Events

Stone Center Events

Belén is a movie based on the true story that sparked an international movement. Belén takes us to Tucumán, a conservative region of Argentina, where Julieta's trial becomes a flashpoint for the ongoing fight for women's reproductive rights. A…
This is a 3-day conference for the Association of Nahuatl Scholars. Presenters will share on a variety of topics and there will be translation workshops. The Association of Nahuatl Scholars is an interdisciplinary organization of academics, teachers…
2026 Holt Lecture on Middle American Ethnohistory Commerce Amid Catastrophe: Consumer Goods and Mesoamerican Lives, c. 1600 Laura Matthew Marquette University
This is a 3-day conference for the Association of Nahuatl Scholars. Presenters will share on a variety of topics and there will be translation workshops. The Association of Nahuatl Scholars is an interdisciplinary organization of academics, teachers…
This is a 3-day conference for the Association of Nahuatl Scholars. Presenters will share on a variety of topics and there will be translation workshops. The Association of Nahuatl Scholars is an interdisciplinary organization of academics, teachers…
Dr. Antonio La Pastina (Texas A&M University) will present a lecture “Remembering Brazil: Television Consumption, Autoethnography, and the Emotional Cost of an Authoritarian Regime.” Abstract:  "For the first 22 years of my life, I…
Vanessa Castañeda is the James B. Duke Assistant Professor of Afro-Latin American Studies at Davidson College, where she teaches and conducts community-engaged research at the intersections of race, gender, food, culture, and political economy in…
Join us for an interview and book signing with Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza, 2024 Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice. Rivera Garza joins a distinguished list of authors, including…
Join us for a lecture by Patrícia Mourão de Andrade, Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Arts of the State University of Campinas, Brazil, and Visiting Scholar in the Film and Media Cultures Program at the Graduate Center at CUNY. This…
This talk revisits the opening chapter of Spirals in the Caribbean (2024), focusing on El Comegente, a recurring figure of racialized monstrosity that emerged in 1791 Santo Domingo amid local Black rebellions and neighboring French Saint-Domingue…