Crossing Fronteras

Crossing Fronteras

This podcast series surveys the unique ecosystem of contemporary scholarship and art being generated by scholars and creatives in New England who are working in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Episodes in the series address topics such as knowledge production and technological adaptation in the Global South; trans activism and feminism in transnational perspective; indigenous perspectives on the cosmos and the capitalist state; and processes of cultural hybridization though migration and South-South relations. Join us for a fascinating set of conversations from thinkers and innovators crossing boundaries and expanding the frontiers of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The co-hosts for the first season of Crossing Fronteras are John Galante and Joe Aguilar. The music for Crossing Fronteras was written, performed, and recorded by Dr. Carlos Odria, a Peruvian-born guitarist and ethnomusicologist, and an Assistant Professor of Music and Interdisciplinary Arts at the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Worcester State University. To learn more about the Crossing Fronteras podcast, visit https://wp.wpi.edu/lacs/podc/

Episodes

April 24, 2024 62 mins
Aarti Smith Madan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), a scholar of Latin American literature and spatial humanities, maps the trajectory of her interests in nineteenth-century Argentine nation-builders, gauchos as literary subjects, and histories of South-South interactions through connections between Argentina and India. She also outlines her research on the manifestations of Afro-Brazilian consciousness in street art, artistic ide...
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Carmen Jarrín (College of the Holy Cross) engages in a conversation about ethnographic research on trans and travesti creators and activists in Brazil’s artivismo movement as they contend with violence and right-wing nationalism. Carmen connects this work to earlier investigations of plastic surgery, biopolitics, and relationships between gender, beauty, and national identity in Brazil.
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Musician and scholar Carlos Odria (Worcester State University) talks about heavy metal, Brazilian jazz, Daoism, the picado technique, migration from Peru, and other influences on his improvisational, hybridized, and fluid guitar-playing style. He also reviews the ethnomusicology research he conducted on urban tambores groups that transformed his perceptions of cultural production in metropolitan Lima.
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Koichi Hagimoto (Wellesley College), a literary scholar of Transpacific studies and comparative anti-colonial resistance movements, discusses his conception of Transpacific modernity. He also outlines his recent work on cultural and political relationships between Japan and Argentina, and his considerations of the literature and racial identities of people of Japanese descent in Latin America.
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Hosts John Galante and Joe Aguilar introduce Crossing Fronteras, a podcast series that surveys the unique ecosystem of contemporary scholarship and art being generated by scholars and creatives in New England who are working in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 
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