CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

     Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Santa Fe (November, 2005).

     Chaired panels titled: "Spiritual Border Spaces in Colonial Mexico and Oaxaca" and

     "Urban Indians in Colonial Mexico: Examples from the North, Center, and South."

     El Colegio de Michoacan. Conference titled: "Caras y máscaras del México étnico.

La participación indígena en las formaciones del Estado mexicano" (October, 2005).

Presented paper titled: "La genealogia de la memoria social indígena; las construcciones      estratégicas del pasado en    los títulos primordiales de la época colonial."

UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Conference titled: "Rediscovering Columbus" (October, 2004). Presented paper titled: "How 'Native' are the Nahua Accounts of the Spanish Invasion of Mexico Tenochtitlan?"

Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico: La Mesa Redonda de Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico (June, 2004). Presented paper titled: "Algunas observaciones sobre los mercaderes y los mercados en la Mixteca Alta durante la época colonial."

35th Meeting of The Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, UCLA (April, 2004). Chaired and commented on panel titled: "Tensions between the Monarch and his Officials."

Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. (January, 2004). Commented on panel titled: "Some Questions of Race, Sexuality, and Legitimacy Considered by the Inquisition in Colonial Mexico and Guatemala."

Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Riverside (October, 2003).

Presented paper titled: "La Casa de la Cacica of Teposcolula, Oaxaca: A 16th-Century Mixtec Palace, Past and Present." Commented on panel titled: "Indigenous Peoples and the Catholic Church."

Annual Meeeting of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, Los Angeles (November 2002). Presented Paper Titled: "Time and Memory in Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico."

Conference at UCLA on Mesoamerican Ethnohistory in honor of UCLA Professor Emeritus James Lockhart (October, 2002).  Principal organizer of conference. Presented paper titled: "Mixtec Writings from Colonial Oaxaca."

Conference on the Mexican Church at Tulane University, New Orleans (April, 2001).

Presented paper titled: "Ambivalent Responses to Christianity in Early Colonial Oaxaca."

Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston (January, 2001).

Organized panel titled: "Rituals of Gender and Power in Colonial Mexico." Presented paper titled: "Mixtec-Spanish Ceremonies of Palace Possession in Colonial Oaxaca."

Conference at UCLA on Indigenous Languages of Oaxaca, Mexico (May, 2000).

Co-organizer of conference titled "La Voz Indígena de Oaxaca." Presented paper titled: "Mixtec Strategies of Verb Borrowing in Colonial Texts."

Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe (January, 2000).

Presented paper titled: "Long -Distance Mixtec Merchants in Sixteenth-Century Oaxaca."

Symposium on Mesoamerican Writing, University of Leiden, Netherlands (June 1999).

Presented paper titled: "The Colonial Context of Mixtec Images and Texts in the Sixteenth Century."

Center for the Study of Women, UCLA (April, 1998). Presented paper titled: "Reading Women Into History: Native Women Rulers in Colonial Oaxaca, Mexico."

Annual Meeting of American Society for Ethnohistory, Mexico City (November, 1997).

Presented two papers titled: "Images of the Virgin Mary in the Mixtec Kingdom of Heaven," and "Social Relations and Obligations in the Mixtec Community."

Conference on Early Theories of Toleration in Comparative Perspective, Riverside (April, 1997). Presented paper titled: "Discourses of Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Spanish American Writings."

Conference of University of California Latin American Historians, Riverside (February, 1997). Presented paper titled: "The History of Indians in Colonial Latin America: Recent Evolution and Potential."      

Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, San Francisco (November, 1996). Presented paper titled: "Ethnic Identity in Colonial Oaxaca."

Tercer Simposio Internacional de Códices y Documentos Sobre México, Puebla (August, 1996). Presented paper titled: "El Contexto Histórico del Códice Sierra, 1550-1564."

Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Raleigh (June, 1996).

Presented paper titled: "Adultery and Homicide in Colonial Mexico: The Case of the Mixtec Murder Note."

Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco (January, 1994)

Organized panel titled "Primordial Titles as Sources on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico," and presented paper titled "Mixtec and Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Oaxaca: 'Indian' Identity in Multiethnic New Spain."

Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Salt Lake City (October, 1992). Presented paper titled: " Mixtec-language documents from Colonial Oaxaca."

SELECTED LECTURES & TALKS

The History Channel (January, 2005).

"Conquerors: Hernando Cortes."

California History & Geography Project for K-12 Teachers, Workshop on Teaching about Slavery UCLA (March, 2004). “The History of Slavery in Latin America.”

The History Channel (September, 2001).  "The Conquest of Mexico."

The CBS Evening News (March, 2001).  "The Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico."

Ancient Mysteries (August, 1995).  "The Spanish Conquest of the Caribbean and the       Fountain of Youth."

A&E Biography (February, 1995).  "Biography: Don Juan Ponce de León."