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Agrarian Studies Colloquium - Madre de las aguas: The Life and Death of Glaciers in Bolivia’s Cordillera Real

Sarah Hines is an assistant professor of history at the University of Oklahoma where her research and teaching focus on Latin America and the Caribbean with an emphasis on histories of the environment, infrastructure, race and ethnicity, and social movements. Her current book project, “Water for All: Revolution, Property, and Community in Twentieth-Century Bolivia,” is a social, political, and environmental history of water access and hydraulic engineering in Bolivia from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first.

Peru, A Diverse Country: A Perspective from the Amazon Region

Peru is gifted with natural diversity, micro-climates can coincide within meters of each other. From the coast, through the Anden region, extending to the origin of the Amazon rainforest it offers the perfect home to a cornucopia of natural, cultural, artistic, and gastronomic wealth. For this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month, we invite you to discover Peru, standing from the Amazonian perspective.

BRAZIL 100/200: Reflections on the Legacies of the Week of Modern At & the Bicentennial of Independence

Brazil at 100 / 200 will explore how memory and culture shape the meaning of independence today. By integrating a reflection on the twin centenaries of independence and the São Paulo Modern Art Week, this conference will reflect on the meaning of independence in the light of ideas about Brazilian identity that inspired the modernists one hundred years ago and continue to provoke us today.
This will be a hybrid conference via Zoom as well as with in-person components at Yale University and at the Braudel Institute in São Paulo.

¡Cuba Vive! Nachito Herrera & His Havana Jazz Club

Ignacio “Nachito” Herrera first wowed audiences at the age of 12 when he performed Rachmaninoff’s “Concerto No. 2” with the Havana Symphony Orchestra. Since then, he has become one of the leading voices of Cuba’s jazz scene. Herrera tours internationally with his band and collaborates with musical groups around the world. He is “explosive, crowd-pleasing. rhythmically intense. Romantic. Dynamic. Jaw-droppingly good.” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

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