Jun 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Credit: The National Archives (UK), CO 123/335/1,’Hurricane Disaster in Belize’, 1931. By Oscar Webber (CLACS) On 10 September 1934, Antonio Soberanis Gomez and several volunteers fed hundreds of hungry, mostly unemployed Belizeans for free. They offered this...
Apr 5, 2022 | Argentina, LAC and the World, Latin America, South America, Uncategorized
Image 1: A hyperreal depiction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at Tierra Santa. Credit: Brigid Lynch By Brigid Lynch (CLACS) 23 March 2022 marked the second anniversary of the first UK lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The lockdown and the restrictions that...
Mar 2, 2022 | Amazonas, Peru
By Giuliana Borea (Newcastle University) The works of Rember Yahuarcani, Brus Rubio and Harry Pinedo/Inin Metsa were already displayed at the Art Exchange Gallery. With Covid safety protocols in place, the exhibition Place-making, World-making: Three Indigenous...
Dec 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Raúl Valdivia-Murgueytio (Newcastle University) I first encountered José María Arguedas’ photographs of Chimbote, a port city some 300 miles north of Lima, in an exhibition at the Casa de la Literatura Peruana in 2018. I was in Lima researching a photographic...
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