By Graham Denyer Willis, author of Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil What does it mean to disappear, to vanish and never be seen again? …
Read More >Updated May 26, 2021 This week for #LASA2021, we’re proud to be celebrating the accomplishments of Jessica Graham, author of Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United …
Read More >By Kaira M. Cabañas, author of Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art This guest post is part of our #CAA2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn …
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Boston. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2019 The following excerpt is from Abstract Crossings: Cultural Exchange between Argentina and Brazil by …
Read More >By Erika Mary Robb Larkins, author of The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil On the morning of February 8th, 2019, a police operation in the Fallet and Fogueteiro favelas, located on …
Read More >This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Barcelona. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2018 by Alvaro Jarrín, author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital …
Read More >by Alvaro Jarrín, author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil This guest post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in Washington D.C.. Check back regularly for …
Read More >This post was originally published on March 6th, 2017 on the University of Arizona’s UANews, by Lori Harwood (UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences). Jennifer Roth-Gordon will speak about her book “Race …
Read More >Rio de Janeiro’s Paço Imperial is currently hosting an unusual retrospective of Japanese postwar art, ‘The Emergence of The Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art In Japan 1950-1970‘. Curator Pedro Erber is the author of Breaching the Frame: The …
Read More >As World Cup fervor gains intensity heading into the quarterfinals, we turn to the experts—namely Roger Kittleson, author of The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil—for some background …
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