Episodi

  • Aarti Smith Madan on Argentinian intellectuals and Afro-Brazilian street art

    Aarti Smith Madan on Argentinian intellectuals and Afro-Brazilian street art
    Apr 24 2024
    Aarti Smith Madan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), a scholar of Latin American literature and spatial humanities, maps the trajectory of her interests in nineteenth-century Argentine nation-builders, gauchos as literary subjects, and histories of South-South interactions through connections between Argentina and India. She also outlines her research on the manifestations of Afro-Brazilian consciousness in street art, artistic identity, and social media.
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    1 ora e 3 min
  • Carmen Jarrín on the joys and hazards of trans art and activism in Brazil

    Carmen Jarrín on the joys and hazards of trans art and activism in Brazil
    Apr 24 2024
    Carmen Jarrín (College of the Holy Cross) engages in a conversation about ethnographic research on trans and travesti creators and activists in Brazil’s artivismo movement as they contend with violence and right-wing nationalism. Carmen connects this work to earlier investigations of plastic surgery, biopolitics, and relationships between gender, beauty, and national identity in Brazil.
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    1 ora e 7 min
  • Carlos Odria on improvisation and notions of fluidity that influence his music

    Carlos Odria on improvisation and notions of fluidity that influence his music
    Apr 24 2024
    Musician and scholar Carlos Odria (Worcester State University) talks about heavy metal, Brazilian jazz, Daoism, the picado technique, migration from Peru, and other influences on his improvisational, hybridized, and fluid guitar-playing style. He also reviews the ethnomusicology research he conducted on urban tambores groups that transformed his perceptions of cultural production in metropolitan Lima.
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    1 ora e 5 min
  • Koichi Hagimoto on Transpacific modernity and ethnic Japanese writers in Latin America

    Koichi Hagimoto on Transpacific modernity and ethnic Japanese writers in Latin America
    Apr 24 2024
    Koichi Hagimoto (Wellesley College), a literary scholar of Transpacific studies and comparative anti-colonial resistance movements, discusses his conception of Transpacific modernity. He also outlines his recent work on cultural and political relationships between Japan and Argentina, and his considerations of the literature and racial identities of people of Japanese descent in Latin America.
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    57 min
  • Hosts John Galante and Joe Aguilar introduce Crossing Fronteras, a podcast series that surveys the unique ecosystem of contemporary scholarship and art being generated by scholars and creatives in New England who are working in Latin American and Caribbea

    Hosts John Galante and Joe Aguilar introduce Crossing Fronteras, a podcast series that surveys the unique ecosystem of contemporary scholarship and art being generated by scholars and creatives in New England who are working in Latin American and Caribbea
    Apr 24 2024
    Hosts John Galante and Joe Aguilar introduce Crossing Fronteras, a podcast series that surveys the unique ecosystem of contemporary scholarship and art being generated by scholars and creatives in New England who are working in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
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    2 min