One year ago, on March 18th, 2022, I was lecturing via Zoom on the history of Ukraine and Ukrainian cartography in the city of Kherson. My public talk to a classroom of students, faculty, and administrators was entitled “Ukraine Mapped: Between History and Geopolitics.” My talk was not normal. Kherson is a strategic port city […]
IHS Workshop: Whose Decolonization? The Collection of Andean Ancestors and the Silences of American History
A discussion on Dr. Christopher Heaney’s article “Skull Walls: The Peruvian Dead and the Remains of Entanglement,” American Historical Review, 2022. Christopher Heaney’s “Skull Walls” offers a new history for the foundations of American anthropology and scientific racism, locating their paradigm of collecting Indigenous ancestors in early US encounters with Peruvian and Andean colonial and republican knowledge […]
NEP Faculty Feature: Dr. Daina Ramey Berry
As some of our readers may know, the Chair of the History department, Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, will leave UT to become the next Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at UC Santa Barbara. In addition to being a brilliant scholar, inspirational teacher, and remarkable leader, Dr. Berry has also been an incredible […]
Re-imagining Public History: A Tribute to Joan Neuberger
by the Editor of Not Even Past, Adam Clulow As Not Even Past winds down for another academic year, we want to take a moment to celebrate the remarkable contribution of Dr. Joan Neuberger, our Founding Editor, who will be retiring from the University of Texas this summer. Joan guided the magazine for almost a […]
Coding Viceregal Art: Project Arca and Spanish Visual Culture Within the Digital Humanities
In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to better visualize the ethical and political implications of archival practices globally. The conference was held in February 2022 and the videos of all the presentation will be available soon. Thinking […]
“Reflections on Resistance”: Memoria Abierta preserves the documentary legacies of heroes who faced down the junta
by Paula O’Donnell In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to better visualize the ethical and political implications of archival practices globally. The conference was held in February 2022 and the videos of all the presentation will be […]
NEP Second Edition: Casta Paintings
From the Editors: Not Even Past Second Editions update and republish some of our most important and widely read articles. In 1746 Dr. Andrés Arce y Miranda, a creole attorney from Puebla, Mexico, criticized a series of paintings known as the cuadros de castas or casta paintings. Offended by their depictions of racial mixtures of […]
Review of The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil (2007)
by Rodrigo Salido Moulinié Jens Andermann, The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. The Optic of the State explores a wide array of images, image-making processes, and display methods in nineteenth-century Argentina and Brazil. Jens Andermann argues that the ideas of the state as […]
IHS Podcast: Apache Diaspora in Four Hundred Years of Colonialism vs. “Toltec Antiquities” Diaspora in Early Republican Mexico”
IHS podcasts are a new podcast series initiated by the Institute for Historical Studies’ Director, Dr Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. They are paired with weekly workshops and are designed to foster discussion between graduate students and distinguished scholars in the field. Along with graduate students and guests, each episode features Dr Cañizares-Esguerra and Ashley Garcia, a PhD […]
Conversations with Dr. Miruna Achim
by Camila Ordorica In honor of the centennial of the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the 2022 Lozano Long Conference focuses on archives with Latin American perspectives in order to better visualize the ethical and political implications of archival practices globally. The conference was held in February 2022 and the videos of all the presentation will be […]