Pterocast

Latinidad y negritud: racismo y transgresión en los medios culturales. Una conversación con la profesora Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez a propósito de su trayectoria investigativa y de su nuevo libro, Caribes 2.0, Media, Globalization and the Afterlives of Disaster Introducción 0:00 - 1:00 ¿En qué se basa tu investigación? 1:00 - 2:20 ¿Cuál es tu contribución a la sociedad? 2:20 - 7:15 Sobre redes soci...

To kick off the season of "Why in the World?" We are pleased to interview the newest addition to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas in Austin, Dr. Charlie Nagle. Professor Nagle earned his doctorate at Georgetown and is defined as a quantitative research methodologist working in the areas of second language learning, phonetics and phonology, and speech perception a...

Why are we graduate students? Instead of looking outward for answers, we have decided to look within. The professors and faculty who are part of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin have reached the highest levels and opened doors that were closed for a long time. So, why not ask them? Learn from their experiences and research, and gather inspiration in this...

Noemi Segarra Ramirez is a movement artist and co-founder of artist collective PISO Proyecto who visited The University of Texas at Austin last fall. We interviewed her on foot –walking is one of her artistic practices–and learned why she situates her work at the intersection of social justice and embodied practices. What does it take for our bodies to relate differently to people or places? In th...

In this interview, conducted by Monserrat Madariaga, Dr. Kim TallBear talks about new avenues for critical and creative academic research, how polyamory can help deconstruct compulsory monogamy in settler-colonial states. She also discussed the ideas of indigenous belonging, questioned the assumptions of ancestry in DNA tests and much more. "Dr. Kim TallBear is author of "Native American DNA: Trib...

La primera semana de octubre de 2019, la poeta Mapuche Huilliche Roxana Miranda Rupailaf visitó la Universidad de Texas en Austin invitada al evento “Poetics of Body and Territory: Challenging Colonial Continuity in the 21st Century. A Mapuche-Caribbean Dialogue”* (junto con la artista puertorriqueña Noemí Segarra Ramírez). Aprovechamos la oportunidad para realizar un Pterocast con Roxana, donde n...

El escritor puertorriqueño Pedro Cabiya visitó los estudios de Pterodáctilo y conversó con nuestro equipo sobre su proceso creativo, su película Reinbou (Cacique Films, 2017), su novela del mismo nombre y otros de sus trabajos de ficción, "Tercer Mundo", "Trance" y "Malas Hierbas". Nos contó, también, qué temas lo motivan a escribir y por qué prefiere ser escritor que guionista (Entrevista conduci...