Spanish, Italian & Portuguese

Over the last 3 years, Alessandro Questa (PhD candidate, Anthropology and Mellon Indigenous Arts Fellow) has served as a witness and mediator between Masewal people and Mexican federal authorities during the process of restoration, protection, and reevaluation of certain local Indigenous documents from the 17th century. His experience navigating between different regimes of value and systems of knowledge led him to ask "what is a document and what can it do?"

Please join us on Tuesday, May 30, from 3-5 pm in the North Oval Room of the Rotunda. Melissa June Frost will defend her dissertation, "Herbs that Madden, Herbs that Cure: A History of Hallucinogenic Plant Use in Colonial Mexico."

All PhD defenses are open to the public.

Come support your colleague!

Please join us on Wednesday, May 10, from 5-7 pm in Brooks Hall Commons (Anthropology Dept., 1st floor) to celebrate the end of the academic year and the launch of DH@UVa.

Meet colleagues in other fields, and enjoy a respite from grading and other end-of-semester stresses. Dinner, tea, beer, and wine will be provided by Pearl Island Catering.

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the Library.

Please join us on Friday, May 5, at 2 pm in Hotel A (Center for Global Inquiry & Innovation) for a public lecture by David Singerman, Americas Center/Centro de las Américas, Visiting Scholar.

The talk, '"En la producción azucarera todo está metrificado': Sugar, Knowledge, and The History of Capitalism,” will be followed by a reception.

Please join us on Thursday, May 4, from 2:30-4 pm in Wilson 142 for a roundtable discussion with Professor Davide Domenici (Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà/Department of History, Culture, and Civilization, University of Bologna).

As part of Professor Domenici's week-long visit to UVa, sponsored by the Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures, we'll discuss "Material Indians: Early Modern Circulation of Ethnographica and the Construction of the Indies as a Global Category."