{"title":"Featured","description":"\u003cp\u003eCorresponds to book carousel on the landing page for ISLAA's online bookshop: https:\/\/islaa.org\/bookshop\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"refined-material-petroculture-and-modernity-in-venezuela","title":"Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRecipient of the \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e24\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Annual \u003cspan class=\"il\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eALAA\u003c\/span\u003e-Arvey Foundation Book Award and the \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eLASA Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVenezuela’s turbulent twentieth century saw boom and bust as the former Spanish colony transformed into a major postwar cultural player. 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The seventh symposium marked a return to an in-person format after two years of online programming due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Speakers and moderators from Mexico, Brazil, and various US institutions came together for two days of panels on cartography, geography, and spatial dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVistas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e10 is edited by symposium organizers Corey Loftus, Tatiana Marcel, and Rebecca Yuste. The wide range of topics covered in the symposium is represented in the essays selected for this issue, by Jerónimo Reyes-Retana, Claudia Garay Molina, and Caroline Alciones de Oliveira Leite. The symposium concluded with highly anticipated keynote lectures delivered by Delia Cosentino, associate professor in the history of art and architecture at DePaul University, and Adriana Zavala, Andrew W. 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