Gloria E. Chacón will share a chapter from her forthcoming book, Metamestizaje: Indigeneity, Migration, and Diasporas: Challenging Cartographies, which examines Indigenous identity and migration from Mesoamerica to the United States. Through three interconnected themes, Chacón explores the complex relationships between Indigeneity, migration, philosophy, cosmology, and ceremonial practice. The presentation begins by examining contemporary Maya philosophical thought, particularly focusing on...
En 2023, impulsado por un vínculo sostenido durante años con comunidades indígenas en lo que se conoce como Argentina, Dani Zelko, judío latinoamericano anti-sionista, emprende la búsqueda de su linaje. En Oreja madre, Dani Zelko propone una indagación colectiva sobre la espiritualidad, el duelo, la violencia y el territorio. En medio de la exacerbación global de los discursos de odio y con las tecnologías de guerra orientadas a anestesiar la sensibilidad y acallar toda crítica, este libro encarna la tarea difícil de...
Once a month, the World Area Book Awards (Américas Award, Children’s Africana Book Award, Freeman Book Award, Middle East Book Award, & South Asia Book Award) sponsor a free 60-minute webinar on a book recognized by one of the awards and facilitate a discussion with the author on how to incorporate the book into the classroom. We encourage...
In recent decades, an explosion of critical interventions from multiple fields has emphasized the return to the archive as one of the key axes from which central problems of the culture and history of the Americas are thought about, read, and discussed. However, studies on critics and artistic practices have, to different extents, always been anchored in and in conversation with the archive.
This set of presentations sought to reflect on the way in which Latin American studies have positioned themselves...
Gabriela Wiener is a Peruvian writer, poet, and journalist. She is currently a columnist for the Peruvian newspaper La República, a correspondent for the magazine Etiqueta Negra, and a frequent contributor to ...
