Speakers: José Esparza Chong Cuy, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Storefront for Art and Architecture Ruth Estévez, Co-founder, Executive Director and Curator, LIGA and Senior Curator-at-Large, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Julieta González, Artistic Director, Museo Jumex Sarah Herda, Director, Graham Foundation Michelle Millar Fisher, Curator, Contemporary Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Zoë Ryan, John H. Bryan Chair and...
Speaker: Ieva Jusionyte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies Moderator: Fernando Bizzarro, PhD student, Department of Government; Graduate Student Associate, DRCLAS
In the U.S.-Mexico border region, environmental emergencies – from wildfires to floods to toxic spills –...
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue
Each year, the Peabody celebrates the Day of the Dead with a family event and fiesta and a temporary altar that remains on display for the month of November.
Originating with the Aztecs, the Mexican Day of the Dead is a unique blend of Mesoamerican and Christian rituals. The holiday, which is celebrated on November 1 from 4-8pm, All Saints’ Day, is dedicated to adults;...
Speakers: Oliver J. Curtis, film co-Director and Gabriel Muñoz Moreno, film co-Director Moderators: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Graduate School of Design; Jose Castillo, Graduate School of Design
Speaker: Graham Denyer Willis, Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge Moderator: Diane Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Graduate School of Design
Graham Denyer Willis is University Senior Lecturer in Development and Latin American Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Queens’ College. His first ethnographic monograph, The Killing Consensus: Police, Organised Crime and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil (California UP 2015) emerges from three...
Speaker: Valeria Luiselli, Mexican novelist Moderator: Mayra Rivera Rivera, Harvard Divinity School; Mariano Siskind, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Luiselli will offer a reading of her recent work, which explores the human consequences of immigration policies and, in particular, the experience of migrating from Central America to the United States. She will then be joined in conversation by Mayra Rivera, professor of religion and Latinx studies and chair of the standing Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, and...
