La Cátedra Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, la primera serie de conferencias que lleva el nombre de un ciudadano mexicano en los 400 años de la historia de la Universidad de Harvard, se lanzó hace tres años como parte de una colaboración entre instituciones culturales mexicanas y Harvard.
The Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series, the first lecture series to be named for a Mexican citizen in Harvard University’s 400-year history, was launched three years ago as part of a collaboration between Mexican cultural institutions and Harvard.
History books are filled with accounts of the past, shaped by the perspectives of those who wrote them. A reader’s imagination may conjure events across the miles and millennia based on those accounts, but at best their own life experiences and interests may influence their sense of history. A fuller picture is guided by scholars in classrooms where lessons are shaped by a lifetime devoted to the study. And few historical events are as widely studied—and discussed—as those found in the Bible.... Read more about Where the Present is a Continuation of the Past
The fall 2018 Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture was delivered by Alfredo López Austin, Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Anthropological Research, at Mexico’s National Autonomous University on October 9.
HDS Dean David N. Hempton will be part of a delegation traveling from Harvard to Mexico for the inaugural Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture on October 3. In an effort to renew its commitment to collaborations with Mexico on research and education, Harvard University has established the Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series. This series celebrates the excellence of Mexican archaeology, represented by the figure of Professor Matos Moctezuma. In addition to honoring Mexico’s preeminent archaeologist, the series seeks to convene world-renowned experts on pre-Hispanic Mexico.
Professor Davíd Carrasco explains the spiritual meaning of items recently found in Mexico City, once home to the Aztec empire's holiest shrines, and believed buried there 500 yearrs ago.
