The 2025 Mary Ann Faulkner Distinguished Lecture in Latin American Public Affairs and Politics Dr. Ricaurte Vásquez Morales, Administrator, Panama Canal Authority You are all invited liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event... Parking available -Manor Garage parking.utexas.edu/parking/gara...

Reframing U.S.–Latin America Relations Dive into a conversation on how diplomacy is evolving—beyond embassies and treaties—to include diaspora voices, regional actors, and business leadership. See map: bit.ly/3jOxdRz Free and Open to the Public liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...

Prof. @raullorcamadrid.bsky.social presents his book The Birth Of Democracy in South America (9/22) DETAILS: liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event... Available now #OpenAccess — download your copy today! www.cambridge.org/core/books/b... @universitypress.cambridge.org

Don’t miss this chance to hear directly from, award-winning Mexican author Yuri Herrera. Sept. 19 | 2:00pm | SRH 1.208 2300 Red River St. See details here liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...

Join us for a thought-provoking conference on the Evolution of Violence in Latin America (Sept 8-9, 2025) Keynote Address by Stathis Kalyvas Share this invitation with students and colleagues sites.utexas.edu/lozanolongco... Map: tinyurl.com/3bcp27dk

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I’m thrilled to announce that, after ten years of research, my book on the birth of democracy in South America is finally out! I'm especially excited to be publishing it #openaccess, which means you can download a PDF for free at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

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Thanks to those who joined us in our LLILAS /Stanford CLAS reception in San Francisco #LASA2025

We are proud to have raised the highest dollar amount & attracted the highest number of donors among all COLA units during 40X40. We know that these are challenging times for fundraising, & we truly appreciate your support. Latin American Studies matter, and your support helps us demonstrate that.

#40x40 LLILAS & the Mexico Center are raising funds to support a new initiative: The Rosario Castellanos Seminar. Learn here how it will impact students, faculty and transnational collaboration. Give now! (Campaign ends in May 8) Any contribution is welcome! www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...

#40x40 LLILAS & the Mexico Center are raising funds to support a new initiative: The Rosario Castellanos Seminar. Learn here how it will impact students, faculty and transnational collaboration. Give now! (Campaign ends in May 8) Any contribution is welcome! www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...

Thanks to our amazing panelist! Thanks to @utllilas.bsky.social & UT Government Dept.

1 Support the Mexico Center during the UT 40X40 Campaign: THE ROSARIO CASTELLANOS SEMINAR Named for one of Mexico’s most important writers, diplomats, and public intellectuals, this program will bring students and faculty into conversation with prominent Mexican academics, artists, & public figures

I went to UT Austin for grad school because I was interested in Native American poetics and rhetoric, this book by Joel Sherzer and Tony Woodbury was a big influence, taking the speech play and verbal art class with them was a highlight of grad school, getting to teach it now is a real delight

Join us at 2:30 to learn more. Thanks to the Argentine Studies Program & @utllilas.bsky.social for sponsoring this event!

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Our affiliate Iván Chaar López presents his book "The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion" April 9 | 4pm (Reception and roundtable) Map: bit.ly/3jOxdRz Invite students and colleagues. liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...

The 2025 Lozano Long Conference, "Urban Entanglements: Centering Marginalized Lives and Ecologies in Latin America," is a three-day interdisciplinary conference aimed at expanding our understanding of the urban experience in Latin America sites.utexas.edu/lozanolongco...

The LLILAS Mexico Center presents a screening of Somos pequeñas, a short film directed by Fernanda Galindo. The screening will be preceded by a director's talk and followed by a Q&A with Galindo. liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...

#GAELGARCIABERNAL today at UT Austin. No registration needed! Arrive early to secure a seat. www.facebook.com/events/80104...

Brazil Center Keynote: Why Don’t Autocrats Always Succeed in Weakening Democracy? Brazil in Comparative Perspective Carlos Pereira, Fundação Getulio Vargas. Lite lunch included! Read details liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event... See map: bit.ly/3jOxdRz

Dear all: We will have time for a short Q&A with our distinguished speaker. We will collect a few questions from the audience and we want to invite you to submit yours. Please post your question below: liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...

Check out what an exciting month we have ahead of us! So many news stories you need to read and events you don’t want to miss. Read our E-Newsletter for March 1-15, 2025 us5.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=c7d2...

Check out what an exciting month we have ahead of us! So many news stories you need to read and events you don’t want to miss. Read our E-Newsletter for March 1-15, 2025 us5.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=c7d2...

Brazil Center Keynote: Why Don’t Autocrats Always Succeed in Weakening Democracy? Brazil in Comparative Perspective Carlos Pereira, Fundação Getulio Vargas. Lite lunch included! Read details liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event... See map: bit.ly/3jOxdRz

LLILAS is proud to support the research of our affiliated faculty. Congratulations to the winners of Mellon Faculty Research Grants! www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

Save the date! The 2025 Lozano Long Conference "Urban Entanglements: Centering Marginalized Lives and Ecologies in Latin America" March 26: School of Architecture March 27–28: Eastwoods Room (UNB 2.102), Texas Union Building Free and open to the public. sites.utexas.edu/lozanolongco...

Alumni Spotlight Kristen Petros de Guex served as a Grants Manager for Tetra Tech, a USAID-sponsored global provider of consulting services. She has dedicated most of her professional career to public service. Thinking of our LLILAS alumni who were working in #USAID projects. shorturl.at/EdvZA

Discussion with Eduardo Saron (Itau Foundation) Free and open to the public #Economy #AI #Technology #Brazil #SXSW See map bit.ly/3jOxdRz liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...

The LLILAS Brazil Center presents a lecture by Naziano Filizola, Federal University of Amazonas. #Brazil #Amazon #water Learn more: liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...

Full house! FORO URGENTE about the #PanamaCanal.

For those in Austin, take note: this promises to be a timely and efficient dose of background on Panama. Tomorrow at 5PM at LLILAS!

Discussion with Eduardo Saron (Itau Foundation) Free and open to the public #Economy #AI #Technology #Brazil #SXSW See map bit.ly/3jOxdRz liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...

Foro Urgente about the #PanamaCanal at UT Austin 500 Years in the Making: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Panama Canal Marixa Lasso, Tinker Visiting Professor Jonathan Brown Moderator: Zach Elkins Learn more here: shorturl.at/f8per See map bit.ly/3jOxdRz @uthistory.bsky.social

Yes, you read that right!!! LLILAS and the Mexico Center are hosting #GaelGarciaBernal Cine y poder: diálogos del territorio March 12 |5pm | UT Austin In Spanish with simultaneous interpretation. Free and open to the public. REGISTER: tinyurl.com/wt4fbeyc Learn more: tinyurl.com/4as7vy6w

Foro Urgente about the #PanamaCanal at UT Austin 500 Years in the Making: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Panama Canal Marixa Lasso, Tinker Visiting Professor Jonathan Brown Moderator: Zach Elkins Learn more here: shorturl.at/f8per See map bit.ly/3jOxdRz @uthistory.bsky.social

Imagine the excitement of finding a “magic box” full of your grandmother’s extensive writings that speak of her childhood and youth she experienced 100 years ago. Join us un this fascinating discussion with Dr. Cristina Devereaux Ramírez (Univ. of Arizona) liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...

LLILAS Alumni Spotlight Meet Maria Sacchetti Maria is a WP reporter covering immigrant communities and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She received the 2015 French-American Foundation's Immigration Journalism Award for her article "The Unforgotten" Follow her! @mariasacchetti.bsky.social

LLILAS is pleased to welcome Marixa Lasso as the spring 2025 Tinker Visiting Professor She is the author of the books Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution (Pittsburgh, 2007) and Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/news/...

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Felipe Fanue Rodrigues (UERJ) will celebrate the intellectual legacy of Afro-Braziilan theorist and feminist/human rights leader Lélia Gonzalez. Join us! “Retranslating Lélia Gonzalez as a Theorist of the Global South” Jan. 14 | 12pm | SRH 1.313 Lunch served liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...

#AHA2025 has been a blast. I'm grateful to wonderful colleagues for their support of my work. And I finally got the obligatory picture of myself holding my book at the @uncpress.bsky.social book table. (And it was already sold!) Thank you to all who have purchased and read it!!

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Institutional Backlash in Mexico and Its Implications for U.S.–Mexico Relations. Dec. 6 \ Noon \ SRH 1.313 Join us for a talk by Jaime Olaiz-González, LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor, Universidad Panamericana Law School, CDMX liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...

LLILAS-Supported Studio Forges New Connections Between UT School of Architecture and Latin America soa.utexas.edu/news/llilas-...

The UT Mellon Fellowship for High Impact Scholars hosts academics, artists and journalists from Latin America for one-year fellowships at UT Austin. Yesterday, LLILAS welcomed Cuban filmmaker, Lester Hamlet. liberalarts.utexas.edu/lri/mellon-h...

The Brazil Center of LLILAS presents Law Enforcement and Electoral Politics in Brazil Isabel Laterzo-Tingley SRH 1.313 Hackett Room, LLILAS Free and open to the public | Lunch will be served liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...

Cuban filmmaker Lester Hamlet & Chilean composer and academic Juan Pablo Abalo discuss the themes of democracy, freedom of expression, and human rights in the recent decades of Cuban and Chilean cinema. This event is in Spanish w/out interpretation. liberalarts.utexas.edu/llilas/event...