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Jewish Studies January 5, 2022

Revolutionary Visions

Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Stephanie M. Pridgeon's book Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film (U Toronto Press, 2020) examines recent cinematic depictions of Jewish involvement in 1960s and 1970s revolutionary movements …

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Latin American Studies January 4, 2022

Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America

From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk

Mabel Moraña

Hosted by Daniela Gutierrez Flores
Mabel Moraña's book Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk (Cambria Press, 2020) explores the complex relationships between the fields of philosophy and criticism, focusing on methodological, ideological …
Literary Studies January 4, 2022

Strategic Occidentalism

On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature

Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado

Hosted by Bryant Scott
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His areas of research include Latin American intellectual …
Latin American Studies December 29, 2021

Stories That Make History

Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas

Lynn Stephen

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
Elena Poniatowska is a legendary Mexican journalist who has chronicled popular celebrities, politicians as well as important social movements in Mexico since the 1968 Tlatelolco students massacre. Today I talked …
Literary Studies December 27, 2021

World Literature Decentered

Beyond the 'West' Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal

Ian Almond

Hosted by Bryant Scott
Ian Almond is Professor of World Literature at Georgetown University in Qatar, and author of six books, including Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe’s Battlegrounds …
Popular Culture January 18, 2022

Punk! Las Américas Edition

Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa, Rodrigo Quijano, and Shane Greene

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In PUNK! Las Americas Editions (Intellect Books, 2021), editors Olga Rodrguez-Ulloa, Rodrigo Quijano, and Shane Greene have compiled a collection of academic essays and punk paraphernalia (including interviews, zines, poetry, and visual segments) …
Latino Studies January 4, 2022

Reverberations of Racial Violence

Critical Reflections on the History of the Border

Sonia Hernández and John Morán González

Hosted by Tiffany Gonzalez
In the wake of protests and marches for racial and gender justice in the twenty-first century, scholars have located and argued that racial violence has been embedded in the very …
Latin American Studies December 15, 2021

Moral Majorities Across the Americas

Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right

Benjamin A. Cowan

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national or religious boundaries. In Moral Majorities Across the Americas, Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious …
Latin American Studies December 15, 2021

Land Without Masters

Agrarian Reform and Political Change Under Peru's Military Government

Anna Cant

Hosted by Kenneth Sanchez
In this episode of the New Books in Latin America Podcast, Kenneth Sánchez spoke with Dr Anna Cant about her very interesting book Land without Masters: Agrarian Reform and Political …
Latin American Studies December 3, 2021

Ascent to Glory

How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic

Álvaro Santana-Acuña

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a revered classic today fifty five years after it was first published in 1967. Today I talked to Alvaro Santana Acuña a sociologist and …
Novel Dialogue December 2, 2021

Dreaming or Thinking

Cristina Rivera Garza with Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas

Cristina Rivera Garza, Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas

Hosted by Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz
ND stages a trialogue this week with MacArthur "Genius" Cristina Rivera Garza and Notre Dame critics Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas. Professor Rivera Garza recalls roadtripping through Mexico in a …
Latin American Studies November 30, 2021

Lula and His Politics of Cunning

From Metalworker to President of Brazil

John D. French

Hosted by Candela Marini
Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing São Paulo. He learned to read at …
Latin American Studies November 24, 2021

The Dark Side of Memory

Uruguay's Disappeared Children and the Families Who Never Stopped Searching

Tessa Bridal

Hosted by Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente
I sat down with award winning author Tessa Bridal to talk about her latest book, The Dark Side of Memory: Uruguay's Disappeared Children and the Families Who Never Stopped Searching, published by Invisible Ink (October …
General History November 23, 2021

Confederates and Comancheros

Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands

James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely

Hosted by Mark Klobas
A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings--never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle …
African American Studies November 22, 2021

Imagining the Mulatta

Blackness in U. S. and Brazilian Media

Jasmine Mitchell

Hosted by Mickell Carter
Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural …
Caribbean Studies November 19, 2021

Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean

Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970

Nicole C. Bourbonnais

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized …
Food November 18, 2021

Avocado

A Global History

Jeff Miller

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
The avocado is the iconic food of the twenty-first century. It has gone from a little-known regional food to a social media darling in less than a hundred years. This …
Latin American Studies November 12, 2021

Vendors' Capitalism

A Political Economy of Public Markets in Mexico City

Ingrid Bleynat

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Mexico City's public markets were integral to the country's economic development, bolstering the expansion of capitalism from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. These publicly owned and operated markets supplied households …
Environmental Studies November 12, 2021

Every Day the River Changes

Four Weeks Down the Magdalena

Jordan Salama

Hosted by Kathryn (Kate) Carpenter
Jordan Salama’s Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena (Catapult Press, 2021) is a travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring …
Latino Studies November 10, 2021

Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas

Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect

Michelle Téllez

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
Near Tijuana, Baja California, the autonomous community of Maclovio Rojas demonstrates what is possible for urban place-based political movements. More than a community, Maclovio Rojas is a women-led social movement …