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  • Revitalización de las lenguas indígenas como un proyecto comunitario y no desde el Estado, ponentes: Victorino Torres Nava (Nahua), Analú López (Huachichil/Xi’iui), Northeastern Illinois University (2023). Recursos compartidos.
  • Mangyan Scripts, Literary Heritage, and Collections, The Library of Congress (2023). On September 20th, 2023, the Asian Division of the Library of Congress hosted a virtual panel discussion on Mangyan scripts, literary heritage, and collections. The panel featured speakers from the Mangyan Heritage Center, Inc., the Newberry Library, the Library of Congress, and a curatorial affiliate at the Yale Peabody Museum. Presenters discussed Mangyan writing, literary forms, and also Mangyan holdings at their institutions. Here is a Library of Congress blogpost related to the event along with many resources we all discussed. Note: our portion starts at the 47:00 minute mark.
  • Keynote presentation – Coloquio InternacionalEspacios sagrados. Umbrales y fronteras,” Conferencia magistral, Oaxaca Mexico (2023)
  • Roundtable – The Americas: Indigenous Knowledge and the Book – Hidden Stories Symposium, Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (2022). This video includes a roundtable discussion with David Fernández (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library), Analú María López (Newberry Library), and Dominique Polanco (Virginia Tech), with moderator Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Institute for Advanced Study). The session focuses on a single manuscript from the Hidden Stories exhibition— an 18th-c. baptismal register from Mexico City (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto) which records the names and baptism dates of Indigenous children in the parish of San Sebastian. The roundtable explores the history of this complex object, which is shaped by Christian colonial efforts to subjugate native peoples and yet still holds stories of Indigenous lives and living traditions. The roundtable is part of the virtual symposium, Hidden Stories: Global History, Local Networks (24-25 February 2022), which celebrates the exhibition Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, featuring books, scrolls, manuscript paintings, textiles, and objects spanning a 1,000-year history drawn from collections across southern Ontario, Canada. The symposium examines the global and local aspects of the exhibition, bringing together local (Toronto) and international scholars of the book and the Silk Roads to explore how books were made and used along the vast network of trade routes spanning Asia, Europe, and Africa. Roundtable conversations explore how these objects were collected, displayed, and imagined over time and highlight the ground-breaking collaborative work that brought these books and objects to life in the exhibition. Each session explores a Silk Roads cultural tradition and related Hidden Stories objects through presentations by roundtable panelists and an open discussion period with the virtual audience.
  • 2nd Wed Lecture: Indigenous Plants and Resources with Analú Maria Lopez, Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance  (2020)