John MD Pohl to present "The Children of the Plumed Serpent" at the LACMA
Dr. Pohl will be presenting on Saturday, April 14th 2012 at 2pm. The event is free and open to the public. You will not want to miss it. Jump to the link for more info: http://www.lacma.org/event/lecture-plumed-serpent
Barbara Carrasco to Lecture at UC Riverside
MELLON “MEDICAL NARRATIVES” WORKSHOP GUEST SPEAKER L.A.-Based Artist Barbara Carrasco “A Brush with Life: An Artist’s Story of Survival.” This talk will be an overview of Carrasco’s life and art, as well as the impact cancer has had on her life’s work. She will show images of her paintings and drawings that have transformed as […]
Atahualpa's tomb found in Ecuador
After 10 years of searching the tomb of Atahualpa, the last emperor of the Inca empire, has been found in Ecuador. The find was made by an Ecuadorean researcher with help from the French Institute of Andean Studies. The digging part of the project does not begin until June, so we probably will not know what is […]
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 […]
Day 1 at "Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan" an Homage to Alfredo López Austin
Day one has come to an end and it was quite a show. All of the talks were very interesting and engaging. It was great seeing Dr. López Austin once again, he is not only a great scholar but an amazing person as well. I have said it before, and I will say it again, […]
Live From "Teotihuacan to Tenochtitlan"
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“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, […]
Visual Knowledge in the Early Modern Americas: Conference at the Huntington Library
In this conference, historians and art historians investigate the role and interpretation of visual objects such as drawings, prints, and paintings as well as theatrical performances in British, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spanish American colonies from 1500 to 1800. $25. FREE FOR STUDENTS! The only thing students have to pay for are the buffets, but […]
Nahuatl Course in LA
2012 IDIEZ Summer Nahuatl Institute in Los Angeles The Zacatecas Institute for Teaching and Research in Ethnology (IDIEZ), Macehualli Educational Research (MER), la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (UAZ) and California State University Los Angeles (CSULA) are partnering to offer the opportunity to study Classical and Modern Nahuatl at the beginning and intermediate-advanced levels in a […]
Indiana University Latin American Studies Graduate Student Conference: CFP
CALL FOR PAPERS Latin American Studies in Practice: Theory Beyond the Academy 2012 Indiana University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Student Conference Bloomington, Indiana April 13-14, 2012 The Indiana University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) is proud to host the inaugural CLACS Graduate Student Conference on April 13-14, 2012 […]