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I’m delighted to share that I will give two talks in two cities, one week apart. On Thursday, November 12th, at 11:45 (UK time), I will present “An Anticolonial Vision from a Defiant Guaraní Woman Who Stood in Solidarity in Colonial Paraguay: Juliana and Her 1541 Criminal Trial” in the session “Indigenous Histories & Cosmologies: Transgressing Global Designs” of the VI International Congress of Indigenous Worlds (VI COIMI Europe), at the World Museum, Liverpool. The congress brings Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, educators, and museum professionals together around Indigenous histories, knowledge, and reparative action. Tried in Asunción only a few years after the city was founded, Juliana lets us hear a Guaraní woman’s resistance and solidarity at the very start of colonial rule. Then, on Tuesday, November 17th, from 17:30 to 19:00 (UK time), I will give a talk titled “The Recovering Hidden Histories project: Digital Methods to unlock the history of slavery in Colonial Paraguay” at the Latin American History Seminar of the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Senate House, London. I will present our project funded by Schmidt Sciences, which uses Handwritten Text Recognition to read colonial Paraguayan manuscripts at scale and recover the names, claims, and life stories of Indigenous, African, and Afro-descendant people who were enslaved or forced to work. I will also discuss what an ethical digital archive could look like, and how to build these histories together with Paraguayan descendant communities. Many thanks to the COIMI organisers and to the IHR seminar convenors for their invitations.