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 winning in 2002. He served two terms as President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010, ending his second mandate as one of the most popular politicians in the world.

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