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:
The talk centers on the Chamorro Barrios Family Papers housed at the Doris Stone Latin American Library and Research Center.
Through personal letters, newspaper editorials, prison writings, and rare archival documents, Professor Chamorro will discuss the struggles and political engagement of multiple generations of his family, whose lives became inseparable from Nicaragua’s most defining historical moments.
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, and students dedicated to the study of Classical and Modern variants of the Nahuatl language, as well as pre-Contact, colonial, and contemporary Nahua culture.
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, and students dedicated to the study of Classical and Modern variants of the Nahuatl language, as well as pre-Contact, colonial, and contemporary Nahua culture.
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, and students dedicated to the study of Classical and Modern variants of the Nahuatl language, as well as pre-Contact, colonial, and contemporary Nahua culture.
Conference Program
THURSDAY, APRIL 16
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 panel discussion with human rights activists and lawyers from Argentina and the U.S will follow the film screening.
The film screening will take place at 1 pm on Saturday, April 18, at The Broad Theater (636 N Broad St.). Admission is free.
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 Latin America and the African diaspora. She completed her PhD in Latin American Studies from Tulane University, where she was trained as an anthropologist and Latin Americanist.
Visit the Latin American Resource Center at Family Day at the New Orleans Book Festival! We will be featuring award-winning bilingual YA and children’s books and hosting a book raffle! Family Day includes a diverse selection of local and national authors who will do live readings and sign books throughout the day. Children will find something that appeals to all reading levels, backgrounds, and reading interests.
