Davíd Carrasco

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.

At the 2017 Diversity and Explorations Program (DivEx), Davíd Carrasco presents his talk, "Gifts from Mexico: Revitalizing Life Through the Day of the Dead Celebration". He describes one of the gifts from Mexico and Mexican's is the idea of convivencia...

Students seeking knowledge go to Harvard. Students seeking wisdom go to Harvard Hall — and there, on every Wednesday afternoon, grapple with some of the most difficult, fundamental, and existential questions facing humankind. What is our purpose? How do...

In 1978 in Mexico City, workers from an electrical company digging in the city center unearthed an enormous carved stone disk depicting an Aztec goddess. In the hands of Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Mexico’s premier archaeologist, that disk unlocked the door...