After the wars of conquest in Mesoamerica during the sixteenth century, a complex process of reorganization of the Indigenous population started, with social, political, and economic implications. The Indigenous nobility, some of whom fought alongside the Spaniards, quickly adapted to the new political regime through various legal strategies to keep their privileges as principal lords. One of these involved elaborating manuscripts and visual stories similar to the European legal documents known as probanzas de méritos.

Join the Spanish and Portuguese Department for a weekly Spanish language meet-up!

Participants will have the opportunity to engage in Spanish conversation with other individuals. Cookies and coffee will also be provided for those who attend!

Spring 2024 Wednesday meetings:

January 17 | January 24 | January 31

February 7 | February 14 | February 21 | February 28

March 6 | March 13 | March 20

April 3 | April 10 | April 17 | April 24

May 1 

Join us for the 69th annual SALALM Conference!  

This international meeting gathers librarians, archivists, scholars, students, book/information professionals, and book dealers interested in collecting, preserving, and providing access to academic library resources in all formats relevant to Latin America, the Caribbean, Iberia, and their diasporic communities.  

The Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies invites you to join us for a reception at LASA2024 Bogotá to celebrate a century of research and teaching in the field of Latin American Studies at Tulane University.