The Humanities Council will host its 15th Annual Humanities Colloquium on Thursday, September 23, at 4:30 pm.

Join Jerry Zee (Anthropology) and Franz Prichard (East Asian Studies) for a conversation about the diverse ways scholars study the impact of urbanization. From the dust in the air, to the imageries captured by photographers, filmmakers, and writers, urban development shapes the material world, and culture, around us.

There has an explosion of research on the historical archaeology of Latin America over the past twenty years, particularly focused upon the continuities and transformations of the early colonial period.  Yet much of this work has remained siloed deep within specific sub-disciplinary forums.