Monthly Archives: September 2012

Princeton acquires the papers of Vicente Leñero and Alejandro Rossi

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Alejandro Rossi at his desk [Alejandro Rossi Papers, 1812-2010, Box 31, Folder 6]

Ale­jan­dro Rossi at his desk [Ale­jan­dro Rossi Papers, 1812–2010, Box 31, Folder 6]

The Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library’s Man­u­scripts Divi­sion has recently added the papers of Vicente Leñero (1933– ) and of Ale­jan­dro Rossi (1932–2009) to its exten­sive col­lec­tion ofarchives, man­u­scripts, and cor­re­spon­dence by Latin Amer­i­can writ­ers and intel­lec­tu­als.

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Giancarlo Mazzanti at the MoMa

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Gian­carlo Maz­zanti, who is spend­ing the fall semes­ter teach­ing at PLAS, is fea­tured in the exhi­bi­tion “9+1 Ways of Being Polit­i­cal” which just opened at the Museum of Mod­ern Art (MoMa) in New York. The exhibit will be on view until March 2013:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1313

Ear­lier in the sum­mer Giancarlo’s work was fea­tured in a New York Times arti­cle on Colombia:

New York Times: Past Its Golden Moment, Bogotá Clings to Hope

Gian­carlo will be giv­ing a talk about his work on Novem­ber 6th at 12:00pm in 219 Burr Hall.

Roots of Brazil — A very important edition of a very important Brazilian essay

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Sér­gio Buar­que de Holanda’s Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazil­ian his­tory, soci­ety, and cul­ture. Orig­i­nally pub­lished in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an Eng­lish lan­guage trans­la­tion with a fore­word, “Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?” by Pedro Meira Mon­teiro, one of the world’s lead­ing experts on Buar­que de Holanda.

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