In the sixteenth-century Americas, conquistadors, missionaries, and Indigenous elites and commoners organized spectacles for religious feasts and civic celebrations. This presentation centered on those that mixed plot elements from the Siege of Tenochtitlan with plot elements from battles taking place in the greater Mediterranean. It argued that by envisioning conflict in this corner of the world and relating it back to the invasion of the Valley of Mexico, participants created foundational narratives of New Spain...
The relationship between the United States and Cuba is long, complex, and largely conflictive. The formation and evolution of both countries, along with their geographical proximity, determine the intensity and pervasiveness of their interaction. The national projects that serve as the axis of their histories condition the fundamental nature of this relationship. The Cuban revolution of 1959 was a major turning point in their history, leading to decades of open conflict, driven primarily by U.S. policy towards the island nation....
Desde la pintura, pero también desde otros medios, mi obra ha sido un esfuerzo constante por entender y explicar para mí y para mis contemporáneos el devenir de Cuba como espacio sociopolítico, histórico y cultural; descifrar las claves de su pasado; interpelar el presente y acaso avizorar el futuro. Son intenciones que siempre pueden latir bajo los pigmentos, con una mirada heterodoxa, antirracista y decolonial. Mi voz pretende participar también desde su modesto rincón en los debates culturales de nuestro tiempo....
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...
These lectures explored an anthropogenic history of sound during the first half of the twentieth century (up to the 1960s), a period of intense imperial expansion of the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the first three lectures, Ochoa approached the centrality of media and the development of new sound technologies in such a history. Ochoa particularly focused on the transformation of the relation between histories of life, extractivism, and sound produced by sound technologies. In the last two...
For centuries, we’ve been taught that modern global history began with Columbus’s arrival in America. However, Caroline Dodds Pennock’s groundbreaking book reveals that tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit, and others had already “discovered” Europe. These Indigenous Americans...
Charles Hale is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He has received research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is author of Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987 (1994) and co-editor (with Jeffrey Gould and Darío Euraque) of Memorias del Mestizaje: Cultura y Política en Centroamérica, 1920 al Presente (forthcoming)....
Lorenzo Meyer teaches in the International Studies Department at the Colegio de México in Mexico City, where he also directed the U.S.-Mexican Studies Program. He will be teaching a seminar at CLAS from late February to late March entitled "The U.S. and Mexico: Conflicting Agendas. A View of the Present from an Historical Perspective." Prof. Meyer is the author of eleven books on contemporary Mexico and U.S.-Mexico issues.
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