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I am pleased to return to the work of Aaron Coy Moulton. If you missed his first post on archives in Cuba, please follow this link. If you would like to make your own contribution(s) on archival, library, or digital resources on Latin America, the Caribbean, and the US-Mexico borderlands, I’d love to hear from you. I’m looking for drafts that I can publish over the summer. Please email me at gkpierce@ship.edu or fill out this Google Form.

Aaron Coy Moulton is an Associate Professor in Latin American History at Stephen F. Austin State University. Multiple institutions have supported his

BLOG: How We Remember: An Archive of Indigenous Voices by Claire Lavarreda

Gretchen Pierce (She/her/hers) Blog Post
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Claire Lavarreda is a World History Ph.D. student at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Her main interests include the Indigenous Americas, Material Texts, and Public/Digital History. She has received several fellowships and awards, including the Gillis Family World History Research Award and a NULab Community Collaboration Grant. She is currently working as a Digital Integration Teaching Initiative Research Fellow, and her work with platforms like Omeka, StoryMap, WordPress, and others has informed her project “How We Remember.”

Neter@s: do you have similar digital project you

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I’m pleased to continue our discussion of research on Cuba, this time on repositories located in Cuba. Have you done research there (or anywhere else in Latin America) that you would like to tell our readers about? Do you work at a library or archive or have you created a digital collection that focuses on Latin America? This is a great space to alert researchers about your resources. If you’re interested, please contact Gretchen Pierce at gkpierce@ship.edu or fill out this Google Form. I’m always on the lookout for new guest bloggers.

Aaron Coy Moulton is an Associate Professor in Latin

Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age

by Nathan R. Johnson (Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2020 - $49.95 [Hardcover], ISBN: 978-0817320607, [available in ebook], 224 pp., list of figures, acknowledgements, introduction, 6 chapters, notes, references, index, 6 B/W illustrations).

Nathan Johnson’s pursuit of foregrounding Rhetoric within memory’s infrastructure, across the spatiotemporal evolution of technology and techniques (christened as mnemonic techne), paved way for the reconstruction of memory’s originating myths and a retelling of

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Happy New Year, Neter@s! If you have not had a chance to read Research Corner’s annual review for 2023, please do so. As always, I’d love to hear from you if you’d like to contribute. Email Gretchen Pierce at gkpierce@ship.edu or fill out this Google Form.

Oscar J. Montero is an independent researcher, translator, and writer from Cuba, now living in New York City. Montero is professor emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He has been a visiting professor at Emory, SUNY Stony Brook, Princeton, and Columbia universities. He is the author of The Name Game on Cuban writer

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Gretchen Pierce is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-editor of Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History (University of Arizona Press, 2014) with Áurea Toxqui, and has published a number of articles, book chapters, and academic blog posts on temperance, beer, and advertising in Mexico. In addition to serving as an editor on H-LatAm and founding this blog, she is currently working on a book, an article, and a chapter from an edited volume, all of which deal with alcohol in one way or another.

Year Four: H

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H-Latamist@s! I would love to edit blog posts over the winter break so that I have new ones to publish in 2024. Please contact me if you're interested in contributing for the good of the community at gkpierce@ship.edu or this Google Form.

Gretchen Pierce is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-editor of Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History (University of Arizona Press, 2014) with Áurea Toxqui, and has published a number of articles, book chapters, and academic blog posts on temperance, beer, and

Announcement Type
Conference
Location
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Subject Fields
Film and Film History

Call for Papers: History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception 2024

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 10th-12th July 2024

Pre-conference session - 9th July 2024

Keynote Speaker: to be confirmed

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Programa de Pós-graduação em Cinema e Audiovisual da Universidade Federal Fluminense (PPGCine-UFF)

 

20 years of HoMER: What has been done and where is it going?

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Neter@s: if you’re enjoying Research Corner, I invite you to help me keep it going. I’m getting dangerously low in my completed pile of drafts. Please contact me at gkpierce@ship.edu or by filling out this Google Form if you’d like to contribute for the good of the community. I accept blog posts about libraries, archives, museums, or websites with collections on Latin America. I also welcome posts that are more topical, like: how to write a second book on Latin American history or how to do transnational research. In fact, today’s post is related to another I wrote about how to do Latin

Dostoevsky and the Idea of Russianness: The case for a decolonial critique

Sarah Hudspith, University of Leeds

 

This blog post has been developed out of a keynote lecture I gave at a Dostoevsky workshop at the University of Bristol in October 2022.[1]

In the year and a half since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we have seen intense debate about the relationship between Russian culture and the imperialist politics of the Russian state, and correspondingly about how the academic field of Russian studies should respond. In April 2022, the Ukrainian author Oksana Zabuzhko drew a