Developed under the leadership of Quechua Instructor Carlos Molina-Vital and the Quechua Innovation and Teaching Initiative (QINTI), Ayni is an open-access e-textbook designed to teach...
Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Dr. Cristóbal Bianchi (Art & Design), together with the Colectivo Casa Grande, recently inaugurated the art installation Panóptico at the Palacio Pereira Art Gallery in Santiago, Chile.Funded by...
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) is dedicated to advancing the scholarly study of the history of American foreign relations. Through research sponsorships, annual meetings, and publications, SHAFR promotes the study, advancement, and dissemination of...
Course:ARCH 403: spatial theories from/with the CaribbeanT/R: 11:00am - 12:20pmAt the Architecture Building, RM 205 Description:THE CARIBBEAN has long been rendered peripheral in architectural history and theory. This seminar instead approaches it as an affective ground for rethinking space altogether. Through atmospheric, archipelagic [Glissant], embodied [Wynter], and subaltern [Fanon, Césaire] modes of inquiry, we will explore spatial theories from/with the Caribbean, refusing extraction in favor of relational, situated, and sensorial ways of...
Carlos Molina, Quechua instructor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was recently featured on Nuqanchik, a national Quechua-language news program in Peru. In the interview, he discusses the Qinti Project, an initiative that promotes the teaching and learning of Quechua in the U.S., and...
Join us to celebrate the grand reopening of the museum, including premiering new exhibitions—Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600, created with partners in Peru, and an introduction to New York-based contemporary artist...
On March 15, more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants were accused of engagement in gang activity and deported from the U.S. — not to Venezuela, but to El Salvador, some 1,600 miles away from their home country. Ellen Moodie, an anthropology professor at the...