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A Summary of the Podcast: “Roundtable Discussion on Latin American Modernity� This podcast focuses on modernism and modernization in Latin America. The participants in the discussion are Rex Koontz an Assistant Art History Professor, Marc Zimmerman the Professor and Chair of Modern and Classical languages, Anadeli Bencomo an Associate Professor of Modern and Classical languages, and Thomas O’Brien a History Professor. All four of the participants discuss the many questions about Latin America’s history of modernity and how their modernity is perceived and compared to by the Europeans and Northern North American modernity. First Thomas O’Brien gives a working definition of modernity as it pertains to economics and politics. The working definition of modernity according to Thomas O’Brien dates back to Western Europe from the 15th Century through the 18th and 19thCenturies. The Western Europeans looked at modernity in terms of rationalism and the development of......

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