I wrote about transnational feminist networks, community museums, digital storytelling,collective care, and other things in Postconflict Utopias: Everyday Survival in Chocó, Colombia. Use FRIDAY50 for 50% off. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

“la memoria no es solo una mirada hacia el pasado, sino una forma de construir un país distinto”. www.swissinfo.ch/spa/la-cultu...

This is one of the first things I point to when people ask me about Franco's Spain. 6,000 mass graves in a country under 200,000 square miles (for reference: Texas is 260,000 square miles)

Out now: JLACS 34.3 including a dossier edited by @azucastro.bsky.social and Estefania Bournot on "Geological Groundings in Latin American Cultures". Check out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjla20/c...

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

“Welp, there goes my solitude.”

“if you get an essay that is banal, bloated, &meandering—much less one with an absent student interpreter and ill-connected ideas that are judgmental,racist, plagiarized, &/or factually wrong-simply stop grading, send the student this article, &ask them to rewrite.” www.chronicle.com/article/10-w...

Culture might seem a less consequential right than free assembly+ its infringement makes less spectacular news than repressive violence. But the repeal of the right to culture is grave. honored to be with @isanchezprado.bsky.social in @hyperallergic.com today! hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

Excelente ensayo de Lorena Amaro: “La crítica literaria, como forma específica de trabajo intelectual, podría ayudar a reconstruir lo que la banalidad ha derrumbado.” cuadernoshispanoamericanos.com/barricadas-c...

It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

Muy satisfecho de haber participado en esta empresa, mitad novela de misterio, mitad viaje a la semilla. Pero sobre todo muy contento de que nuestro grano de arena ayudara a que esta colección se encuentre ya al alcance de todo el mundo. www.elespectador.com/el-magazin-c...

Academia.edu has always been a scam to gamify & monetize the psychic damage of twilight-phase academic neoliberalism: this person looked you up, that person mentioned you, your work matters. Intellectual as individual brand-builder. The rights stuff is awful but the basic concept is bad enough

Amador Fernández Savater entrevista a Diego Sztulwark www.elsaltodiario.com/argentina/di...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

El juez Moraes pide condenar a Bolsonaro por golpe de Estado y cuatro delitos más - elpais.com/america/2025...

Lisa Siraganian, "Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity" www.aaup.org/seven-theses...

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

“es una de las más sólidas y contundentes de la literatura colombiana contemporánea y un tesoro hasta ahora escondido de las letras hispanoamericanas”.

Nuevo shelfie con gata.

Para celebrar el legado de Eddie Palmieri. youtu.be/UbufErwbAaw?... #RIP

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Eso, siga poniendo demandas a ver si se le vuelve a regresar, y por fin lo investigan por lo que corresponde: paramilitarismo.

La justicia no se arrodilla ante el poder.

Born 100 years ago today, Frantz Fanon remains a towering figure of decolonial thought and resistance. Rest in power. www.dw.com/en/frantz-fa...

If you’re attending the virtual version of this year’s @asle-us.bsky.social conference, we look forward to seeing you at our table on Thursday at 3:30 EDT.

Para los que vayan al Congreso IILI en Lima. Sábado 19 de julio de 9am-11am.

El capítulo cinco del libro está casi listo. Sólo me queda escribir las conclusiones y revisar los capítulos anteriores.

This is the closest I could get to a balanced list.

SILENT WITNESSES / MUDOS TESTIGOS, Luis Ospina and Jerónimo Atehortúa’s imaginative journey through Colombian history using only surviving silent film footage, screens this Wednesday, June 25 at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social www.cinematropical.com/new-events/l...

As an American second-language-teaching professor in Ohio, where they have demoted languages from legitimate fields of study to "skills," I am offended by this use of the term "bilingual." It's like the fox rebranding itself as a hen.

I am editing a new volume that explores how Latin American writers, artists, and filmmakers engage with imaginaries of the skies! Please share CfP broadly. #LatinAmericanStudies #CFP #Sky #FilmStudies #ArtHistory #Literature #SpaceAndCulture oaperez.com/sky-imaginar...

‘Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production’ is now available for pre-order! This book has been years in the making and includes works by a wonderful and talented group of scholars. #AnimalStudies #PlantStudies #EnvHum #LatinAmericanStudies upf.com/book.asp?id=...

Chile and Colombia win big at #Cannes! Diego Céspedes' THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO takes the Un Certain Regard Award, while Simón Mesa Soto's A POET wins the Jury Prize

Fue un placer participar en esta conversación a cuatro bandas sobre la película “Morichales” (2024) con su director, Chris Gude, Salima Cure, Carolina Sánchez y Santiago Alarcón www.humanidadesambientales.com/cafe/33-mori...

humanities major hiring on the rise against the hallucination plagiarism arson machine www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

I'm transforming, I'm vibrating, I'm glowing I'm flying, look at me now!

Final grades officially submitted—a nice end for a tough semester.

Una vez más, Murakami no fue nombrado papa, para gran decepción de sus lectores.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

El miércoles 14 de mayo, en el marco del XI Ciclo de conferencias Visitas al patio, los editores y autores del dossier "Estéticas más que humanas, de la violencia y la memoria en Colombia" conversaremos sobre nuestros trabajos. Los esperamos a las 10:00 am. (h. de Colombia).

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds en vivo, Parte de la Religión

Disfrutando estos nuevos diálogos esta semana para incorporar en mi libro.

Palme d'Or-winning Colombian filmmaker Simón Mesa Soto returns to Cannes for a fourth time with his second feature, A POET, selected for the Un Certain Regard competition

Carta del Papa Francisco sobre el papel de la literatura en la formación (2024) - RIP www.vatican.va/content/fran...

#PopeFrancis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J.). 17 December 1936, Buenos Aires, Argentina · 21 April 2025 (88 years), Domus Sanctae Marthae, Vatican City. “Don't forget the poor!”

The passing of Vargas Llosa serves as a reminder that it is possible to appreciate exceptional literature even when the author holds detestable political views. This situation may create a shared experience among his readers as we consider his legacy and its implications.

Latin American-African Studies: Past, Present, Futures. A collection of essays on the intersections of Latin American and African studies. Edited by Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra & Sarah Quesada. www.globalsouthstudies.org/conversation...