Sponsored by The Book Club of California Across North American and European imaginaries, the Amazon River Basin has figured as both a region rich in “natural resources” ready for the taking, and, consequently, a geography of lands and peoples in need of saving. Both Amazonian exploration and salvation have been […]
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club Join ASU Professor Seonaid Valiant on how a Gilded Age anthropologist made discoveries about a British aristocrat’s Mixtec Codex. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-zelia-nuttall-early-modern-mexican-pictorial-mss-tickets-719345801657?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
Sponsored by The Ticknor Society March 21 6:00pm EST For our March 21st meeting, all members and friends of The Ticknor Society are invited to join in an online, interactive conversation from “The Collector’s Corner.” Over fifty years ago, while in high school, Tim Weiskel began acquiring, reading and re-reading […]