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Jorge Alvis
In summer 2019, I travelled to my home country, Colombia, thanks to a CLACLS Summer Travel Fellowships. It provided me with the resources to do archival work in Bogota, as well as to draft a paper for my second exam and to outline a presentation for an international conference. As a graduate student working in…
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Oscar Aponte
Thanks to the funding provided by CLACLS, I made a two-month-long research trip to Colombia in the summer. I visited the General Archive of the Nation in Bogota, where the official documentation from the Ministry of Public Works is deposited. Additionally, I visited Puerto Leguizamo—in the department of Putumayo—and Leticia—in the department of Amazonas—where I…
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Ana Flavia Badue
My doctoral research examines the social processes entailed in the digitization of Brazilian agribusiness and asks the extent to which digital and algorithmic devices (re)shape imperial, post-colonial, uneven relations. Thanks to the CLACLS travel fellowship, I visited the town of Piracicaba, located in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to conduct ethnographic research. During my…
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Tania Aviles Vergara
I am a PhD student in the Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures program. The Summer TravelFellowship 19 allowed me to spend five weeks in Santiago, Chile, conducting preliminary data-collection for my dissertation project. Thanks to the CLACLS Fellowship, I was able to visit several public archives such as Archivo Histórico Nacional, Archivo General del…
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Cesar Augusto Coca
The CLACS scholarship allowed me to know several archives of the city of Buenos Aires that were linked to the relations between literature and politics in Latin America. Because in my research proposal I study the figure of the intellectual, I found the materials of the 60s to be particularly valuable. For this purpose, I…
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