Hace cien años. Trabajadores bananeros organizaron una huelga en Colombia. Una empresa frutera radicada en los Estados Unidos se negó a negociar. Una masacre. Foto robada -- Domingo 29 de septiembre, 9:00 pm Señal Colombia RTVC Colombia. youtube.com/watch?v=U6XGZ3…

Colleague and friend Kevin Coleman not just a brilliant historian. Also a documentary director! His film about photography and 1928 massacre in Colombia's banana zone to be shown on Sunday. "Foto robada" 29 septiembre, 9pm, Señal Colombia! youtu.be/hvs0_sVfBA8?si…

Our bumper, 30th-anniversary issue comprises 5 commissioned articles, 2 snapshots and 4 research articles, exploring (among many other topics) banana disease, flooding in medieval and early modern flooding Hull and multi-species toxic histories! #envhist liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/wh…

¡Bogotá está de fiesta! Este año se cumplen 50 años de la Ciclovía dominical y en esta columna les doy 10 razones por las que debemos celebrar esta joya de nuestra ciudad ❤️💛 lasillavacia.com/red-de-experto…

Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic is coming soon! I am grateful to so many people, especially: -esteemed scholars in 🧵for their generous readings of the book -my editor Cecelia Cancellaro Cambridge University Press - History & El Anatsui for this magnificent artwork /1

I admire and appreciate Ana María Otero-Cleves because she teaches -by her example and her dedication- how fertile it is to think of the past as alive, rich and moving. I am excited to read her book from which we can expand our curiosity. I celebrate your book and your work. Congrats!

So happy and honored to be a part of this volume with amazing colleagues. It will be out in December!

"I would like to call on the people of Canada to reflect on your country's support for mining in Latin American countries like Ecuador. In no way does this benefit us. On the contrary, it brings destruction, devastation and even death to our communities." cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

The Rutgers- Princeton History Latin America & Caribbean Workshop second session. We will discuss "Nahua Noblewomen and the Abolition of Polygyny in 16th Century New Spain" by Josh Anthony with Dr. Pizzigoni from CU History Department as a commentator. Register 👇 rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Overjoyed that the cover for 'Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic' includes these beautiful & generous words by esteemed scholars whose own works have been so foundational & inspiring. Pre-order w/20% discount w/code: SFBE2024 cambridge.org/core/books/sla…

En los debates sobre regionalización se da por sentado que la centralidad de Bogotá ha dependido del gobierno. Variable fundamental, sin duda. Pero existen otras cuyo conocimiento puede llevar a mejor políticas públicas 1/n.

Next week at the University of Toronto

Next week! Join us for some cake as we celebrate the launch of "El Paradigma Sur", the new student-run Interdisciplinary Journal of Latin American Studies at U of T. 🗓️ Thursday, October 17, 2024 ⏰ 3:00 to 5:00 PM 📍 Northrop Frye 007 ✉️ RSVP: uoft.me/aXM

The work by today's winners of the Nobel Prize in economics has been challenged by scholars like Yuen Yuen Ang, Mushtaq Khan, and Ha-Joon Chang. Read them! Then you will understand that enforcing the North's capitalist institutions in the South does not lead to development.

Let me repeat. It is not only that AJR fails to explain Chinese development, they don't account for the Western / American experience, either. Mythologized narratives about institutions Not only mislead developing countries They also blind rich countries from seeing

This was a good way to spend an hour of my day today: archive.ph/v5Gc1

We'll be discussing Colombia,Wed Oct 23th at 5pm London Time. Join us. Lina Britto Paulo Drinot Ana María Otero-Cleves Catalina Munoz UCL Americas Public Seminar Series: Colombia RevisitedUCL Institute of the Americas University CollegeLondon ucl.ac.uk/americas/event…

Cuándo mis colegas Elizabeth Dickinson y Bram Ebus fueron a la Amazonía colombiana, oyeron un mensaje claro: el EMC controla cuándo se deforesta y cuándo no. Crisis Group examinó data satelital que corrobora esos testimonios. Un breve 🧵 https://www.crisis Group.org/es/latin-ameri…

Amigas y amigos en Colombia, 'Foto robada' ahora está en RTVC: rtvcplay.co/peliculas-docu… Un resumen de la peli y un enlace a una entrevista en #ElCalentao con su servidor: senalcolombia.tv/articulos/foto…

¿Cómo no caer en el lugar común de "Inicia la #COP16" en una portada? Preferimos publicar ilustraciones hechas por indígenas de la Amazonia, recopiladas por Tropenbos International Col, para llamar la atención sobre la biodiversidad que no podemos seguir perdiendo. elespectador.com/ambiente/cop16…