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Chiapas Connections

March 8, 2011 Women's March in Chiapas
Image: S¡Paz

One of my former students found herself at the most recent women's march in Chiapas, an annual event described in a 2011 article on S¡Paz, from Servicio Internacional para la Paz. Her invitation to join her in an online presentation about her trip led me to review some of my earlier posts about this most pivotal corner of Latin America.

more to come ...

Home Cooking

Cod Almondine, June 2019

As people around the world are spending more time than ever at home, my favorite librarian and I are doing even more of what we always do: cooking for ourselves. And we notice that many other people are doing the same.

We have been sharing links to our cooking blog more than usual (and adding to it more regularly) since stay-at-home began in earnest. I am adding a link here, so that it will be easier for people to find who might not have the direct link. Our Nueva Receta Cada Semana blog is named for the ambition (more or less met over the years) to post one new recipe each week.

We now have over 600 cooking stories on the blog, most of them with sufficient information to be replicated, and with plenty of ideas about substituting ingredients according to availability. The blog is searchable (as all Blogger-based blogs are) by a keyword finder at the top-left and -- because this was started by a librarian -- subject terms on the right side of the screen that include words like vegetarian and easy.

Coffee, Chocolate, and Geographies of Resilience

I am very pleased to have been invited to discuss Coffee, Chocolate, and Geographies of Resilience on this Whistlepig Day -- 02/02/2020 @ 02:02:02 in the afternoon at the Vineyard Haven Public Library. I am even more delighted that the invitation came at the request of a BSU graduate who long ago took my Secret Life of Coffee Course.

RESILIENCE

Fogo, Política, Bife, y Soja

Fire, Politics, Beef, and Soy: The North Looks Amazônia Again is the title of my presentation at the Second International Seminar on Literature and Linguistics. I was very honored to be invited to speak to this gathering of scholars at UNIR, the Federal University of Rondônia in the western Amazon region of Brazil.

It was at this campus and in surrounding communities that I conducted three months of dissertation research in 1996, and to which I returned for smaller projects in 2000 and 2003.

(The Google Slides presentation is full of links to examples of discourse on the Amazon. Click everything!)

NOLA: Louisiana or Latin America?

This post is to provide access to the slides I used in my presentation New Orleans as a Latin American City, part of the BSU-LACS celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. I gave the presentation as a special session of my Honors Colloquium, New Orleans: Global City.

Africa in Latin America

This slideshow will not be very coherent for those who were not present for my September 16 presentation, but is provided here for those who were present and wish to follow up on some of the included links.