Selected Public Speaking Engagements

Main Topics

Current Politics in Peru
"What the Devil Is Happening in Peru? Neoliberalism and the Plebeian Republic of Pedro Castillo." New York City, March 23rd, 2022: New York University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Current Politics in Latin America (20th- and 21st- centuries)
1) "Instability in Latin America: From the ‘Pink Tide’ to the ‘Civil Coup d'État’." Prescott, Arizona, April 25th, 2018: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
2) "Human Rights in Latin America." Boise, Idaho, June 11, 2008: Idaho Council of Human Rights.
 

Peruvian Independence
 

1) "Balance del bicentenario de Puno" - Evento: "El Bicentenario en Puno",
Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, Puno, August 9, 2024 (find the online version here:
https://www.casadelcorregidor.pe/colaboraciones/_biblio_Dominguez.php
2) "Los quince años de las "Guerras de Independencia" en el Altiplano (1809-1824)"; Cátedra al Bicentenario, Municipalidad Provincial de Puno, Puno, miércoles 14 de julio, 2021

Inka Ethnohistory (16th century)
1) "Farewell to the “panacas”? Royal ‘ayllus’, kinship and language(s) among the Inkas." Keynote speaker, 38th Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory. Brown University, Providence, R.I. November 2nd, 2019.
2) "¿Cómo se escribió la primera “Historia de los Incas” en el siglo XVI?" [ How was the first “History of the Incas” written in the sixteenth century? ] Tempe, Arizona, February 7, 2014: School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University.

Spanish American Colonial Literature (16th- and 17th-centuries)
1) "Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century (Andean) Chronicles." New York City, March 24th, 2022: Fordham University, Department of History.
2) "Comunicación intercultural en contextos de invasión militar y colonización inicial: Los "lenguas" o intérpretes en los Andes (siglo XVI)." [ Inter-cultural communication in a context of military invasion and initial colonization: the "lenguas" or translators in the Andes, sixteenth century ] Lima, Peru, November 17, 2011: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.

Andean National History - Peru and Bolivia
(19th- and 20th centuries)
1) "Los aimaras de Perú y Bolivia: 500 años de historia de exclusiones." [ The Aimaras of Peru and Bolivia: 500 years of a History of Exclusions ] Stony Brook, N.Y., March 31st, 2022: Stony Brook University, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures.
2) "Confederación Perú-Boliviana: 180 años de su disolución (1839-2019)." [ The Peru-Bolivian Confederation: 180 years of its dissolution ] Cuzco, Perú, July 18th, 2019: Dirección Desconcentrada de Cultura, Universidad Nacional Diego Quispe Tito.

Andean Colonial History - Peru and Bolivia
(16th- to 18th- centuries)
1) "El motín de mestizos en La Paz de 1661." [ The ‘mestizo’ riot in La Paz of 1661 ] La Paz, Bolivia, June 26th, 2018: Universidad Mayor de San Andrés.
2) "¿Cómo llegaron los hermanos Salcedo al Convento de San Francisco del Cusco?" [ How did the Salcedo brothers ended in Cuzco’s Franciscan Convent? ] Cuzco, Peru, August 16th, 2017: Convento de San Francisco.
3) "Circuitos comerciales y mineros durante los siglos XVI y XVII en Puno." [ Commercial and mining circuits in Puno during the 16th and 17th centuries ] Arequipa, Peru, September 17th, 2015: "Seminario Historia Económica de la Macro Región Sur", Universidad San Pablo.
4) "A “Mestizo Threat” in the Colonial Andes? Elite Anxieties and Social Realities during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." Champaign, Illinois, November 2, 2010: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).

Historical Cartography (16th- to 19th- centuries)
"Spatial Knowledge as Tool of Governance: The Cartographic Project of Bishop Martinez de Compañon in 18th Century Peru." Champaign, Illinois, February 19th, 2015: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).