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ICYMI: June 2023
- By: Taylor Leigh
- On: 07/05/2023 12:21:07
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In Case you Missed It for June, 2023...
'El caso Padilla', la prueba de la abominación de una dictadura | Público
El cineasta Pavel Giraud revela la filmación secreta, escondida por el gobierno cubano durante 50 años, de la declaración del poeta Heberto Padilla auto inculpándose de contrarrevolucionario. Presente en el Festival de San Sebastián y Premio Platino al mejor documental latinoamericano, es el sobrecogedor retrato de un suicidio moral público.Nicaraguan writer Gioconda Belli wins Reina Sofia poetry prize | ABC News
Nicaraguan poet and novelist Gioconda Belli, known for her feminist and erotic literature, has been awarded the Reina Sofia Ibero-American Poetry prize.Nature, Culture, and Faith in Seventeenth-Century Kongo and Angola | Center for the Study of Material & Visual Cultures of Religion
When Capuchin friars arrived in the region in 1645 as part of a newly formed mission, they did not find themselves in the distant, foreign land wholly opposite to theirs that they expected to find. They landed instead in a cosmopolitan environment that deeply challenged their preconceptions about Africa and Africans.Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida | The Conversation
This language variety came about through sustained contact between Spanish and English speakers, particularly when speakers translated directly from Spanish.Don't sort by relevance: Academic search results risk perpetuating cycle of underrepresentation | University of Cambridge
Many academics may be inadvertently conducting literature searches that prioritise the “greatest hits” of white, Western, male authors, despite being aware of the need to diversify their sources, a report suggests. The study, conducted by University of Cambridge researchers for the Society for Research into Higher Education, recommends that academics generally disable the ‘sort by relevance' feature on scholarly databases and calls for users to be made more aware of the associated risks.Collections: Latin American Ephemera: Digitized Microfilm Sets | Princeton University Library
The Latin American Ephemera Collection consists of thousands of pamphlets, brochures, flyers, posters and other printed items created mostly since around the last quarter of the 20th century by a wide array of social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, public policy think tanks, and other types of organizations across Latin America, in order to publicize their views, positions, agendas, policies, events, and activities. The vast majority are rare, hard-to-find primary sources unavailable elsewhere.The Venice Biennale Has Announced the Highly Anticipated Curatorial Theme of Its 2024 Art Exhibition | ArtNet
The title and theme, “Foreigners Everywhere,” was announced today, June 22, in Venice by Pedrosa. The artistic director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo hails from Brazil, and is not only the biennale's first Latin American curator, but, more remarkably, its first to come from the Southern Hemisphere. The mammoth art event in Italy is set to run from April 20 to November 24, 2024.Science Fiction From Latin America, With Zombie Dissidents and Aliens in the Amazon | NY Times
Across Latin America, shelves labeled “ciencia ficción,” or science fiction, have long been filled with translations of H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson and H.G. Wells. Now they might have to compete with a new wave of Latin American writers who are making the genre their own, rerooting it in their homelands and histories. Shrugging off rolling cornfields and New York skylines, they set their stories against the dense Amazon, craggy Andean mountainscapes and unmistakably Latin American urban sprawl.Latinos now outnumber non-Hispanic whites in Texas, census data shows | NBC News
Latinos make up around 40.2% of Texas's population, a sliver more than non-Hispanic whites, who make up 39.8% of the population.La BNE edita un mapa para geolocalizar relaciones de sucesos de los siglos XVI a XVIII | Biblioteca Nacional de España
Las relaciones incluidas en el mapa se han organizado en siete áreas temáticas de manera que el usuario puede seleccionar si quiere verlas todas o solo algunas materias de su interés. Además, cada área está a su vez dividida en categorías más específicas. Sin embargo, hay que tener en cuenta que a menudo las relaciones mezclaban varios temas: por ejemplo, se narraba un milagro ocurrido durante un terremoto o la aparición de un ser monstruoso en mitad de una batalla. Las áreas temáticas son las siguientes:Libros y ciencia, cine, creación, democracia, imaginación y libertad, en la 82ª Feria del Libro de Madrid | WMagazín
La Feria madrileña cierra, tras 17 días, con 367 casetas de expositores, firmas de más de un millar de autores, 400 actividades y el lema De ciencias y de letras. WMagazín, con la colaboración de Liber, presenta un panorama a través de ideas y frases de los escritores en la Feria.Borges: a 37 años de su muerte, la declaratoria de herederos es “inminente” | La Nación
Minetras se define el legado del escritor y su viuda, María Kodama, que murió el 26 de marzo, organizan jornadas y festivales para celebrarlo en agosto.Las cartas privadas del Boom Latinoamericano: qué se escribían Gabo, Cortázar, Fuentes y Vargas Llosa | Clarín
El epistolario entre estos cuatro grandes escritores revela miedos, proyectos y pasiones. Se trata de un total de 207 misivas desde 1955 hasta 2012, varias de ellas inéditas.¿Qué tiene que tener la mejor librería de la Argentina para ganar el premio? | La Nación
El concurso que organiza la FED recibe postulaciones de todo el país, donde se estima que hay más de mil librerías; solo en la ciudad de Buenos Aires existe una cada cinco mil habitantes.Bookseller Javier García: ‘In Texas, Spanish is an aspirational language' | El País
Two friends have turned their Dallas bookstore into one of the most important cultural centers in the southern United States, with Latin American arts as the driving force.Hispana, un portal donde explorar más de 10 millones de objetos digitales del patrimonio cultural español | Julián Marquina
Hispana es el portal en línea que proporciona acceso al patrimonio cultural español digitalizado. Con más de 10 millones de objetos digitales, esta plataforma te invita a explorar y descubrir la rica historia y cultura de España desde tu navegador. En su amplia colección digital se encuentra una gran cantidad de tesoros, desde manuscritos y libros hasta fotografías y mapas. Todos ellos con un gran valor patrimonial e histórico.POLILLA, EL FARO DE LA LITERATURA LATINOAMERICANA EN MÉXICO | Purgante
Cecilia Castro y Daniel F. Álvarez fundaron la librería independiente Polilla durante la pandemia, en la coyuntura de una residencia artística en el barrio de Popotla. Hoy, a varios meses de distancia y ya plenamente establecidos en un espacio propio dentro de la colonia Roma, no solo han consolidado la librería como el gran faro de la literatura latinoamericana en México, sino que lanzaron un sello editorial que busca democratizar la lectura de otras latitudes y promover intercambios culturales entre México y mercados tradicionalmente inexplorados.Diego Rivera Mural at San Francisco Art Institute Could Still Be Sold | ArtNews
At 74 feet wide, the Rivera mural is considered an important one, even for an artist who produced many sizable works in the medium. Commissioned by SFAI itself, the painting depicts workers producing a fresco in the very space where the Rivera work is set. ABC News has reported that it could be worth $50 million.Categories
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