This fall LACIS is pleased to welcome several new individuals to its staff: Katarzyna Beilin, a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, will join LACIS as the Faculty Director. According to her online …
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Campbell, Claire
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Getz/Gilberto and the Evolution of Bossa Nova
Getz/Gilberto, named for the two featured artists on the album, American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist Joao Gilberto is one of the albums that best defines the Bossa Nova genre. According to blank, (insert …
Intersections of Queerness in Latin America
Ruth Llana Fernandez and Emi Frerichs are both Ph.D. Candidates in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UW-Madison. Their research, much of which they both completed in Argentina, centers on queerness, queer bodies, and …
Detailing the Themes in the Novels of Lucrecia Zappi
Lucrecia Zappi is a journalist and novelist from Buenos Aires, although she grew up in both Mexico City and Brazil. Her two novels, Acre and Jaguar Negro focus on mythical worlds with vast geographies, using …
Does Migrating Get You A Better Job? Looking At The Occupational Outcomes of Migration in Southern Mexico
The decision for migrants to pick up their lives and leave the familiarity of their homes is never an easy one to understand. However, one of the most commonly justified reasons for migration is the …
The Link Between Media Repression and Queer Repression in Cuba
Since criminalization and repression under the Castro “regime”, Cuba has had a long and treacherous history in discrimination of the queer community. Now that Castro is dead the relationship is even more complicated as Cuba …