Research in 21st-Century Brazil

August 20, 2019

BY JOSHUA REASON FOR DAY OF THE DEAD LAST YEAR, toward the end of my Fulbright research in Salvador da Bahia, I attended “Elas Não Morreram” (They Did Not Die), a drag show commemorating the five-year anniversary of Coletivo das Liliths, an LGBTQI1 theater collective I had become acquainted with … [Read more...] about Reconceptualizing Trans-Centered Research in 21st-Century Brazil

Tagged With: Brazil, Joshua Reason, LGBTQI, LGBTT, LLILAS Benson, salvador da bahia, trans, transgender, travesti

The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership

August 20, 2019

BY EDWARD SHORE CARLITOS DA SILVA was an activist and community leader from São Pedro, one of 88 settlements founded by descendants of escaped slaves known in Portuguese as quilombos, located in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil’s Ribeira Valley (Vale da Ribeira). During the early 1980s, amid an … [Read more...] about The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership

Tagged With: Black Diaspora, Black Diaspora Archive, Edward Shore, land rights, LLILAS Benson, post-custodial archives, quilombolas, quilombos, Vale do Ribeira Brazil

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