Faculty Working Groups

September 2, 2021 September 2, 2020 By mfs459

Under CLACS FWG tradition, faculty present their research about a topic of relevance to Colombia and engage in conversation with colleagues and with the public.

Recent Activity

Escribir sobre mujeres y filosofía desde el Caribe

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Keywords on Colombia and its Diasporas

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Book Talk| Plebeian Consumers: Global Connections, Local Trade, And Foreign Goods In Nineteenth-Cecntury Colombia

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Panel: “Territorios, violencias y Derechos Humanos en Montes de María y el sur de Bolívar”

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CSI’s Cultural Coordinator Luis Rincón Alba just published “Joe Arroyo’s “Musical Mechanism”
Solidarity and Redemption in an Afro-Caribbean Carnival Song”. An essay on how Joe Arroyo’s music, specifically his carnival compositions, generate modes of solidarity that transcend national and temporal boundaries. His “musical mechanism,” employing the clave rhythm and improvisational structures, facilitates a collective reinhabitation of the past, a redemptive challenging of colonial divisions between the living and the dead. Arroyo’s work, therefore, demonstrates the transformative power of music to forge solidarity across carnival participants.

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Professor Lina Britto along with friend and colleague Ricardo López-Pedreros celebrate the release of their two edited volumes: Histories of Solitude: Colombia, 1820s-1970s and Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s bring together the work of more than 40 scholars from half a dozen disciplines working in universities in Colombia, the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. They explore how a country that is usually presented as a rarity in the Latin American context actually provides critical examples to re-examine major historical problems in the Americas. They are published by Routledge in the series Studies in the History of the Americas in 2024.

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