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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 […]
This episode of IHS podcasts highlights the work of Dr. James Sidbury, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University where he is also a faculty member of the Center for African and African American Studies . The episode also features Dr. Cañizares-Esguerra, the Director of the IHS, and Ashley Garcia, a […]
Institute for Historical Studies – Thursday, January 27, 2022 Notes from the Director In New Faces of God in Latin America: Emerging Forms of Vernacular Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2020), Professor Virginia Garrard poses two questions: What are the “New Faces of God” in Latin America? In what way are these new manifestations of “vernacular” Christianity any […]
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 […]
By Zachary Bradley The Flash of Light, Wall of Fire exhibit will be on display at the University of Texas at Austin’s Briscoe Center for American History from August 30, 2021 to January 28, 2022. The exhibit seeks to shows something of the devastation inflicted on the population of Japan by the atomic weapons dropped […]
by Gwendolyn Lockman The best part of reading for comprehensive exams in graduate school is getting to read scholarship that inspires, even if it is not directly related to your dissertation research. I am a historian of labor and leisure in the U.S. West, so my comprehensive exams encompassed readings in U.S. History, divided into […]
In one of the final scenes of Jeymes Samuel’s gripping 2021 Black Western The Harder They Fall, androgynous outlaw Cuffee (played by Danielle Deadwyler) says a teary goodbye to her comrade “Stagecoach” Mary Fields (Zazie Beetz). The two share a long, not-quite-chaste kiss goodbye as Nat Love, Mary’s main romantic interest in the film, shifts […]
IHS podcasts are a new podcast series initiated by the Institute for Historical Studies’ Director, Dr. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. This episode highlights Dr. Virginia Garrard’s most recent book: Faces of God in Latin America: Emerging Forms of Vernacular Christianity (Oxford, 2020). Each episode features Dr. Cañizares-Esguerra and Ashley Garcia, a PhD Candidate in History at UT Austin. Introduction […]
From the Editors: Not Even Past Second Editions update and republish some of our most important and widely read articles. This is an electronic version of an article published in the Colonial Latin American Review © 2005 Copyright Taylor & Francis; Colonial Latin American Review is available online at www.tandfonline.com http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10609160500314980 In 1746 Dr. Andrés Arce […]
Institute for Historical Studies – Wednesday, October 20, 2021 The Harlem Renaissance shaped the ideas and understandings of race in the United States—but also in Mexico. The debates sparked by the New Negro Movement in the 1920s transformed the way artists, writers, and scientists deployed the concepts of race, blackness, nation, and culture—how ideas of […]