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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, […]

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 […]

UC Riverside's Mentoring Summer Research Internship Program

The Mentoring Summer Research Internship Program (MSRIP) are due Friday, February 17th. Students who are interested in applying to graduate school are invited to apply for the 2012 Mentoring Summer Research Internship Program.   This summer program provides a summer stipend to undergraduates and pairs them with faculty mentors who directs a summer research project. […]

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 […]

The Cuban Heritage Collection Fellowships Program

The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami is now receiving applicants for the 2012 Cuban Heritage Collection Fellowships Program http://www.library.miami.edu/chc /fellowships/graduatefellowships.html that is available to graduate students. The fellowships will provide assistance to graduate students who wish to use the research resources available at the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami. […]

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 […]