The Rutgers Center for Latin American Studies is pleased to invite you to a book launch for After the Broken Spears: The Aztecs in the Wake of Conquest (Oxford University Press, 2025), edited by Camilla Townsend (History, Rutgers) and Josh Anthony (History, Rutgers and McNeil Center, UPenn). This hybrid event will begin with comments from Dr. Anthony Meyer (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU), followed by a Q&A that will include many of the contributing authors, listed below. For those physically in attendance, lunch will be served, and a reception will follow. Participants are encouraged to visit the CLAS event webpage (link here), where they can read sample chapters and learn more about the book before attending the event. Please contact
Date: Friday, February 20th
Time: 1 PM – 2:30 PM
Location: Academic Building West 6051, 15 Seminary Place
Zoom registration link: https://go.rutgers.edu/clas_event
Contributors: Sandra Acocal (Tlaxcala Nahua; Rutgers University), Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil (Mixe, Colegio Mixe), Josh Anthony (Rutgers University and UPenn), Abelardo de la Cruz (Chicontepec Nahua; UNC Chapell Hill), Eduardo de la Cruz (Chicontepec Nahua; IDIEZ), Clio Isaacson (Rutgers University), Travis Jeffres (Boise public historian); Selene Galindo Cumplido (O’dam; Durango film-maker), Tara Malanga (Rutgers University), Baruc Martínez Díaz (Tláhuac Nahua; Colegio de Morelos), Celso Mendoza (University of Illinois Chicago), Barbara E. Mundy (Tulane University), Justyna Olko (University of Warsaw), Peter Bjorndahl Sorensen (Hong Kong Baptist University), and Camilla Townsend (Rutgers University)