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Andean Cultural Heritage & Fragmented Histories: Research and Collaboration in Peru
February 20, 2026 / 2:00–3:30 PM
Krannert Art Museum, Lower Level Auditorium (KAM 62) & via Zoom
Free & Open to the Public

Join us for a special panel featuring our partners in Peru as they share current research on Andean cultural heritage and discuss ongoing collaborations with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and Krannert Art Museum (KAM). The conversation will highlight the exhibition project Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600 and the transnational partnerships that make this work possible.

Panelists include:

• Carmela Alarcón Ledesma, Co-Director, Huanangue Valley Archaeology Project

• Sofía Chacaltana-Cortéz, Full Professor, Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (Jesuit University)

• Edinson Ernesto Delgado Estela, Director, Museo Hermógenes Mejía Solf (Jaén, Peru)

• Henry Marcello Castillo, Director, Archaeology Museum, National University José Faustino Sánchez Carrión del Perú

This bilingual event (Spanish and English) will be presented in person at Krannert Art Museum (Lower Level Auditorium, KAM 62) and streamed via Zoom.

Register to receive the Zoom link.

Co-presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

The Fragmented Histories exhibition was made possible with support from the University of Illinois Presidential Initiative to Celebrate the Arts and Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities (Democracy demands wisdom), the Helen Frankenthaler Climate Initiative of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Rosann Gelvin Noel Krannert Art Museum Fund, and the M.H. Carragher Memorial Fund. Krannert Art Museum also acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.