Events

Stone Center Events

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s extraordinary political career spans five decades. Lula has become one of the most fascinating political operators of our young century. He unsuccessfully ran for the presidency of Brazil in 1989, 1994, and 1988 before…
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
Environmental Poetry in the Americas/Poesía ambiebtal en las Américas brings together poets Nicole Cecilia Delgado (Puerto Rico) and Eliana Hernández Pachón (Colombia) for a Spanish-language reading and conversation with two key Latin American…
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…
This interdisciplinary symposium brings scholars from around the world to discuss the shared histories and futures of the Andes and Amazon regions of South America. The meeting will feature specialists in lowland and highland tropical ecologies,…
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…