Jill Pflugheber & Steven F. White We hope that the Microcosms website, entirely available in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, can be a valuable resource for Latin American Studies programs in that it cuts across traditional disciplines in innovative ways and encourages dialogue between the humanities and the sciences in general, including Anthropology, Art History, …
Patrick Iber In the last decade or so, people around the world have been having a global debate about income and wealth inequality. Seventy years ago, there was a similar conversation that was focused on poverty. The issues of poverty and inequality are obviously related but not identical. (The economist Branko Milanovic tells a story …
Glen Close My current book project is a study of documentary films from Latin America and elsewhere that contain representations of commercial animal slaughter. I propose to read these films in the historical context of the modern industrialization and concealment of livestock farming and meat processing. Over the last two centuries, slaughter and meat processing …
Claudia Irene Calderón, Margaret Baker, Otilio Marcelino Bravo Roblero, Gaby Nathaly Castillo Valle, Carlos Humberto Ramírez Santiago Motivados por un afán de trabajar de forma recíproca con nuestros colaboradores en Guatemala decidimos organizar un intercambio de Campesino-a-Campesino (iCaC) coordinado y financiado por varios fondos de la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison y en colaboración con miembros de …
Alberto M. Vargas Many top research universities in the US and elsewhere are becoming leaders in cutting-edge research on psychedelics. The University of Wisconsin–Madison recently launched the Transdisciplinary Center for Research in Psychoactive Substances (TCRPS), aiming to coordinate ongoing research and education in psychedelic compounds, and to promote outreach in this rapidly expanding field. This …
Anika M. Rice The global spread of Covid-19 in early 2020 led to travel and market restrictions that impacted food systems across Latin America (FAO & ECLAC; Tittonell et al.). Guatemala’s nation-wide curfew and myriad restrictions on movement created a distinct economic shock, shaping this pandemic era, or ‘tiempos de pandemia.’ In a study on …