Sarli E. Mercado & Lori DiPrete Brown The 4W Women in Translation circle (4W WIT) is an engaged research effort that explores the meaning and practice of collective translation, It is inspired by experiences of collaboration related to literature and the arts, gender and wellbeing, and also community, urban sustainability and the environment, in particular, …
Ksenija Bilbija Some twenty years ago, in 2003, a student in one of my undergraduate classes brought to my attention a strange 14-page long book that looked like something his grade school sister could have made at home (hand painted cover included!) and asked me if he could write a final class paper about it. …
Tabitha Faber One of the hallmarks of colonialism, and of Western hegemony embedded within colonialism, is the impulse to essentialize in order to assimilate. Ideas, technologies, and lifeways from other cultures are broken down to their smallest parts to more easily integrate them into one totalizing Western framework. One framework, though, cannot hold the vast …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Carolyn Kellenborn Intercambios: Art, Stories, & Comunidad presented collaborative works from artists in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico. The work on textiles, photography, printmaking, papermaking, music, and video visually explores intersections of cultures and media. As the eleven artists in the exhibition, we come from diverse backgrounds. We are from …