Dia de Los Muertos 2011 in Downtown Riverside

The City of Riverside will be observing the “Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead) in front of the Riverside Municipal Museum. The event starts at 6pm and ends at 9PM on Wednesday November 2nd, 2011. Community members will have altars, vendors will be selling merchandise and there will also be Aztec dancers performing. […]

Cultural Treasures of Mexico at CSUF

Cal State Fullerton has an exhibit on the P’urhépecha, of Michoacan. The exhibit goes until December 22, 2011. Jump to the link for more information.

Indian Cosmovision in Maps from New Spain at the AGN (Mexico)

El Archivo General de la Nación tiene el gusto de informarle que la exposición  La cosmovisión indígena en los mapas novohispanos  se inaugurará en el Museo de Artes e Historia de Guanajuato en León, Guanajuato, el día de mañana, miércoles 19 de octubre a las 20:30 hrs.  El jueves 20 de octubre a las 18:30 […]

PCCLAS 2011 Conference Schedule

If you are in the LA area from during 10/28-10/292011, I suggest you check out the PCCLAS conference at CSULA.   PACIFIC COAST COUNCIL LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES Click the link for their Blog

Come Support UC Students at PCCLAS 2011

PCCLAS will be at CSULA, and our panel will be on 10/29/2011. Here is the info: Panel 17: The Complexities of Nueva España: Creation, Contention, Fusion, and Disintegration SH C 136 Chair: E.A. Polanco (UCR) Carlos Rivas (UCLA), ““The Rise and Fall of the Republic of Central America: Art, Cultural Synthesis, Homogenization, and the Problem(s) of […]