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4 8 l l i l a s  b e n s o n   p o r t a lNEW AFFILIATED FACULTYSix faculty members have announced their affiliation with the Teresa Lozano Long Insti-tute of Latin American Studies. We are proud to serve as the main intellectual space for interdisciplinary collaboration among UT Latin Americanists on campus. LLILAS has 160 affiliated faculty across UT departments and colleges, including deans and chairs. Our affiliated faculty help us enrich our research and programmatic initiatives and expand the diverse catalogue of undergraduate and graduate classes on Latin American issues. The newest affiliated faculty are: Rajeev Patel, research professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs; Erin Rodriguez, assistant profes-sor, Department of Educational Psychology; Roxanne Schroeder-Arce, assistant pro-fessor, Department of Theatre and Dance; Juan J. Colomina-Alimaña, assistant pro-fessor of sociolinguistics through the Center for Mexican American Studies; Tim Beach, professor, Department of Geography and the Environment; and Michael Rivera, assistant professor, Departments of Government and Mexican American and Latina/o Studies. ✹ BENSON LATIN AMERICAN COLLECTIONIn December 2014, Dr. Julianne Gilland was named Associate Director for Scholarly Resources at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. As associate director, Gilland will fill the chief leadership role at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection. Dr. Gilland joined LLILAS Benson as Special Collections Curator in January 2013 after serving as Deputy Director of the Robbins Collection, a rare books and manuscripts col-lection at UC Berkeley. Her work as curator has been fundamental to the Benson’s col-laboration with LLILAS in various ways. In researching and mounting exhibitions that showcase the Benson’s holdings, she has brought both well-known and lesser-known library treasures into public view. Collabora-tions with Latin Americanist faculty have led to exhibitions whose content complements scholarly programming, such as the annual Lozano Long Conference. Gilland’s program-ming work with campus and local cultural institutions and community organizations, including the Austin Public Library and Austin Independent School District, has raised public awareness not only of the Benson, but of Latin American arts, culture, and politics through-out Austin and beyond the Forty Acres.Gilland received her BA from the Univer-sity of Notre Dame and her PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley, where she specialized in early modern Spain and Spanish America.UPCOMING LLILAS BENSON EVENTSFALL 2015 SeptemberExhibition of Brazilian Cordel   Literature, Benson Latin American   CollectionStudent Photography Exhibition,   Benson Latin American CollectionForo Urgente on Venezuela Coral Reefs at Risk in the  Circum–Caribbean RegionOctoberLozano Long Workshop: Race in   BrazilGabriel García Márquez: His Life  and Legacy, 12th biennial Flair   Symposium with the Harry Ransom   CenterNovemberColloquium: Brazil 1995–2015:   Twenty Years of Change SPRING 2016 FebruaryILASSA36 Student Conference on   Latin America2016 Lozano Long Conference:  Migrant Detention, Forced  Migration, and Neoliberalism in   the AmericasAprilFourteenth Annual ¡A Viva Voz!   Celebration of Latina/o Arts and   Culturewww.utexas.edu/cola/insts/llilas/www.lib.utexas.edu/bensonVISITING ACADEMICS The LLILAS Visiting Academics programs bring new perspectives and regional insights to the study of Latin America. Distinguished Latin American scholars are brought to The University of Texas at Austin to teach courses or a set of classes, sharing their expertise and facilitating the exchange of ideas. During the 2014–2015 academic year, LLILAS Benson welcomed two visiting scholars. Claudia Cardoso-Martins is professor of psychology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, and taught a course in the Department of Psychology through the UT In-ternational Office. Margarita Huayhua of Peru came to campus through the post-doctoral Mellon Sawyer Research Fellowship, co-sponsored by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program (NAIS). A native Quechua speaker, Huayhua participated in Mellon Sawyer symposia and presented the public lecture “Home Birth, Home Invasions: Encroaching on the Household’s Sovereignty in the Andes.”LLILAS Benson News

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