Ultra-Processed People: Why we Can’t Stop Eating Food that isn’t Food
Ultra-Processed People: Why we Can’t Stop Eating Food that isn’t Food, Angie Natalia Bustos, Marianna Lahie Luna y Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera.
“[M]y ‘case’ to work up’: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson”
Summary: In “[M]y ‘case’ to work up’: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson” (William Carlos Williams Review, Volume 41, Number 2, 2024), Walter Scott Peterson argues that as a physician-poet Dr. Williams approaches his poetic material very much as he approaches his patients, and that the form of Paterson in particular is intentionally and actually reminiscent of the various forms…
Aurora Levins Morales: Silt: Prose Poems
Summary: In the late 1890s a US congressman argued that the United States had the right to seize Cuba because he believed it was made of silt that had washed out of the mouth of the Mississippi River which made it literally US soil. That story inspired Puerto Rican Jewish poet Aurora Levins Morales to…
“Play it Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts” Podcast: Jay Keyser (MIT), Lilliam Larregoity y William Pabón
Resumen: Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts (MIT, 2025) por Samuel Jay Keyser (MIT) aporta un profundo y matizado análisis de cómo la repetición funciona como herramienta creativa, como componente de la cognición y de las emociones, y como tanto, una dimensión de la experiencia humana. En este encuentro, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Lilliam Larregoity Pérez…
“Age Studies” Podcast: The Chronicle of Higher Education, MIT, London U3U
Summary: “Age, Creativity and Culture: Reconsidering how the Phases of Life Influence Knowledge, Experience, and Creation” by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera appeared in Nuevos Horizontes in 2024. The article examines age as a dimension of identity, creativity and cognition, and in this episode, Heidi Landecker, Samuel Jay Keyser, and Jenny Wilson consider the importance of age in intergenerational relationships.…
Elogio a las cercanías: crítica a la cultura tecnológica actual
29 de mayo de 2025 Elogio a las cercanías crítica a la cultura tecnológica actual Héctor José Huyke Presentado por Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera y Angie Natalia Bustos Resumen: Patrocinado por la Teagle Foundation, este episodio sobre Elogio a las cercanías celebra el compromiso mutuo y sostenido que se alcanza cuando los humanos estamos cara a cara. Es…
Daughter de Borikén – Lola Rosario Aponte
Resumen: Written as a love letter to her ancestral motherland, Daughter de Borikén (Editorial Pulpo, 2024) speaks to those who intimately know what it feels like to be diáspora-displaced. It is an ode to her guerrera ancestras and to the sacred archipelago of Borikén that gave them breath. In her poems, Lola shares her rage against the colonizers…
“An American Icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play”
Resumen: Una barbie es una muñeca de plástico que se puede vestir de varias formas, pero como bien señala Emily Aguiló-Pérez, profesora en West Chester College, también es un aparato imperialista que tiene una huella particular en Puerto Rico. “I was examining this aspect through the lens of Barbie as colonizer,” comenta Aguiló-Pérez, “What I…
“Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM”
Puntos clave/s: Episodio realizado por Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Catedrático de Humanidades, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez (UPR-M), Angie Natalia Bustos (UPR-M) y Camilo Durán (ingeniero, egresado de la UPR-M). Este podcast y el Instituto Nuevos Horizontes son patrocinados por la Mellon Foundation. En su conversación sobre Sharing Our Science, Herlihy-Mera, Bustos y Durán dialogan sobre la importancia…
“Golden Age” – Chronicle of Higher Education, MIT and U3U
Summary: “Golden Age” by Heidi Landecker appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education on 4 September 2024. The article discusses the scholarship of Jean H. Baker, Samuel Jay Keyser, and Lucy Freeman Sandler, three scholars who produce significant work in their nineties. Landecker highlights their enduring passion for scholarship and addresses broader societal conversations about the…