We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming seminar of the Entangled Histories series, Borders and Sustainability: Human and Natural Resources across Time and Space, taking place on Thursday, 5 November 2026, at 6:00 PM CET.

Our guest speaker, Dr. Scott Doebler, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wyoming, will explore the environmental history of the Maya Forest following the Spanish invasion of the Petén in 1697.

Challenging conventional narratives of colonial conquest, the seminar will examine how Indigenous Maya communities maintained political, cultural, and environmental continuity through their relationships with the tropical forest. Drawing on archival sources in Spanish, English, and Yucatec Maya, the presentation offers a new perspective on Indigenous resilience, colonial borderlands, and the entanglement of human and nonhuman histories.

Event Details

• Date: Thursday, 5 November 2026

• Time: 6:00 PM CET (Central European Time)

• Format: Online

• Participation: Free and open to all

If you are unsure about the starting time in your local time zone, you can use the following time zone converter:

https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

Registration (free):

https://buytickets.at/entangledhistoriesseminarseries/2494521

We would be very grateful if you could share this invitation with colleagues, researchers, postgraduate students, and relevant departmental or institutional mailing lists who might be interested in the event.

You can also explore the full programme of our 2026–2027 seminar series here:

https://sites.google.com/view/entangledhistories/programme