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ICYMI: October 2022
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DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP 2023 FELLOWSHIPS | LLILAS Benson
The LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship Fellowships provide a stipend of up to $3,000 for a graduate student or a non-UT Masters-level (or above) scholar to pursue research or teaching interests in Latin American, U.S. Latine, African Diaspora, or Indigenous Studies using data, born-digital sources (e.g. websites, social media posts), or the Benson Latin American Collection's digitized holdings AND digital methods/platforms (examples). This is a remote fellowship—applicants must limit their proposals to conduct research with data and/or digitized content from the Benson Latin American Collection or its Latin American partners. Please consult the LLILAS Benson Curriculum “Primary Sources” page for a complete list of eligible digital collections and read the attached policies before applying.Los autores españoles buscan su lugar en el mundo tras la Feria de Fráncfort | El País
El mayor encuentro internacional del libro se clausura con una mezcla de optimismo por el aumento de traducciones y el pesimismo por las perspectivas económicas.Ada Limón Is a Poet Laureate for the 21st Century | Smithsonian Magazine
Limón is the first woman of Mexican ancestry to be named poet laureate of the U.S. Few women have filled the role, and fewer women of color still.For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle | New York Times
Aiming to unsettle readers and offer social critique, writers like Samanta Schweblin and Mónica Ojeda are in a new vanguard.Escena de Avanzada Chilena | Princeton University Library
The ample selection of exhibition catalogs, brochures and books by and about experimental artists such as Carlos Altamirano, Eugenio Dittborn, Paz Errázuriz, Alfredo Jaar, Ronald Kay, Carlos Leppe, and Nelly Richard, among others, allowed students to look closely at and discuss how, after the Military Coup of 1973, Chilean artists reconceptualized traditional artistic practices, languages, techniques and genres.Why I think ending article-processing charges will save open access | Nature
The way that the global north pays for publishing hampers public, scholar-led efforts in Latin America.El cine mexicano como una ventana hacia la realidad violenta y dolorosa del país | Sin Embargo
El cine mexicano se ha convertido en una ventana para sensibilizarnos sobre las realidades más crudas, dolorosas y violentas del país. El género documental no es el único interesado en querer mostrar esos escenarios, la ficción ha tomado fuerza y también busca contar esas historias.
Los cien libros españoles del siglo XXI | El País
España es el país invitado de honor de la Feria del Libro de Fráncfort, que empieza el miércoles. Con ese motivo, un jurado de 100 expertos ha elegido los nombres que han marcado las letras españolas desde el año 2000 en las cuatro lenguas oficiales: castellano, catalán, euskera y gallego. El resultado es una guía para orientarse en el bosque de novelas, ensayos, memorias y libros de poemas producido por una industria editorial que publica cada año 80.000 títulos.Todo sobre el libro en España: títulos publicados, ventas, lectores, editoriales, librerías, géneros preferidos… | WMagazín
Radiografía de España como País Invitado de Honor en la Feria de Fráncfort 2022: en la cuarta industria editorial el 35% de su población nunca lee un libro, al año se registran 80.000 títulos, se editan 198 millones de ejemplares, se venden 2.576 millones de euros... y más en este especial.El Museo Getty expone el libro más antiguo de las Américas | Aristegui
La muestra pone el foco en los logros intelectuales y artísticos de los antiguos habitantes de América.Records of Resistance | Princeton University Library
Records of Resistance: Documenting Global Activism 1933 to 2021, Princeton University Library's latest exhibition, includes images that range from sacred Passover Haggadot that embody Jews' spiritual resistance to their oppressors during and immediately after the Holocaust, to dramatic photographs of marchers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, to vibrant posters, pamphlets and photographs created by protesters taking to the streets of Lahore, Pakistan and Santiago, Chile, only a few years ago.Cronología del movimiento estudiantil de 1968 en la prensa mexicana | El País
La mayoría de los periódicos al día siguiente minimizaron la noticia: ""Recio combate al dispersar el Ejército un mitin de Huelguistas"Through a Mexican grandfather's story, the WWII-era Bracero program becomes living history | NBC News
Filmmaker Iliana Sosa's grandfather was one of millions of Mexicans who spent a big part of their lives traveling to work in the U.S. through a program created to address labor shortages.Without these Latino composers, Hollywood wouldn't sound the same | NPR
Since the early days of Hollywood, Latin American composers have created theme songs and soundtracks for some of the most classic movies and TV shows.Muere David Huerta, maestro de poetas y escritor de ‘Ayotzinapa': “Era un gusto conversar con él, nunca sabías lo que iba a decir” | El País
El autor ha fallecido a los 72 años en su casa. Sus amigos y alumnos le recuerdan como un ser “luminoso” que siempre estuvo comprometido con los problemas de la sociedad mexicana.La feria Liber dobla su número de visitantes internacionales | La Vanguardia
La feria Liber, que reúne anualmente a los profesionales del mundo del libro, cerró ayer las puertas de su 40.ª edición en el recinto ferial de l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, con una sensación de optimismo y de haber recuperado sus niveles prepandemia. Se ha doblado la presencia de compradores de otros países, que alcanzaron el 40% del total de 8.500 personas.Sale a subasta una de las ediciones más antiguas de 'Don Quijote' | La Vanguardia
Una de las ediciones más antiguas de Don Quijote de la Mancha saldrá a subasta el próximo 14 de diciembre en una casa de subastas en París. En la venta se esperan recaudar entre 400.000 y 600.000 euros.How Black Latinos found a future in an Alabama HBCU after slavery | USA Today
Lino was one of the dozens of Black Cubans and Puerto Ricans drawn to Jim Crow Alabama in the late 1890s through 1920s to attend what was then known as the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute under Washington, a formerly enslaved man who became one of the foremost Black leaders in the United States.Here are the origins of the oldest public library in the Americas | NBC News
The Mexican library owes its existence to one of Puebla's early Catholic bishops, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, who in 1646 donated his private library of 5,000 volumes to a local religious college.The stories of Latinos in Hollywood 'there from the beginning' are unearthed in a new book | NBC News
Luis I. Reyes' book “Viva Hollywood" unearths the fascinating Latino players behind Hollywood's storied history, behind the camera or on screen.RumorGuard: un nuevo sitio de comprobación de hechos para enseñar a la gente a detectar mejor la desinformación | Universo Abierto
RumorGuard, ofrece una ventanilla única para desmentir la desinformación y un indicio al proceso de comprobación de hechos, además de una biblioteca de herramientas autorizadas para ayudar a las personas a detectar, verificar y luchar contra la desinformación que se extiende rápidamente.Dictadura pretende apropiarse del archivo audiovisual e histórico de Nicaragua | La Prensa
El diputado oficialista Wálmaro Gutiérrez, miembro de la Comisión de Educación que dictaminó la reforma a la Ley de la Cinemateca Nacional, manifestó que la Cinemateca tendrá la función de “rescatar el archivo fílmico de la nació”, haciendo ver que hay producciones audiovisuales nacionales que están en manos privadas o académicas.With ‘Argentina, 1985,' Santiago Mitre aims at another scary swerve to the right | 48 Hills
'Cinema can collaborate with justice,' says the filmmaker, telling the story of a military junta's downfall with contemporary urgency.Precita Eyes Muralists celebrate 45 years of making art in SF and beyond | Mission Local
This year, the Precita Eyes Muralists Association, founded by Cervantes and her late husband, Luis Cervantes, celebrates 45 years of existence and hundreds of murals, with several dozen of those in the Mission. Others have been created as far away as China, Palestine and Russia.Una biblioteca recibe una espectacular donación de 18 000 exlibris | Julián Marquina
La Biblioteca Valenciana Nicolau Primitiu ha recibido una donación de 18 000 exlibris en papel y moldes de grabados de madera (xilografías) de Vicente Martínez Yuste. La donación ha sido realizada por la hija del coleccionista para que la biblioteca garantice su conservación, unidad y disponibilidad para el público y el personal investigador. Además, a la magnífica colección de exlibris también habría que sumar la donación de 55 matrices de impresión de exlibris, una caja con ocho buriles y un libro sobre el grabado holandés del siglo XVI.How the Denver Art Museum Kicked Columbus Out the Door | New York Times
The museum removed all references to the canceled hero from its collections and developed a new frame for exhibiting Latin American art.New Southern California Exhibitions Reveal Riches of Art and Tradition | New York Times
Several museums in Southern California are celebrating Latino and Chicano art and artists across various mediums.Prémio Camões 2022 atribuído a Silviano Santiago | CNN Portugal
"Silviano Santiago, além de escritor com uma obra literária com vários prémios nacionais e internacionais (Jabuti, Oceanos, etc.), é um pensador capaz de uma intervenção cívica e cultural de grande relev&ncia, com um contributo notável para a projeção da língua portuguesa como língua do pensamento crítico, no Brasil e fora dele (nos países ibero-americanos, africanos, nos Estados Unidos e na Europa)", indicou o júri da 34.ª edição do Prémio CamõesFeatured Archive: Cuban Diaspora Film Archive
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