Saturday, May 24, 8:00 to 9:45am
Urban Space, Spectacle and Race I. Sponsor: Colonial Section. Session Participants: Session Organizer: Mónica Díaz (Georgia State University). Chair: Mónica Díaz (Georgia State University).
- “Passing under the Triumphal Arch,” Rolena Adorno (Yale University)
- “‘To Correct these Detestable Luxuries’: Funerary Rites and the Limits of Selfhood in Late-Colonial Lima, Peru,” Tamara J Walker (University of Pennsylvania)
- “After the Execution: Mapping African Experience of Colonial Mexico City,” Savannah L Esquivel (University of Chicago)
- “Unruly Mexicans and Spaniards in the ‘Pearl of the Orient’: Convict Labor, Bourbon Urban Reforms, and Racial Discourse in Late Eighteenth-Century Manila,” Eva M Mehl (University of North Carolina/Wilmington)
Abstract: This interdisciplinary session will look at cities and their inhabitants in colonial Latin America. Of particular interest is the relationship between the planning and building of cities in the colonial space, the performance of festivals and spectacles, and the presence of a multi-ethnic and multi-racial society.
Textual Geographies of Colonial Latin America. Sponsor: Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizer: Clayton L McCarl (University of North Florida). Chair: Rubén A Sánchez-Godoy (Southern Methodist University)
- “Contested Cartographies: (Re)imagining the Frontiers and the Centers of the New World,” Rocio Quispe-Agnoli (Michigan State University)
- “Christopher Columbus as Heroic Cosmographer in Luis Zapata’s Carlo famoso,” Jason McCloskey (Bucknell University)
- “At the Calendric Crossroads: The Textual Production of Cuzco in the Inca Garcilaso and Bernabé Cobo,” Sara Castro-Klaren (Johns Hopkins University)
- “Los espacios incógnitos del Epítome de Antonio de León Pinelo,” Clayton L McCarl (University of North Florida)
Abstract: In recent years, scholars have considered maps of the colonial world not merely as attempts to represent physical space but as complex cultural discourses and ideological projections. In this panel, we examine not visual but rather geographies, analyzing ways that authors employ the linguistic recreation of space to advance or undermine colonial projects. Rocío Quispe-Agnoli of Michigan State University contrasts the use of cartographic writing as a method of colonization by Spanish authors with an embrace of geography to fashion decolonizing discourses by indigenous writers. Studying the epic poem Carlo famoso (1566) of Spanish author Luis Zapata, Jason McCloskey of Bucknell University analyzes how a poetic description of the geography of the West Indies is used to position Colombus as a hero in the classical mold. Sara Castro-Klarén of Johns Hopkins University examines the textual construction of Cuzco in the writings of Inca Garcilaso and the Friar Bernabé Cobo, taking into account notions of imperial space in the classical and Andean worlds. Lastly, Clayton McCarl of the University of North Florida reads the Epítome de la biblioteca oriental y occidental, náutica y geografica (1629) of Antonio de León Pinelo as a frustrated imperial project that reveals the precarious nature of geographical knowledge in the seventeenth-century Hispanic world.
Memorias, voces y discursos indígeno-coloniales. Lecturas interdisciplinarias de la identidad. Sponsor: Afro-Latin and Indigenous Peoples. Session Organizers: Ana Maria Presta (Universidad de Buenos Aires/PROHAL) and Gladys M Ilarregui (University of Delaware). Discussant: Ana Maria Presta (Universidad de Buenos Aires/PROHAL)
- “Narrating Collective Memory in Sixteenth-Century New Spanish Chronicles,” Heather J Allen (University of Mississippi)
- “La memoria como resistencia a la colonialidad: Popol Wuj,” Carlos M López (Marshall University)
- “Memorias reconfiguradas en discursos homogeneizados. Probanzas, genealogía y legitimidad cacicales en los Andes meridionales, Siglos XVI-XVII,” Ana Maria Presta (Universidad de Buenos Aires/PROHAL)
- “Memoria en la sangre y en la tierra. Liderazgo, sucesión y acceso a la tierra en el sur andino, (Pacajes y Omasuyos, 1570-1650),” Ariel J Morrone (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
- “Andean Constructions of Identity: The contradictory voices of native escribanos,” Alcira Dueñas (Ohio State University)
Abstract: El estilo de relaciones establecidas después del asentamiento europeo en las Américas produce un nuevo mapa social en donde los pueblos indígenas deben conformar su identidad dentro de nuevos modelos administrativos y culturales. La discursividad para representar, reclamar y corregir la visión del nativo se abre como un océano impresionante a lo largo y lo ancho de los siglos XVI y XVII. El registro de esas memorias en pugna invita a nuevas lecturas y reflexiones, una vez que se ha hecho patente el modelo de “extracción-violencia” que domina la primera fase de esos encuentros. ¿Cómo recuperar, reclamar y subrayar la memoria indígena y su interioridad dentro del territorio ahora ocupado por un poder hegemónico? Este panel busca responder a estos interrogantes enfocándose en el mundo andino y el mundo mesoamericano posconquista indagando en probanzas, prácticas de colectivos étnicos, presentaciones cacicales, el oficio de escribano indígena y en el contenido de una crónica del siglo XVII. Se trata aquí de contribuir desde el pasado a una reflexión profundamente unida a los factores políticos y sociales del presente indígena que, desde la colonia, pugna por recuperar y ver resurgir su epistemología en ruinas, al tiempo de manifestarse en su profundo reclamo de las políticas agrarias y educativas en Latinoamérica.
Of Monsters, Warriors and Visions—Print Culture and the Press, 1780s-1930s. Sponsor: History and Historiographies/Historical Processes. Chair: Carlos F Tapia (Global Language Translation, Inc).
- “Prensa política y libertad de expresión en la provincia de Córdoba –Argentina- a finales de la década de 1870: normas, principios y prácticas,” Laura Cucchi (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
- “El papel de la prensa en la demonización del Dr. Francia,” Stéphane Bédère (Aquinas College)
- “‘The Patria as the Nuptial Bed’: Print Culture and the Imagined Ranchero as Warrior and Gendered Patriot of Mexico, 1862-1935,” Eugene M Moreno (Columbia Basin College)
- “Tyranny, monsters and barbarians,” Marcelo Somarriva (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez)
- “Visões e projetos de “Brasil”: soberania e cidadania nos impressos dos séculos XVIII e XIX,” Alice S Guimarães (NETSAL-UERJ).
Saturday, May 24, 10:00 to 11:45am
Urban Space, Spectacle and Race II. Sponsor: Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizer: Mónica Díaz (Georgia State University). Chair: Mónica Díaz (Georgia State University).
- “A Space at the Margins: Lima’s Cercado and the Reinscription of Indigenous Power,” Karen B Graubart (University of Notre Dame)
- “Corporal Spectacle as Religious Agency: Women’s Public Displays in Colonial Lima,” Stacey Schlau (West Chester University)
- “Black Criollos: Race, Place, and Colonial Belonging in Mid Nineteenth-Century Havana,” Guadalupe Garcia (Tulane University)
- “Las ciudades indígenas a través del discurso etnográfico colonial. Desposesión, salvajismo y asimilación cultural,” David M Solodkow (Universidad de los Andes)
Saturday, May 24, 12:00 to 1:45pm
Visuality and Space: Texts and Maps in the Geographical Imagination. Sponsor: History and Historiographies/Historical Processes. Session Organizer: Marta Josefina Sierra (Kenyon College)
- “Como Mapear una nueva República: George Thompson, José Cecilio del Valle y la Federación de Centro-América,” Jordana Dym (Skidmore College)
- “Scientific Vision: Maps, Photographs and Other Visual Devices in the Diplomatic Dispute over the Andes as a Natural Border (1900),” Carla Lois
- “Geographical Imaginations: Mapping the margins in Adriana Varejão,” Marta Josefina Sierra (Kenyon College)
- “Visualizing the underground in late colonial Latin America,” Heidi V Scott (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Abstract: In recent years, visual materials gained importance as sources for conducting research in the humanities, and have replaced approaches exclusively centered on texts. An important debate around the methodological role of images in the social sciences also developed in recent years. In Cultural Studies, this interest on visuality produced a “visual turn” in different areas of knowledge. This panel examines different disciplinary approaches to the complex relationship between visuality and space and geographical and imagination. The presentations offer examples from history, geography, literature and the arts as to how visual materials define space and how visuality can be defined from different disciplines. In particular, it centers on maps and mapping processes as ways of representing cultural negotiations.
Slavery and Race in the “Black” Atlantic, 1780-1900. Sponsor: History and Historiographies/Historical Processes. Chair: Carlos F Tapia (Global Language Translation, Inc).
- “Acting Boçal: Performance, Language, and Freedom in the Illegal Brazilian Slave Trade (19th c.),” Yuko Miki (Washington University in St. Louis)
- “Emiliano Mundurucu, race and politics in 19th century Pernambuco,” Vitor Izecksohn (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
- “Living beyond one’s means. Sugar planters, ‘black’ capitals and Atlantic traders: Havana, 1780-1820,” Jesus Bohorquez Barrera
- “Pedro Salgado Filho: estratégias e lutas pela liberdade no Pós- Emancipação,” Joana D Oliveira
- “Slavery and Abolition in a Transnational Perspective: Brazil and United States,” Clícea Maria A Miranda
Saturday, May 24, 2:00 to 3:45pm
Jesuit Globalization I: Foundations. Sponsor: Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizer: Anna H More (University of California/Los Angeles). Chair: Kristin L Huffine (Northern Illinois University).
- “The Foundation of Jesuit Mission Science: New World Knowledge and Strategies for Indigenous Cultural Reform in the Writings of José de Acosta,” Kristin L Huffine (Northern Illinois University)
- “Trade, Communication and Evangelization in Jose de Acosta and Francisco de Vitoria,” Orlando Nelson Bentancor Trebino (Barnard College)
- “Two modalities of colonial labor: José de Acosta and Alonso de Sandoval,” Anna H More (University of California/Los Angeles)
- “Un momento decisivo dentro del debate esclavista colonial: Diego de Avendaño y sus reflexiones sobre la esclavitud,” Rubén A Sánchez-Godoy (Southern Methodist University)
Abstract: Combining frontier missions and urban education, faith and finance, the Jesuits have long been seen as a crucial institution for understanding Latin American colonization. Recently more attention has been paid to the global reach of the Society of Jesus from its inception through the eighteenth century. As the early Jesuit Jerome Nadal wrote, “the world is our home.” More could be done, however, to link these two facets of Jesuit studies: how did the Society of Jesus, in its global extension, mimic, compete, or overlap with Iberian states? What forms of governance, administration, subjectification did the order practice and how were these practices related to those of other mendicant orders? How did Jesuits contribute to the ideological armature of Iberian empires in tensions around Christian universalism and racial stratification? Which contemporary theoretical approaches could benefit from studying the deep Jesuit influence in Latin America? And finally, how might globalization itself be retheorized through a reflection on the relationship between knowledge, institutions and networks brought together in Jesuit global practices?
Saturday, May 24, 4:00 to 5:45pm
Jesuit Globalization II: Practices and Policies. Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizer: Anna H More (University of California/Los Angeles). Chair: Orlando Nelson Bentancor Trebino (Barnard College).
- “A Controlled Speech: José de Acosta, Mestizos, and Language Policy in Colonial Peru,” Andrés Ignacio Prieto (University of Colorado/Boulder)
- “Early Modern Magic and the Company of Jesus: The Role of Magic in the Development of Imperial Science,” Jessica Rutherford (Ohio State University)
- “Ranking Barbarians: Considering the Guarani Reductions in Light of the Mission to Japan,” Ann L Cole (University of Arkansas-Fayetteville).
A Critique of Decolonial Reason: Readings and Interrogations. Sponsor: Culture, Power and Political Subjectivities. Session Organizer: Abraham Acosta (University of Arizona). Chair: Abraham Acosta (University of Arizona). Discussant: Samuel A Steinberg (University of Southern California).
- “Theoretical Constructs: Indigenous Populations and the Colonial Question,” Ivonne Del Valle (University of California/Berkeley)
- “Kusch and Truth,” Charles D Hatfield (University of Texas at Dallas)
- “Ontologies of the Present and the Decolonial Episteme, On Castro Gómez’s Foucault and Consequences,” Jaime Rodríguez-Matos (University of Michigan)
- “The Popular Question,” Karen Benezra (Cornell University)
- “Post-colonial/decolonial thought: a paradigm?” Sergio R Villalobos-Ruminott (University of Arkansas)
Abstract: Decolonial theory emerged as a prominent analytic approach for the study of Latin America, both past and present, and heralded as the philosophical paradigm for epistemological emancipation of formerly colonized cultures from Western modes of knowledge and power. Given, however, its rise in popularity at academic institutions worldwide, as yet no real study or investigation has been assembled that places Decoloniality’s theoretical framework and central claims under close, rigorous, scrutiny. Through readings and analyses of some of its most seminal texts, this panel reflects upon and offers critical insight into Decolonial thought’s promise as an intellectually and politically revolutionary method.
Saturday, May 24, 6:00 to 7:45pm
Paradigm Shift: New Theories and Methodologies in the Study of Colonial Latin America. Sponsor: Colonial Section. Session Organizers: Magali M Carrera (University of Massachusetts), Raul Marrero-Fente (University of Minnesota). Chair: Raul Marrero-Fente (University of Minnesota).
- “Una metáfora aristotélica para un dios desconocido: Pachacamac en el Inca Garcilaso,” Esperanza López Parada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- “Diffusion and Circulation of Images: a Theoretical Critique of the Models of Cultural Contact in the Art of the New Spain in the Sixteenth Century,” José Luis Pérez Flores (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí), Sergio A González Varela (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí)
- “Colonial Archipelagoes: Reimagining Colonial Caribbean Studies,” Yolanda M Martínez-San Miguel (The State University of New Jersey)
- “Early Modern Globalism and Colonial Latin American Studies,” Raul Marrero-Fente (University of Minnesota)
Abstract: A quick review of the curricula of undergraduate and graduate degrees in the various disciplinary fields of Latin American Studies reveals that ‘theory and methods’ courses are standard requirements. Likewise, scholarly presentations at conferences often begin with a brief overview of the disciplinary and cross-disciplinary theoretical perspectives that guide the researcher’s inquiry within a content area. This panel aims to provoke an interdisciplinary exchange on the diverse theoretical paradigms that operate across colonial Latin American Studies. The papers included focus on new theories and methodologies and reflect on the contemporary challenges and impact of theory on colonial studies.
Cultura jurídica y desarrollo institucional: entre el orden colonial y las nuevas repúblicas. América Latina, siglos XVIII-XIX. Sponsor: Law, Jurisprudence and Society. Session Organizer: Eduardo A Zimmermann (Universidad de San Andrés). Chair: Eduardo A Zimmermann (Universidad de San Andrés). Discussant: Brian P Owensby (University of Virginia).
- “El concepto de autonomía provincial en el desarrollo constitucional argentino del siglo diecinueve,” Alejandro Agüero (Conicet-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
- “El derecho de petición y el sistema representativo mexicano,” Beatriz Rojas (Instituto Mora)
- “La especialidad colonial: leyes, hombres e instituciones para una ‘administración complicada’ (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Filipinas, 1850-1898),” Julia Solla (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
- “Consulta y opinión. La construcción del consentimiento, Colombia 1826,” Teresa Calderón (Universidad del Externado)
- “La profesión legal en la Lima del temprano siglo XVIII, 1700-1730,” Renzo R Honores (High Point University)
Abstract: Si bien durante mucho tiempo han transitado por caminos separados, la historia jurídica y la historia social relacionada con las prácticas políticas e institucionales han comenzado a experimentar los beneficios de la convergencia de sus respectivos enfoques. La noción de cultura jurídica proporciona un apropiado nexo conceptual para aunar investigaciones que desde una y otra disciplina han abordado diversos problemas relacionados con las estructuras políticas, el orden territorial, la dinámica judicial, etc. Así, por ejemplo, han sido exploradas fructíferamente temas como la autonomía de las ciudades coloniales, la reubicación de la soberanía y la justicia en la crisis atlántica, la configuración de los mecanismos procesales y de representación. También desde esa perspectiva se ha podido analizar con mayor profundidad el impacto de los posteriores procesos de construcción estatal y codificación del derecho de fines del siglo XIX y primeras décadas del XX. Con estas perspectivas, el objetivo de esta mesa es proporcionar un punto de encuentro para historiadores sociales e historiadores del derecho, donde se puedan intercambiar herramientas de análisis y experiencias de investigación en trabajos que aborden temas vinculados a la cultura jurídica como elemento estructurador tanto de prácticas sociales como de la praxis de gobierno y justicia, en el contexto de transición hacia la formación de los nuevos órdenes republicanos.
Politics, Ethnography and the Paradoxes of Empire. Sponsor: History and Historiographies/Historical Processes. Session Organizer: Paula Alonso (George Washington University).
- “Benjamin Constant, a história e a política brasileira,” Silvana M Barbosa (Federal University of Juiz de Fora)
- “Comparative Perspectives on Spanish Colonialism in Latin America and the Philippines,” Christine Beaule (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
- “Early Modern Ethnography as Critical Discourse: Utopian Paradox in Motolinía’s Memoriales (1527-1541),” Jaime Marroquín Arredondo (George Washington University)
- “Indigenous Martyrs in the Early Modern Spanish World,” Jason C Dyck (Trent University Oshawa)
