A public discussion on the new English translation of the classic study Death in Mesoamerica by celebrated Mexican archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. Speakers include leading Mexican scholars including Leonardo López Luján, Ximena Chávez Balderas, Patricia Ledesma Bouchan, and historian Kris Lane.

Speakers

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Profesor Emeritus at Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH).  

Leonardo López Luján, Director of Templo Mayor and a Senior Research Professor at Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH). 

Ximena Chávez Balderas, Expert in Quintana Roo’s Attorney General’s Office Department of Forensic Anthropology and Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in 2016–17. 

Patricia Ledesma Bouchan, Director of Museo del Templo Mayor and Professor at Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH). 

Kris Lane, France Vinton Scholes Chair of Colonial Latin American History and William Arceneaux Professor in Latin American History at Tulane University 

Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School and member of the Mexico Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). 

Presented in collaboration with the Moses Mesoamerican Archive, Harvard Divinity School, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.