Video Archive

This archive contains a selection of videos associated with LLILAS events between 2010 and 2014. Visit the LLILAS Benson YouTube channel for a more extensive archive of LLILAS and LLILAS Benson event videos.

Con la Vida se Defienden: Agua y Territorio de las Comunidades Yaquis de Sonora

April 14, 2014

2014 Lozano Long Workshop: Critical Reflections on Participatory Mapping of Indigenous Territory

January 31, 2014

Foro Urgente—Foreigners in their Own Country: Dominicans of Haitian Descent and the Struggle for Citizenship

January 22, 2014

The 2013 Lozano Long Conference — Refashioning Blackness: Contesting Racism in the Afro-Americas

February 20-22, 2013

The 2012 Lozano Long Conference: A LLILAS-CMAS Collaboration — Central Americans and the Latino/a Landscape: New Configurations of Latina/o America

February 22-25, 2012

Politics of Memory: Guatemala's National Police Archive, December 2, 2011

At a conference held on December 2, 2011, The University of Texas at Austin unveiled a website and digital archive making publicly accessible approximately twelve million pages of digitized records of the Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional (AHPN), the Guatemalan National Police Archive. The digital archive is the cornerstone of a collaboration designed to transform the AHPN’s unique records into a living archive in service of Guatemala’s historical memory. The website brings to researchers, human rights activists, and prosecutors around the world an archive that has already begun to help rewrite the history of state repression in Guatemala. 

The Politics of Memory conference was the beginning of a larger collaboration outlined in a 2011 letter of understanding between the AHPN and three institutions at the university: LLILAS, the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, and the University of Texas Libraries, which is home to the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection. 

Video of the entire conference, including two panels, two keynote addresses, and the unveiling of the digital archive, is available on the conference website.

Below is a brief video with comments highlighting the significance of the launching of the AHPN digital archive by several of those who were instrumental in this effort: Daniel M. Brinks, Co-Director of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice; Anna Carla Ericastilla, Director of the Archivo General de Centroamérica; Ariel Dulitzky, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Clinic; Fred Heath, Vice Provost and UT Libraries Director; Gustavo Meoño, National Coordinator of the AHPN; and Charles R. Hale, Director of LLILAS and the Benson Latin American Collection.

Feature: LLILAS Tinker Visiting Professor Juan Restrepo, Fall 2011

 

The Andes range exhibits a very delicate variety of ecosystems and environments along its prolonged trajectory, which has made it particularly vulnerable to the onslaught of modernity and human activity.

While the increasing intensity of natural disasters in tropical areas is often blamed on global warming, the causes might not be as intractable. Soil erosion and deforestation, both caused by unrestrained human activity, can affect an ecosystem more profoundly.

Dr. Juan Restrepo, one of Colombia's top hydrographers and the LLILAS 2011-­2012 Tinker Visiting Professor, offers his insights and vast knowledge to illuminate the issue. Drawing from Colombia's experience with man-made ecological modifications, he sketches out the implications of human pressure on fluvial ecosystems, with the hope that this information will better equip citizens and policymakers across the developing world.

Afro-Latin Performance Week, April 2011

LLILAS Associate Director Juliet Hooker discusses the background to this innovative collaboration between LLILAS and the ArtesAmericas program of the UT Performing Arts Center.

Yosvany Terry, Walking Over Waves (Madre Afrekete) - Afro-Latin Performance Week, Spring 2011

Presented in partnership with the Butler School of Music and LLILAS. Cuban-born Yosvany Terry brings his latest jazz project, Ye-dé-gbé and the Afro-Caribbean Legacy, to UT’s Hogg Memorial Auditorium for an evening infused with influences of the Afro-Caribbean Arará culture and the American jazz form. This performance was part of the LLILAS-sponsored Afro-Latin Performance Week, April 2011.

Lozano Long Student Awards Reception, Spring 2011

Haiti: Between Destruction and Hope

After the January 12, 2010, earthquake, Maggie Steber photographed the destruction along a quarter-mile stretch of the Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines—commonly known as the Grande Rue—a busy street that serves as both a commercial and cultural center in Haiti’s capital. The resulting composite image, which was featured in the New York Times’s coverage of the earthquake, depicts collapsed colonial buildings, local business owners, police guards, and a flurry of activity in the heart of Port-au-Prince. Accompanying the Grande Rue composites are a selection of photographs that highlight not only physical devastation but also hope and human agency in the face of disaster.

The Haiti: Between Destruction and Hope photo exhibit was on display at LLILAS from February 23 through April 8, 2011. The video below is from the photo exhibit opening reception on February 23. The Haiti photo exhibit was part of the The 2011 Lozano Long Conference – From Natural Events to Social Disasters in the Circum-Caribbean.

Periodismo y violencia en México, 2005-2010: Los años del miedo

Entrega de manuscrito (1/3); Jacinto Rodríguez (2/3); Darío Ramírez (3/3)