Matthew Restall is a historian whose scholarship focuses on six areas of specialization: the Spanish Conquest era in the Americas; Aztec and Maya history; the history of colonial Mesoamerica, primarily […]

Our monthly community breakfast will take place on Wednesday, February 4, at 9:00 a.m. Come out to Girvetz 2320 to enjoy free bagels and coffee!

Despite being Costa Rica’s most widely spoken minority language, Limonese Creole lacks constitutional recognition and continues to bear a legacy of social stigma. In response, a collaboration between the Programa […]

Archaeology in the Northern Peruvian Andes is not only about the past—it is about how memory continues to live in bodies, territories, and everyday practices. In this talk, I draw […]

Our monthly community breakfast will take place on Wednesday, March 4, at 9:00 a.m. Come out to Girvetz 2320 to enjoy free bagels and coffee!

Our monthly community breakfast will take place on Wednesday, April 1, at 9:00 a.m. Come out to Girvetz 2320 to enjoy free bagels and coffee!

Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente), dir. Ciro Guerra, 2015, 125 min. — Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela. A breathtaking ethnographic odyssey through the heart of the Colombia Amazon, Embrace […]

Mixteco Knot (Nudo Mixteco), dir. Ángeles Cruz, 2021, 91 min. — Mexico. Taking place in a rural Mixtec village in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, Nudo Mixteco follows the return of María, Esteban, and Toña, each […]

Ixcanul, Volcano (Ixcanul, Volcán), dir. Jayro Bustamante, 2015, 91 min. — France, Guatemala. Maria, a 17 year old Maya girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation in […]