Friday, May 23, 8:00 to 9:45am

Women’s Stories. Sponsor: Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizer: Pablo Javier Ansolabehere (Universidad de San Andrés)

1. “Doña Manuela Tupac Amaru: Visual and Textual Fabrication of Inca Nobility in Late Colonial Peru,” Sara V Guengerich (Texas Tech University)
2. “El mal histérico que llaman latido: la divulgación médica y la idea de un orden social en la Nueva España del XVIII,” Sofia Calzada-Orihuela (University of Maryland/College Park)
3. “Las delicias de la hacienda: lo femenino opresor en Luz y sombra de Ana Roqué de Duprey,” Juan C López (University of Texas/Austin)
4. “Re-writing the foundational fiction: Acosta de Samper’s Una holandesa en América,” Kristen Meylor (University of Pennsylvania)

Friday, May 23, 10:00 to 11:45am

Tlaxcalan Colonial Spaces: Economics, Social Class, and Textuality. Sponsor: History and Historiographies/Historical Processes. Session Organizer: Juan Jose Daneri (East Carolina University). Chair: Kelly S McDonough (University of Texas at Austin). Discussant: Jeanne L Gillespie (University of Southern Mississippi)

1. “‘The Passing unto All Humankind’: Columbus, Isis and the Conquest of Tenochtitlan in Descripción de la ciudad y provincia de Tlaxcala,” Jannette Amaral-Rodríguez (Columbia University)
2. “Financial Consolidation and Socio-Political Attainment: The Muñoz Camargo Family of Tlaxcala,” Juan Jose Daneri (East Carolina University)
3. “Where is the Love? Nahua Narrations of Socio-Political Change in Seventeenth-Century Tlaxcala,” Kelly S McDonough (University of Texas at Austin)
4. “Escribanos, tradición escritural y negociación política. Los Anales tlaxcaltecas, s. XVI – XVII,” Lidia E Gómez García (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla)

Abstract: The purpose of this panel is to revisit and expand the relevance of Tlaxcalan cultural products in the late 16th and 17th centuries. The panel explores issues of coloniality as related to three spaces (financial, socio-ethnic, textual) in three different but significantly and chronologically adjacent periods (height of ‘Indian’ cabildo rule, decline of hegemony of local nobility, social disorder and institutional disruption). The presentations examine coloniality as a local as well as a regional phenomenon, and utilize a variety of primary sources that have not been fully incorporated into critical studies, such as European mythographic manuals, archival documentation, and chronicles in Nahuatl.

Friday, May 23, 12:00 to 1:45pm

(Re)Envisioning Colonial America: Aesthetic Strategies for New Political Realities. Sponsor: Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizer: Alberto Villate Isaza (St. Olaf College). Chair: Jonathan P O’Conner (St. Olaf College)

1. “Representations of Liberal Ideology in Felipe Pérez’s ‘Huayna Capac’ and ‘Atahuallpa’”, Alberto Villate Isaza (St. Olaf College)
2. “Ignacio Merino and the Pictorial Reconfiguration of ‘Lima por dentro y fuera’,” Dexter J Hough-Snee (University of California/Berkeley)
3. “Rewriting the Conquest: The Female Protagonists of Matilde Asensi’s ‘Tierra firme’ and Isabel Allende’s ‘Inés del alma mía’,” Jonathan P O’Conner (St. Olaf College)

Abstract: Through the analysis of the literary and the pictorial, this panel explores the way in which artists appropriate and re-characterize the colonial past of Latin America in order to respond to their political present. The works addressed by this panel use a variety of strategies to comment on countries’ political instability or to reconcile a problematic past with modern democratic ideals. This panel discusses the ideological motivations behind the different strategies used by the authors and artists to reflect on the past, and considers their important role in Latin America’s cultural production and their relation to changing political realities.

Friday, May 23, 2:00 to 3:45pm

Remembering the Archive: Transhistorical Approaches to Archival Narratives in Latin America. Sponsor: Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizer: Germán Campos-Muñoz (Young Harris College). Chair: Jose J Alvarez (South Dakota State University). Discussant: Anna H More (University of California/Los Angeles).

1. “Breaking Records: The Huarochirí Manuscript as Synchronic Archive,” Caroline R Egan (Stanford University)
2. “At the Constellation’s Center: The Archival Presence and Absence of Gregório de Matos,” Micah Donohue (Pennsylvania State University)
3. “Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo and the Elasticity of the Archive,” Germán Campos-Muñoz (Young Harris College)
4. “Diagnosis and Detection. The Mechanics of the Archive in Eduardo Holmberg’s La bolsa de huesos,” Jose J Alvarez (South Dakota State University)

Abstract: Operating as primary foundation for enactments of cultural memory, archives are also the origin of authority and witnesses of political action. This panel seeks to interrogate different figurations of the archive produced in Latin American literature, from early colonial accounts through 19th-century narratives, with the purpose of comparing different archival models, hypothesizing genealogies of this phenomenon, and interrogating the theoretical apparatuses (i.e. Derrida, Foucault, González Echevarría, etc.) that have recently explored the problem of the archive. Paper topics include: the Huarochirí Manuscript; works by Gregório de Matos, Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo, and Eduardo L. Holmberg.

Friday, May 23, 6:00 to 7:45pm

El poder femenino bajo el control discursivo: ejemplaridad, disciplina y transgresión femenina en la producción textual y visual de la colonia hispanoamericana. Sponsor: Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizers: Ana Maria Diaz-Burgos (Emory University) and Yolopattli I Hernández-Torres (Loyola University Maryland).

1. “Éxtasis visual: Rosa de Lima y la experiencia visionaria en la colonial,” Jimena Castro
2. “Cotidianidades de la decadencia: vicios, crímenes y contrición femenina en la Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí,” Ana Maria Diaz-Burgos (Emory University)
3. “Niños de nadie, niños de Dios: La función de la Casa de Niños Expósitos en la colonia tardía novohispana,” Yolopattli I Hernández-Torres (Loyola University Maryland)

Abstract: De manera similar a la metrópolis, en las colonias españolas, la ejemplaridad y la disciplina se convirtieron en formas de control social preventivas que pretendían bien incentivar los motivos que se tenían para acatar las reglas establecidas por los sistemas legales y religiosos, bien erradicar aquellos motivos que llevaban a su transgresión. Este panel propone analizar las dinámicas sociales desarrolladas a partir de los diferentes procesos utilizados por las instituciones oficiales como el estado y la iglesia para adoctrinar, inquirir o ajusticiar a los sujetos coloniales. Además, busca explorar casos de ejemplaridad, disciplina y transgresión que dan cuenta de las múltiples facetas de estos sujetos desde perspectivas judiciales y cívicas en casos legales, así como en periódicos, crónicas, narrativas de viaje, y representaciones iconográficas. En este panel se explorarán preguntas como: ¿Qué tipo de comportamientos sociales se pretendía emular y cuáles erradicar desde ámbitos religiosos, morales y/o legales? ¿Qué tipo de contravenciones sociales eran castigadas legal, moral y/o religiosamente y cómo se llevaban a cabo los castigos? ¿Quiénes eran protagonistas este tipo de casos? Estas preguntas serán el punto de partida para cuestionar el funcionamiento y el atrofiamiento de los modelos religiosos, morales, y legales que circulaban en las colonias españolas y que determinaron el comportamiento de los sujetos coloniales que intentaban ajustarse a ellos, evadirlos o transgredirlos.

Friday, May 23, 7:30-9:30

 Colonial Section Reception, Tanta Peruvian restaurant

Thursday, May 22, 8:00 to 9:45am

Paper Trails: The Materiality of Documentation in the Spanish Empire. Sponsor: History and Historiographies/Historical Processes. Session Organizers: Aaron M Hyman (University of California/Berkeley), Matthew Goldmark (University of Pennsylvania). Discussant: Joanne Rappaport (Georgetown University)

1. “Blank pages in 16th century Mexico City,” Barbara E Mundy (Fordham University)
2. “Papereality and Branding: The Materiality of Governance and Sixteenth-Century Indigenous Slaves,” Nancy E van Deusen (Queen’s University)
3. “Of Signatures and Status: Andrés Sánchez Gallque and Painters in Early Colonial Quito,” Susan V Webster (College of William & Mary)

Abstract: The Spanish Empire ran on paper. In addition to its role in colonial administration, paper punctuated lives; at charged moments people turned to pieces of paper in acts of remembrance, obligation, and contestation. This panel explores the materiality of this paper: how these sheets came to function as objects in their own right. The turn towards materiality and objects in colonial studies need not be opposed to text. As such, panelists explore how imperial subjects engaged paper as a concrete object and not merely a blank space for the registration of abstracted ideas.

Discurso religioso y cultura colonial. Sponsor: Literary Studies: Colonial and 19th Century. Session Organizer: Pablo Javier Ansolabehere (Universidad de San Andrés)

1. “Espacio académico y defensa de la educación criolla en los sermones a San Antonio de Juan de Espinosa Medrano,” Juan M Vitulli (University of Notre Dame)
2. “La construcción del concepto de ‘plebe’ en textos jesuitas del siglo XVIII quiteño,” Carla E Flores (Tulane University)
3. “Writing Violence on the Colonial Frontier: Franciscan Historiography in 17th Century Yucatan,” Alejandro Enriquez (Illinois State University)
4. “¿Catecismo para leer a Las Casas? Dos recientes biografías del obispo de Chiapas y nuestro quehacer intelectual,” Luis Fernando Restrepo (University of Arkansas)

Language, Economy, and the Animal: Interdisciplinary Reconsiderations of Andean Literature. Sponsor: Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Session Organizer: Manuel J Del Alto (University of California/Irvine)

1. “‘Pues soy indio’: Voice, Language, and Authority in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s Comentarios reales de los incas,” Manuel J Del Alto (University of California/Irvine)
2. “Many Andean Voices: A Comparative Study of the Colonial Quechua Dramas ‘Ollantay’ and ‘The Tragedy of Atahualpa’”, Lisl Schoepflin (University of California Los Angeles)
3. “Underground Value: Counterfeiting and Precious Metals in Clorinda Matto de Turner,” Lisa R Burner (University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign)
4. “The Indigenista Question of the Animal in Enrique López Albújar’s El fin de un redentor,” Carolina Beltran (University of California/Los Angeles)

Abstract: This panel questions existent approaches to canonical Peruvian texts and authors by offering interdisciplinary perspectives that problematize established notions of Andean literature and cultural identities. Considering colonial texts that interrogate the tensions and limitations between Spanish and Quechua as competing linguistic and identitarian discourses, this panel examines the importance of the voice and performance in the portrayal of the indigenous for European audiences within traditional forms. Juxtaposed with modern Andean literature, this panel on the one hand re-reads critiques of Church abuses in dialogue with anxieties around monetary fraud and on the other it recasts indigenista debates that rely on anthropocentric depictions of the relationship among Indians, animals and technological modernity.

Thursday, May 22, 10:00 to 11:45am

Maps, Urban Spaces and Population: Latin American and Caribbean Cartography and History (18th- 20th C). Sponsor: History and Historiographies/Historical Processes. Session Organizer: Delia González de Reufels (Universitaet Bremen). Chair: Magali M Carrera (University of Massachusetts)

1. “Cartography, Identity, and Revolution: Francisco José de Caldas at the Frontier,” Santa Arias (University of Kansas)
2. “The Post-Road from Buenos Ayres to Potosi 1816: The Relationship of a Map to British Commercial Interests and Travel Writing,” Anthony P Mullan (Library of Congress)
3. “The Popular and the Populace in Pictorial Mapping of Mexico,” Delia A Cosentino (DePaul University)
4. “Mapping Population Growth: The Case of Haiti,” Delia González de Reufels (Universitaet Bremen)

Abstract: Maps change over the centuries to reflect social and political shifts, the development of new scientific disciplines and technologies and the demands for new forms of presenting information. Latin American cartography has responded to these needs and possibilities since late colonial times. With the appearance of the independent nation state, a notable shift in cartographic thought took place: maps no longer just depicted and thus constructed the national territory, but also organized, analysed and displayed data on urban spaces and population in unique ways, which will be examined in this interdisciplinary panel.

Thursday, May 22, 2:00 to 3:45pm

Theories on the Colonial Latin American Archive. Sponsor: Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Session Organizer: Olimpia E Rosenthal (Indiana University). Chair: Olimpia E Rosenthal (Indiana University).

1. “El Inca Garcilaso y el archivo prehispánico. Apuntes para una reconceptualización de la noción de archivo colonial,” Enrique E Cortez (Portland State University)
2. “Historizicing Race: Slavery & the Archive in Colonial Mexico,” Olimpia E Rosenthal (Indiana University)
3. “‘Aquí hay puro pedrerío’: colonialidad, archivo y tradición en San Andrés Mixquic, México,” Mario A Rufer (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimico)
4. “‘Doctrina y enseñanza de los Reyes Incas’: Biopolitics, Illiteracy, and the Latin American Colonial Archive,” Abraham Acosta (University of Arizona)
5. “The Digital Contextualization of the Dispersed Colonial Latin American Archive,” Albert A Palacios (University of Texas at Austin)

Abstract: The aim of this interdisciplinary panel is to create a forum for the discussion of different hermeneutical approaches to the Colonial Latin American Archive. As a repository of knowledge, the Archive is a site of tension between history and its narration, memory and epistemic violence, archiving and its effects on historiography. By bringing together differing perspectives from literature, cultural studies, and history, this session reevaluates current theorizations of the Colonial Latin American Archive (drawing on works by Foucault, Derrida, Guha, González-Echevarría, and Taylor), it provides reflections on the praxis of archival research and archiving, and it offers a renewed dialogue on the limits of discursive representation (including the place of orality, colonial semiosis, and performance).

The politics of slavery and freedom in the revolutionary Atlantic. Sponsor: Afro-Latin and Indigenous Peoples. Session Organizer: Fernanda Bretones Lane (Vanderbilt University) and Bethan R Fisk (University of Toronto). Chair: Jane G Landers (Vanderbilt University). Discussant: Ana Lucia A Araujo (Howard University).

1. “The politics of conversion: conquest, reform and free people of color in late 18th century Caribbean New Granada,” Bethan R Fisk (University of Toronto)
2. “Silencing the memory? Slavery in the Cuban press in the early 19th century,” Fernanda Bretones Lane (Vanderbilt University)
3. “Afro-descendencia, esclavitud, ciudadanía y género. Interrogando el discurso literario a través de la historia,” Evelyne Laurent-Perrault (New York University)
4. “Slavery, free labor, and the Coro Rebellion of 1795,” Enrique Rivera

Abstract: This panel explores some of the many political visions of slavery and freedom articulated by the state, the press and people of color in the revolutionary Atlantic world. We consider contrasting, yet connected discourse surrounding slavery, anti-slavery and freedom during the revolutions and political reform of the Americas following the fall of the colonial Empires (1750 – 1890). Papers included in this panel are related to the memory of slavery in the printed press and in novels as well as the reaction of the state and elites in face of growing size, mobility and political activity of people of color.

Thursday, May 22, 4:00 to 5:45pm

Geografía inventada: poder y colonialidad en las islas atlánticas. Sponsor: Culture, Power and Political Subjectivities. Session Organizer: María Hernández-Ojeda (City University of New York/Hunter College). Discussant: Benita Sampedro (Hofstra University)

1. “La cartografía ficticia de las Islas Canarias,” María Hernández-Ojeda (City University of New York/Hunter College)
2. “‘Cuba es un paraíso!’: La invención de las Américas y sus secuelas cubanas,” Rolando Perez (Hunter College)
3. “Ilustración colonial: sobre las mediaciones atlánticas, vascas e insulares de una Iberia imperialista,” Joseba Gabilondo (Michigan State University)

Abstract: La Modernidad comienza con la invasión de América, como afirmaron Enrique Dussel y otros. Este momento representa la apertura geopolítica de Europa, la “invención” de un sistema colonial que definiría el poder político y económico del mundo. Por ello, desde 1492, la maquinaria económica europea comienza un proceso de cambio que tiene lugar en los encuentros atlánticos. En este panel “Geografía inventada: poder y colonialidad en las islas atlánticas” se explorará el atlas geográfico de los archipiélagos atlánticos como un lugar de percepción espacial donde se reformulan las conexiones entre orillas y culturas, tal y como sugiere Graham Huggan, en lugar de entenderlo como un medio de organización sistemática, establecido desde el siglo XV por el discurso más oficialista del poder colonial.

Enlightenment and its Afterlives I: What did Enlightenment look like in Spanish America? Sponsor: Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Session Organizer: Ana Sabau Fernández (Princeton University)

1. “Minerva americana: figuraciones del conocimiento en el intelectual dieciochesco,” Jose F Robles (Colgate University)
2. “Syphilis Enlightened: Spanish American Colonies, Disease and Healing,” Juan Carlos González-Espitia (University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill)
3. “From idols to antiquities: building the National Museum of Mexico, 1820s,” Miruna Achim (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)
4. “El eclipse de la elegía en las ruinas aztecas de José María Heredia,” Carlos Abreu Mendoza (University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill)

Abstract: Este panel tiene como objetivo abrir un espacio de reflexión y debate sobre lo que significó el fenómeno y concepto de “ilustración” en las Américas. El panel estará constituido por dos sesiones complementarias: la primera, destinada a un estudio de las ideas ilustradas de finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX, abordándolas desde una mirada que busque resaltar las continuidades en el proceso de transición hacia el período post-colonial, así como también favoreciendo una comprensión de la emergencia de estas ideas desde un marco que enfatice la compleja compenetración entre intercambios globales y contribuciones locales detrás de ellas. La segunda sesión estará abocada a indagar las secuelas del pensamiento ilustrado durante el siglo XIX , a través de una exploración de los discursos sobre pedagogía y políticas públicas que proliferaron en las esferas letradas de las repúblicas emergentes. Se prestará particular atención a las tensiones y choques sociales que los variados procesos de democratización trajeron consigo.

Thursday, May 22, 6:00 to 7:45pm

Enlightenment and its Afterlives II: Sequels of Enlightenment in the Americas: pedagogy and theater. Sponsor: Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Session Organizer: Ana Sabau Fernández (Princeton University).

1. “Spectacular Enlightenment in Early 1800s Montevideo and Buenos Aires,” William G Acree (Washington University/St. Louis)
2. “Aurora Cáceres and Cecilia Acosta de Samper on Virtue and Feminist Biography,” Ronald D Briggs (Barnard College)
3. “Juana Manso, pedagogía Inter-Americana y metodología popular,” Alejandra J Josiowicz (Princeton University)
4. “The Yucatán in Enlightened Eyes: Justo Sierra O’Reilly and the Anxiety of Circulating Untruth,” Ty H West (Vanderbilt University)
5. “Por una política de la ignorancia: una exploración retórica de la Guerra de Castas,” Ana Sabau Fernández (Princeton University)

Women, Gender and Religious Alterity. Sponsor: Religion and Spirituality. Session Organizer: Virginia Garrard-Burnett (University of Texas/Austin).

1. “Catequese e magia: uma análise da idolatria nas crônicas da Nova Espanha do século XVII,” Ana Carolina Machado de Souza
2. “Old World Magic in a New Religious World: Cures, Divination, and Curses in Colonial Brazil,” Carole A Myscofski (Illinois Wesleyan University)
3. “Decolonializing Virgin Mary? Costa Rica´s La Negrita and Hierarchies of Race, Gender, Religion and Class,” Elina I Vuola (University of Helsinki)
4. “La mujer cubana y la religion de origen africano en Cuba,” Ariel Luis Aguilar Reyes (Havana University)
5. “Latin@s, Faith and Political Power: Re-envisioning the Faith that Does Justice,” Jeannette G Henriquez (Graduate Theological Union)

Thursday, May 22, 8:00 to 8:45pm

Colonial Section – Business Meeting

Colleagues and friends of Colonial Latin American Studies: welcome to this public page that intends to spread the word on initiatives, projects and publications related to our field. Announcements of academic events, projects, research groups, fellowships, summer institutes, publications, are welcome here.

Let’s expand our field and transform it beyond the colonial frontiers.