Post Tagged with: "Polivision"

Journalism can help Guatemala’s citizens fight fascism (video column by JosĆ© Zamora)

In this video column, JosĆ© Zamora, a Guatemalan journalist, chief communications and impact officer at Exile Content Studios, highlights how the government of President Giammattei  exploited the COVID-19 crisis to establish and promote an authoritarian political system that suppresses critical voices. Zamora further emphasizes the role of journalism in empowering […]

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How did the pandemic impact Mexico’s culture and independent art? (Video column by Adela Goldbard)

From the militarization of the citizens to socially committed art, Mexican artist and professor Adela Goldbard helps us understand Mexico’s situation and challenges after the pandemic. This video column is part of our series on Reimagining Latin America After the Pandemic.  Adela Goldbard is an interdisciplinary artist/educator/scholar from Mexico City. […]

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[ONLINE CONFERENCE] Re-imagining Latin America in the Pandemic: Media, Culture, and Democracy: PERU

Polivision, the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech, and the Atlanta Global Studies Center present ā€œReimagining Latin(o) America in the Pandemic: Media, Culture, and Democracy,ā€ a series of video presentations/interviews with public intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and cultural producers of the region who have covered and/or addressed the crisis in […]

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Chef Maricela Vega: “Decolonized cuisine empowers people to grow their own food [VIDEO]

This episode of Hybrid Atlanta features Mexican chef Maricela Vega. She talks about decolonized cuisine, sustainable food industries with locally-sourced products, and her entrepreneur experience with her food pop up Chicomecōātl. Maricela is the chef at Atlanta’s 8arm restaurant. Created by Paul Alonso, Hybrid Atlanta is a video interview series with […]

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Afrotrónicos: the new sounds of Afro-Peruvian electronic music

During the second decade of the new millennium, several Peruvian artists embarked on musical projects that articulated Afro-Peruvian culture with the sounds of contemporary electronics. Translocal styles such as grime, dubstep, trap and global bass were freely synthesized by these musicians to weave a rhythmic and sonic curtain. Jaws [quijadas] […]

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