Crónicas Lenguaraces
It’s been months since I decided to make this blog a sort of bag of ideas to be able to structure an old project I’ve had in mind for a long time. Most bloggers apologize for not blogging enough and give bunch of reflexions on doing, throwing yourself out there, …
This post, written in collaboration with Tomomi Sasaki is part of a series on music as a bridge between Venezuela and Japan. Have you ever wondered what interests Venezuelans and Japanese could have in common? If manga and sushi were your first guess, we invite you to explore how Japanese …
I wonder how much most Venezuelans knew about Iran when presidents Chavéz and Ahmadinejad began to get politically cozy, and Venezuelan and …
In his pictures and through his visual work, Kim Badawi has been able to capture and expose unexpected and yet very real …
While this project progresses, I’ve decided to collect here different accounts of cultures mixing and interacting. And so, I thought it would …
I enjoyed a lot Devdutt Pattanaik’s TED talk, and I’ve shown it in class as much as I’ve been able to. I found …
During the last five or so years my life has been marked by the bittersweet experience of writing a thesis in Education …
I started studying Said’s On Orientalism as part of the process of understanding different kinds of representation of the “Orient” while exploring …
In response to Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations, Edward Saïd gave a lecture …
“We tend to form clusters based on similarity, and then we produce stereotypes about other clusters of people. In my opinion, one …