colombia – Colombian Studies Initiative

Colombian History Writing Workshop

September 5, 2025 September 5, 2025 By au2267

Join us for a panel and discussion with three NYU graduate students working on different topics and eras in Colombian history! Professors Lina Britto and Ricardo López-Pedreros will offer their critical comments and the event will be moderated by NYU Gallatin Professor Alejandro Velasco. Monday, September 15 at 12:30 pm.

Screening of “Stolen Photo”

March 7, 2025 February 28, 2025 By au2267

One hundred years ago, banana workers went on strike in Colombia. A US-owned fruit company refused to negotiate. A massacre ensued. This is the story of how the company and the Colombian military used a photograph to identify workers, and how the violence of December 1928 mutated into oblivion. Presenter:

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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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