Post 9: Long live the ceviche!!!!

Hello again. This time I want to tell you about one of my favorite foods: Peruvian food. In Chile, it became fashionable 10 years ago, and today it is very common to have a Peruvian restaurant close to home. Thanks to the increase in migration we have had the chance to enjoy this wonderful meal as much as we want.

My favorite is the ceviche, it is fresh, healthy and delicious if you also accompany it with an ice white wine. Our country has the advantage of having a great variety of fish and seafood, and that allows us to create a great variety of ceviches.

My favorite Peruvian restaurant is called "La Esquina Limeña" and is in Ñuñoa, its prices are very convenient, and it is delicious, also the "pisco sour", haha.

I leave a picture of the ceviche prepared in that restaurant.

But I must say that Peruvian food is something that I usually cook. Most of the time, when I have time, I cook typical Chilean food, I love the "charquicán" and the "cazuela". But since I never have time to cook during the week, my lunches are usually leftovers of food that I prepared on the weekend or that I bought the night before, sometimes, when my pocket allows it, I buy food at the same university or with My friends ordered Thai food, sushi or Arabic food (our recent discovery).

Post 8: Social Memory and political violence

This semester I had an elective about collective memory and political violence. Isabel Piper was my teacher in this matter. She has a long history of research in this field and it was very enriching to work under her guidance. The students had to prepare the exposition of a text on social memory each week, each one presented between 2 and 3 texts. This allowed for a fairly updated review of this subject, in addition to reviewing the main and traditional exponents.
The course was very interesting for me and I learned a lot about the different ways of understanding memory and the epistemological basis of each theoretical proposal. Particularly, I am interested in approaching memory in terms of social action, that is, memory as an action that has concrete effects on people's lives, in the way of producing the world, creating the past and enabling certain futures. At that point it is important to mention Felix Vásquez, who in 2001 published the book "Memory as social action", where he exposes the main background to come to conceptualize memory as action and social construction. The contributions of Tomás Ibáñez are also significant. Critical social psychology and social constructionism are the area and the epistemological basis, respectively. The subject is of all my interest because my doctoral research deals precisely with the memory of older women regarding the gender violence they have experienced. In this sense, the theme addressed in the memory course has been a contribution to deepen the concept of collective and social memory.

Post 7: Latin Rock!!!!

Hi all, today I want to talk about Latin rock, especially the Argentine and Chilean, is one of the favorite types of music.

I grew up in a town isolated from the musical news, everything came later, so around 14 I started listening to Soda Estereo and Los Prisioneros. I must admit that Soda Estereo has been my favorite band for years !!! Soda Stereo was formed in Buenos Aires in 1982; the vocalist and guitarist was Gustavo Cerati, "Zeta" played the bass and Charly Alberti the drums, loved Charly Alberti, while my friends sighed for Gustavo, I filled the walls of my piece with photos of the group (actually from several groups) and of Charly in particular. Soda Estereo has undoubtedly been one of the most influential and important Ibero-American bands of all time and they became a legend of Latin music and I still listen to them today.

I never went to a Soda concert but to another Argentine artist of my favorites who is Fito Paez, actually I've been to two of his concerts, the last one I went to was last year at Movistar Arenas, in Santiago, and many years ago I went to the Sausalito Stadium where he also played.

Within Chilean Rock, obviously, Los Prisioneros are my favorite band, not only because of their vocalizations but also because of their political and social criticism. Years ago, in 2001, and after 12 years apart, the band played at the National Stadium, that concert was unforgettable, I remember that it had hurt my hand and it was with surgical stitches and a lot of pain but I forgot everything, singing, dancing and jumping like never before! I think that the enthusiasm and the hope that they would meet again was shared by all of us who went to the stadium that time.