Crossing Fronteras
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Joe Aguilar and John Galante on the making of Crossing Fronteras
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast series surveys the unique ecosystem of contemporary scholarship and art being generated by scholars and creatives in New England who are...
Eden Medina on the role of science and technology in Chile's political history
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eden Medina (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), an historian of science and technology, addresses relationships between technology and politics ...
Javier Puente on Peru's central highlands, identity politics, and dynamite
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Javier Puente (Smith College) discusses historical relations between indigenous communities and the state during Peru's internal armed conflict, the...
Macarena Gómez-Barris on extractivism's threats to humans and the more-than-human
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University), an interdisciplinary scholar, speaks on decolonial advocacy and creative expression in indigenous activis...
Aarti Smith Madan on Argentinian intellectuals and Afro-Brazilian street art
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aarti Smith Madan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), a scholar of Latin American literature and spatial humanities, maps the trajectory of her intere...
Carmen Jarrín on the joys and hazards of trans art and activism in Brazil
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carmen Jarrín (College of the Holy Cross) engages in a conversation about ethnographic research on trans and travesti creators and activists in Bra...
Ginetta Candelario on feminist histories of the Dominican Republic in transnational perspective
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ginetta Candelario (Smith College) addresses historical feminist advocacy and resilience in the Dominican Republic, transnational solidarities forged...
Carlos Odria on improvisation and notions of fluidity that influence his music
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Musician and scholar Carlos Odria (Worcester State University) talks about heavy metal, Brazilian jazz, Daoism, the picado technique, migration from ...
Ramón Rivera-Moret on comparative cosmologies and using multiplicities in storytelling through film
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmaker Ramón Rivera-Moret (Rhode Island School of Design) discusses turning his fascination with astronomy into a film project that has taken him...
Koichi Hagimoto on Transpacific modernity and ethnic Japanese writers in Latin America
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Koichi Hagimoto (Wellesley College), a literary scholar of Transpacific studies and comparative anti-colonial resistance movements, discusses his conc...
Introducing Crossing Fronteras
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts John Galante and Joe Aguilar introduce Crossing Fronteras, a podcast series that surveys the unique ecosystem of contemporary scholarship and a...