Past Event Category: Latin American and Caribbean History

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  • Oct 5
    Francisco Scarano Lecture: “Como anguila: Eel Translations and the Colonial Embodiments of Language”

    Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

    Chazen Museum of Art Auditorium

    Drawing from a work in progress, Roque will explore translations that have irrevocably marked Puerto Rican history and develop a theory of decolonial, eel-like translations. The lecture pays homage to the slippery movements we make to escape a colonial grasp and will be followed by an opportunity for audience questions and conversation. The event is …

  • Sep 23
    Beto Torrens y Bomba Soberao

    Puerto Rican Studies Hub

    Helmsley Theater

    The Puerto Rican Studies Hub invites you to an evening of music and conversation with Beto Torrens y Bomba Soberao, featuring musicians and students from Bembé Drum & Dance, a Milwaukee-based cultural arts organization centered on Afro-Latino musical traditions. Part of our Luisa Capetillo Cultural Series, the program will explore the history, rhythms, and communal …

  • Oct 28
    “Peasants, Doctors, and Empires: Puerto Rico at the Turn of the 20th Century”

    Francisco A. Scarano (UW-Madison)

    Chazen Museum Auditorium

    4:30pm Reception; 5:30pm Lecture

  • Oct 7
    “The Return of the Tupinambá Cloak: Indigenous Art, Memory, and Politics”

    Elisa Frühauf Garcia (Fluminense Federal University – Brazil (UFF))

    Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art

    This talk will explore the recent return of the Tupinambá cloak to Brazil and the broader questions it raises around Indigenous identity, cultural repatriation, and historical memory. Prof. Frühauf Garcia is an expert on the Indigenous peoples of Brazil. Her current research focuses on the relationships between Native women and European men in the sixteenth …

  • Apr 30
    Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Spanish Martial Nobility in Colonial Lima’s Black Militias

    Sally Hayes

    Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)

    Seventeenth-century Lima, the Pacific gateway to the imperial silver of Potosí, was frequently threatened by Dutch and English ships seeking to seize its treasures. Lima’s Black citizens, who by the second decade of the century had formed officially recognized militia corps, were among the city’s fiercest defenders. They were able to trade on their military …

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