The past is never dead. It's not even past
Note: This article was originally published by Life & Letters, the official magazine of the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Letters and Sciences, in January 2023. Some additional illustrations have been added by Not Even Past. The article is reprinted with permission from Life & Letters. When Christen Smith attended a conference in 2017, she […]
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 […]
A Roundtable Inspired byThe Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge(Routledge, December 2022)Co-Edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (University of Texas at Austin) & Mark Thurner (University of London) Simon Schaffer, Kapil Raj, Miruna Achim, and Jimena Canales will engage with the argument of The Invention of Humboldt: On the Geopolitics of Knowledge, an edited collection just […]
Foreword by John Gleb This is the second half of a two-part article. To read the first part, click here. Ivonne del Valle (University of California-Berkeley), Anna More (Universidade de Brasília), and Rachel Sarah O’Toole (University of California-Irvine) are prominent scholars of colonial Latin America. Earlier this year, they sat down with Fernando Gomez Herrero […]
Note: This bilingual article appears first in Spanish and then in English. Silvia Arrom, profesora emérita de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Brandeis, es presidenta de la XVI Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México (Austin, 30 de octubre al 2 de noviembre). Arrom ha tenido una larga y distinguida carrera académica, publicando ampliamente sobre […]
Foreword by John Gleb This is the first half of a two-part article. To read the second part, click here. Ivonne del Valle (University of California-Berkeley), Anna More (Universidade de Brasília), and Rachel Sarah O’Toole (University of California-Irvine) are prominent scholars of colonial Latin America. Earlier this year, they sat down with Fernando Gomez Herrero […]
My favorite director made a movie about my PhD dissertation topic 70 years before I wrote about it. The problem was that I didn’t find out about it until I was several years into my alt-ac career. Discovering the movie was the catalyst I needed to write a book I never thought I’d write. OK, […]
by May Helena Plumb 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 […]
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 Rodrigo Salido Moulinié 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 […]