Aesthetic and Design of Latin American Technology
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Upcoming Meetings
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Past Meetings
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September 23, 2021
Presenters
- Yovanna Pineda, University of Central Florida, "Gendered spaces/representations of machine design and repair in Argentina, 20th Century"
- Dafne Cruz Porchini, Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, “Fermín Revueltas fresco Alegoría de la productividad (1934)”
Agenda (updated 9/5/21)- 1:00pm-1:15pm - Introductions
- 1:15pm-1:20pm - Race & Tech. Announcement
- 1:20pm-1:50pm - Speaker (Yovanna) presentation + QA/comments
- 1:50pm 2:20pm - Speaker (Dafne) presentation + QA/comments
- 2:20pm-2:30pm - Discussion: "What is your idea of aesthetics and design?"
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Group Conveners
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Diana J. Montaño
Diana J. Montaño is Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Her teaching and research interests broadly include the construction of modern Latin American societies with a focus on technology and its relationship to nationalism, everyday life, and domesticity. Her first book Electrifying Mexico looks at how "electrifying agents" (businessmen, salespersons, inventors, doctors, housewives, maids, and domestic advisors) used electricity, both symbolically and physically, in the construction of a modern nation. Taking a user-based perspective, Dr. Montaño reconstructs how electricity was lived, consumed, rejected, and shaped in everyday life (https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/montano-electrifying-mexico). For her articles on the intersection of humor and class in streetcar accidents see History of Technology (https://tinyurl.com/5cr7r6hu -) and Technology's Stories (https://tinyurl.com/p4ucsmns). For her HAHR article on power theft in turn-of-the-century Mexico see https://tinyurl.com/9chy8s8v
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Yovanna Pineda
Dr. Yovanna Pineda is an associate professor in the UCF Department of History, specializing in the history of technology and economic history in Argentina. She authored Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy: The Industrialization of Argentina, 1890-1930 (Stanford, 2009) https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=9726. Her ongoing manuscript, Sensational Machines: Techno-aesthetic Culture in Rural Argentina (20th Century), examines the aesthetics of machine design, gendered spectacle, and the visual culture of rural development. Drawing on ethnographic methods, archival sources, oral histories, visual culture, social media, and material culture, this transdisciplinary work charts the genealogy of rural technological culture. Her university page: https://history.cah.ucf.edu/faculty-staff/?id=684)
Recent publications include- Yovanna Pineda (2022). Spaces of Design & Repair in Twentieth Century Argentine Factories. Histories of Maintenance and Repair Workshop. Université du Luxembourg, C2DH Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, https://repair.uni.lu/blog/spaces-of-design-repair-in-twentieth-century-argentine-factories/
- Yovanna Pineda (2020). Ways of Seeing Maintenance and Repair, Argentina. Technology Stories, vol. 8, no. 2 (September). http://www.technologystories.org/ways-of-seeing-maintenance-and-repair-argentina/
- Yovanna Pineda (2020). International and Local Collaboration in the Social Design of the Harvester in Argentina during the Long Twentieth Century (1900-2010). Historia Agraria de América Latina (HAAL, ISSN 2452-5162), 1:1, 70-93.
OpEd:
- Yovanna Pineda (2021). Law to Protect Free Speech Actually Endangers it, Orlando Sentinel, OpEd, 23 July: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-op-regulating-free-speech-schools-hb233-20210723-jyo2eg5kgndhxhdha27jwto7ya-story.html
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Mikael Wolfe
Mikael Wolfe is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University focusing on the intersection of social, political, environmental, and technological change in modern Latin America. In his scholarship and teaching, he employs interdisciplinary historical methods to explore questions of water control, agrarian reform, and the effects of climate and weather on the process of social revolution in Mexico and Cuba. He is the author of Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico (Duke, 2017) and numerous articles and book chapters on Mexico and Cuba, including in Journal of the Southwest, Mexican Studies, Hispanic American Historical Review, and Environmental History, as well as op-eds and feature articles in The Washington Post, The Orlando Sentinel, North American Congress on Latin America, and Jacobin. His second book project is titled Rebellious Climates: How Weather and Geography Shaped the Cuban Revolution, 1955-1971.
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