IMS Events and Announcements

The Institute for Mesoamerican Studies regularly hosts guest lectures related to interests of the university and local community.

September 28: Emiliana Cruz (University of Mass, Amherst) flyer, The Oaxaca Workshop on Tone for Speaker-Linguists of Mesoamerican Languages: A New Model for Linguistic Recruitment and Training.
November 9: Gubidcha Matus (Mexican Solidarity Network), Justice Now! The Indigenous Struggle for Human Rights in Chiapas, Mexico.
December 7: Dr. Jim Aimers (SUNY Geneseo), Maya Collapse Thoeries. 3:30 p.m.
December 11: Timothy J. Smith (Princeton University Fellow), Voting in a Time of Violence: Indifference and Being within the Indigenous Electorate of Guatemala. Note that this talk is on a Tuesday afternoon at 3:00pm in Humanities 354.

February 8: Honduran and Haitian Garment Workers Speak Out Against Sweatshop Conditions. 3pm, Humanities 354.
April 26: Charles Golden (Brandeis University), Matters of Trust: The Growth and Collapse of Classic Maya Dynastic Polities. 3pm, Humanities 190.

The Department of Anthropology, University at Albany also hosts two other lecture series:
NutMeg: The Northeast Mesoamerican Epigrapy Group (contact John Justeson at
Justeson@gmail.com for information, http://www.albany.edu/ims/imsevents.html)
Archaeology Institute of America Lecture Series (contact Stuart Swiny at swiny@albany.edu
for more information).
In addition, the Anthropology Department also hosts the Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities, which sponsors events and activities throughout the year (http://www.albany.edu/cemhd/).