Upcoming Talks at Rancho Los Alamitos

Sunday, March 18, 2012 1pm and 2pm Favorite Tales of the Acjachemem People – Adelia Sandoval, Cultural Director of the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians, will delight all ages with tales of the native Acjachemem people. Two duplicate sessions. Reservations required. Sunday, March 18, 2012 3pm – 5pm A Native American Woman’s Perspective on Zorro – Adelia […]

Call for Papers – Global Studies Conference, Moscow, Russia, 20-22 June 2012

FIFTH GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russia 20-22 June, 2012 http://onglobalisation.com/conference-2012/ The deadline for the next round in the call-for-papers (a title and short abstract) is 20 March 2012. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission.

DAY 2 AT “TEOTIHUACAN TO TENOCHTITLAN” AN HOMAGE TO ALFREDO LÓPEZ AUSTIN

Day two was spectacular. The presentations were inspiriational in terms of the level of scholarship that a human can achieve. Dr. López Austin’s talk was moving and gave insight into his life and his experience as a scholar. Dr. López Austin told us about his short lived career as a lawyer, and his abrupt switch to a less […]

Monsters and Myths in the Making: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium: CFP

Monsters and Myths in the Making: An Interdisciplinary Graduate StudentSymposium April 21, 2012 History Graduate Society University of Florida Keynote: Dr. W. Scott Poole, College of Charleston, author of *Monsters inAmerica: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting* (2011).  Vampires and werewolves breaking hearts, zombies overtaking the world, andthe Brothers Grimm solving mysteries, […]

The Nahuatl Language Project to Host Dr. John Sullivan at UCR

The Nahuatl Language Project at UCR will be hosting Dr. John Sullivan, the director of the IDIEZ Summer Nahuatl Institute in Los Angeles . Students interested in the summer program are encouraged to attend the event.   Nahuatl Language Project at UCR’s Meeting info: 2/9/2012 7PM INTN 4043 University of California, Riverside More information on the summer course can be found […]

Nahuatl Prefix Reference Table

This little chart might come in handy for those of you learning classical Nahuatl from central Mexico. I will be posting a prefix table for modern Huastecan Nahuatl soon. (click to enlarge)

“Traversing Borders” at UCR: Call for Papers

“First Annual UCR Art History Graduate Conference, Saturday, May 12, 2012 ‘Traversing Borders’: Call for Papers Academic scholarship rarely fits neatly into the confines of a single disciplinary label. Many academic studies cross between disciplinary, regional and temporal borders.  For example, Italian Renaissance studies examine a geographic region made up of independent city-states that were not, […]