La historiadora Dra. Lina Britto habla de su libro nuevo que se llama Marijuana Boom The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise con Carmen Soliz. Que disfruten. Historias Podcast · Historias 145 – El boom marihuanero en Colombia con Lina Britto Intro: Diomedes Díaz – Lluvia De Verano Read more…
The Alfred B. Thomas Award is awarded annually for the best book on a Latin American subject published by a SECOLAS member in the previous year. Co-authored works may be considered, but not anthologies or edited works. Books may be in any language. Authors must have been members of SECOLAS Read more…
Come join us in Charlotte! In conjunction with the North Carolina Conference on Latin American Studies (NC/CLAS), the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) is pleased to announce a call for paper and panel abstract submissions for SECOLAS’s 69th Annual Meeting, to be held from Wednesday, 9 March thru Read more…
Dr. Sarah Osten and Dr. Jurgen Buchenau joined Steven to discuss the first three years of Mexico’s Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s presidency and the recent midterm elections.
Congratulations to former SECOLAS president Stephen Morris on the publication of his new book The Corruption Debates: Left vs. Right—and Does It Matter—in the Americas
Dr. Joshua Frens-String discusses with Dustin his new book Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile.
Dr. Mauro Caraccioli of Virginia Tech joined Steven to discuss his book entitled Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire, which examines the interplay of faith, nature, and empire in Colonial Spanish America and the natural histories produced by early modern Spanish missionaries Read more…
Dr. Michele McArdle Stephens joined Steven to discuss her book *In the Lands of Fire and Sun: Resistance and Accommodation in the Huichol Sierra, 1723–1930*. Link to her book: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803288584/ Link to Intro / Outro: Huichol Musical – youtu.be/ABL1xc_oEtE
Volume 65, Issue 2 is hot off the presses! Check it out: Issue hyperlink: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44820 Published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Articles: Greg Weeks, Note from the Outgoing Editor João Batista Nascimento Gregoire, The Poor Need Money – Rethinking Poverty in Brazil’s Post-Military Dictatorship Silvia Borzutzky Read more…