Martín Bowen

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Historian of Latin America and the Atlantic World @ NYU Abu Dhabi || Emotions, Politics, Communication || Latest book: "The Age of Dissent" https://www.unmpress.com/9780826364814/the-age-of-dissent/

"Mirabeau, inspired by the British antislavery movement’s successful use of images to raise awareness about the slave trade, commissioned this wooden model of a slaving ship in 1789."

model ship that opens along the keel. inside are wooden figures of slaves crowded between decks.

Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

Trump discloses 327 unreported stock trades made a day before his first tariff pause

Their disclosure, more than 14 months after they occurred, is the latest revelation to fuel calls for greater scrutiny of the president’s financial assets.

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Our new Hispanic issue opens with an article by Song No, who reads Garcilaso’s La Florida del Inca through the concepts of epistemic infrastructure and environmental knowledge. The essay reveals fractures in colonial ways of understanding nature.

Working the morning shift as a scholar in 1540, a browser tab and a word document opened on two screens, other needed texts opened and handy, an overfull mail account nearby, and a hot beverage in reach to make for the best working condition. Bonus: wearing a thinking hat. #academicchatter

A man sitting at a working desk, in 1540 setting, with a drinking cup, a few books, a writing desk with paper sheets, and lots of more details.

Er wurde als Vertreter des Neuen Deutschen Films und großer Gesellschaftsanalytiker bekannt. Später prägte er mit seiner Produktionsfirma das deutsche Privatfernsehen. Jetzt ist Alexander Kluge im Alter von 94 Jahren gestorben.

Filmemacher und Autor Alexander Kluge ist tot

Er wurde als Vertreter des Neuen Deutschen Films und großer Gesellschaftsanalytiker bekannt. Später prägte er mit seiner Produktionsfirma das deutsche Privatfernsehen. Jetzt ist Alexander Kluge im Alter von 94 Jahren gestorben.

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Me quedo con esto que dice sobre Raúl Ruiz: «Tenía una perspectiva del mundo absolutamente única. Había leído todo, había reflexionado sobre todo. Tenía el muy encantador hábito chileno de nunca responder una pregunta directamente, que, personalmente, me encantaba» www.latercera.com/culto/notici...

John Malkovich se presenta en la UDP: “El material de Roberto Bolaño demanda distancia y disciplina” - La Tercera

El actor, productor, director de cine y diseñador de moda estadounidense está en Chile para presentar su obra de teatro “El infame Ramírez Hoffman”, basada en escritos de Roberto Bolaño. En ese contex...

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“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

La Municipalidad de Lo Barnechea elaboró minutas internas con fotografías, domicilios, cédulas de identidad y antecedentes personales de vecinos que participaban en actividades públicas en la comuna, como concentraciones, publicaciones en RRSS sobre ollas comunes o convocatorias a manifestaciones.

Municipio elaboró fichas con datos personales y fotos de vecinos sin su consentimiento: Contraloría ordena cesar práctica

Contraloría concluyó que minutas con fotos, domicilios y cédulas de vecinos —incluido un excandidato a concejal— no constituyen colaboración válida en seguridad pública y exceden las atribuciones muni...

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In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

Georgia Is Letting a Railroad Seize Land a Black Family Has Owned For 100 Years

Descendants of enslaved people are fighting an attempt to use eminent domain to carve a spur through one of Georgia’s largest Black‑owned farms.

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