Colonia/Colônia 4:2

Issue 4:2, May 2016 Note from the Outgoing Chair ........................................................................................................ 2

Note from the Editor ....................................................................................................................... 3

Honors, Awards, and Promotions ................................................................................................... 3

Member Publications ...................................................................................................................... 4

Graduate Student News................................................................................................................... 6

Other News ..................................................................................................................................... 6

The Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale University (MAVCOR) launches redesigned website .............................................................................. 6

The Digital Humanities Initiative at University of North Florida launches coloniaLab ............ 7

The Impact of Guaman Poma de Ayala on the Social Sciences and the Humanities ................. 8

Raquel Chang-Rodríguez y David T. Gies ganan el premio nacional “Enrique Anderson Imbert” 2016 otorgado por la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española ................. 9

Colonial Sessions at LASA 2016 .................................................................................................. 11

Resources ...................................................................................................................................... 28

About the Colonial Section of LASA and Colonia/Colônia ......................................................... 29

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Note from the Outgoing Chair Once more I am delighted to share with members of LASA Colonial our May 2016 newsletter.

I also, would like to recognize Pablo García Loaeza’s excellent job as the current newsletter editor, as well as Claudia Berríos, Chloe Ireton, Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, and Mariana Velázquez for all their generous assistance in making this newsletter a success. In addition, I thank Nathan James Gordon and Caroline Egan, who manage our social media and our email communications respectively, for the excellent job they do to disseminate our message.

I am honored to have served as chair of the Colonial Section for the 2015-2016 term, and am grateful to all those who have lent their support and encouragement during this time. Finally, I would like to thank Clayton McCarl for his extraordinary work as former editor of our newsletter and current communications director for the section. Clayton helped me in many ways during this year. Before stepping down, I would like to offer the following review of our accomplishments this past year.

Since its formal inauguration at LASA 2013, the Section has continued to grow as a dynamic interdisciplinary forum for scholars of the Latin American colonial world. Currently we have 121 members (member list).

Our growing numbers allow us to sponsor a total of three panels at LASA 2016. Ann De León organized “The Re-articulation of the Colonial Past in the 18th and 19th Century and Its Contemporary Legacy,” Kelly McDonough organized “Space, Place, and Mapping in Colonial Contexts,” and Pablo García Loaeza organized “The Colonial Connection: Colonial Practices and Contemporary Cultural Products.” Many of our section members will also be presenting a variety of exciting papers or workshops at the conference, and so I encourage you to visit the convention website/see listing below.

This year saw the creation of the prize for Best Book in Colonial Latin American Studies by a Junior Scholar. Mónica Díaz, section vice-chair and chair of the awards committee, skillfully managed this process. The winner(s) will be officially recognized at our business meeting (Sunday, May 29, 7:45-8:45pm).

I would also like to invite section members to participate in the inaugural congress for the Sociedad Iberoamericana Siglo de Oro (SIBSO), which will take place August 11-13, 2016 in Arequipa, Peru. The SIBSO congress will be an opportunity to showcase our research projects and get to know other colleagues from Latin America and Spain.

I thank you for your financial support to our section. Your contributions are vital to the graduate students and junior colleagues in the early stages of the profession. I would like to ask all members to continue your generous support. To do so, you may send a check in any amount to LASA, 416 Bellefield Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, with “Colonial Section’s Awards Fund” on the memo line.

The officers for 2016-2017 are as follows: Mónica Díaz, chair; Pablo García Loaeza, vice-chair and chair of awards committee; Kelly McDonough, council member and secretary-treasurer; and Nathan Gordon, council member. I will continue for one more year as council member to provide support and advice. Clayton McCarl, will continue as the Section’s communications manager, and Pablo García Loaeza will continue as newsletter editor.

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With great pleasure, I hand over the leadership of the Section to Mónica Díaz, who will continue to skillfully guide us forward. Please join me in wishing Mónica the greatest of success, and in thanking Executive Council members Pablo, Mónica and Kelly for their long-term commitment to the Section’s future.

Sincerely,

Raúl Marrero-Fente

Note from the Editor Besides our regular sections, this issue of Colonia/Colônia includes news about two very exciting digital projects, a seminar on Guaman Poma de Ayala recently held at John Hopkins University, and a prestigious award received by colonial-section member Raquel Chang-Rodríguez. ¡Enhorabuena Raquel!

Chloe Ireton deserves all the credit, as well as our thanks, for compiling a list of the sessions relevant to colonial studies scheduled for the upcoming LASA Congress in New York.

I encourage colonial section members to keep submitting announcements about their honors, awards, and publications. I also invite our readers in general to share news, events, or opportunities that may be relevant to the colonial scholarly community. The guidelines and contact for the different sections appear at the end of each issue.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome. You may send them to me at Pablo.Garcia[at]mail.wvu.edu

Sincerely,

Pablo García Loaeza

Honors, Awards, and Promotions Rocío Quispe-Agnoli (Romance and Classical Studies, MSU) won the 2016 College of Arts & Letters Faculty Leadership Award, which recognizes faculty members who go above and beyond the routine tasks, are generous in sharing insights, and provide hard work and mentorship to others that creates excellence and vision in programs and departments. Jimena Rodríguez (Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA) was selected to participate in the NEH summer seminar, Mapping, Text, and Travel, which will take place at the Herman Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library in Chicago.

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Member Publications This feature showcases the work of section members and serves to keep the community abreast of the latest published research on field-related topics. For guidelines, see the final section of this newsletter. Allen, Heather. 2016. “‘Llorar amargamente:’ Economies of Weeping in the Spanish

Empire.” Colonial Latin American Review 24 (4): 1-26. ______. 2016. “Constructed Discourse in Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Chronicles.”

In Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy, edited by Galen Brokaw and Jongsoo Lee, 153-78. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

______. 2015. “‘Me cago en Colón’: Criticizing Global Projects in 19th-Century Santo

Domingo.” Laberinto 8: 64-87. García Loaeza, Pablo. 2016. “Credible, Accurate, and Approved: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl

and Mexico’s Patriotic Historiography.” In Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy, edited by Jongsoo Lee and Galen Brokaw, 257-282. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Jáuregui, Carlos A. 2015. “Oswaldo Costa, Antropofagia, and the Cannibal Critique of Colonial

Modernity.” Culture & History Digital Journal 4 (2). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/chdj.2015.017

McCarl, Clayton. 2015. “Carlos Enriques Clerque as Crypto-Jewish Confidence Man in Francisco de Seyxas Lovera’s Piratas y contrabandistas (1693).” Colonial Latin American Review 24.3: 406-420.

McKnight, Kathryn Joy, and Leo J. Garofalo, eds. 2015. Afro-Latino Voices, Shorter Edition:

Translations of Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic Narratives. Cambridge: Hackett. An anthology of the early modern voices of the African diaspora evident in wills, petitions, judicial cases, letters, and other primary sources provided in English with historical, cultural, social, and political contextualization by the twenty contributing scholars covering the black Atlantic world of Spain, Portugal, West Africa, Mexico, Spanish South America, Brazil, and various Caribbean regions. The book covers politics and war, families and communities, religious beliefs and practices, and claiming and defending rights in courts. Readers are invited to examine the diaspora in a comparative fashion and how people engaged Iberian and colonial power individually and collectively. More information.

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Peña Núñez, Beatriz Carolina. 2016. Fray Diego de Ocaña: olvido, mentira y memoria. Alicante:

Universidad de Alicante. Ocaña designa las Indias como tierra de olvido. Así, al objetivo de su viaje desde Extremadura – recoger limosnas para su monasterio−, añade otro esencial: luchar contra esa desmemoria. Partiendo del antiguo arte de la memoria, este libro estudia las estrategias mnemotécnicas que Ocaña produce para enfrentar la amnesia índica en favor de su misión. También desmonta las mitificaciones del itinerario y, en los pasajes históricos de la Relación, expone pruebas de la desmemoria colectiva sobre la invasión del Tawantinsuyu. Se descubre parte del sustrato productor de discursos que niegan el derecho indígena a sus territorios mientras legitiman el dominio castellano. More information. ______. 2014. Fonolitos. Las piedras campanas de Eten: rituales, milagros y codicia.

Valladolid: Glyphos Publicaciones. Con base histórica, literaria, arqueológica y religiosa, este libro estudia las piedras campanas de Eten, del norte de Perú, para dilucidar su significado indígena. Asimismo se exponen las notas de viajeros que pasaron por Eten y observaron estos fonolitos. Además de explicar su petrología, se aclara por qué amenazaron la implantación del catolicismo durante la época colonial y qué hicieron los franciscanos del área para resignificarlos y lograr el olvido de las tradiciones nativas vinculadas a ellos. También, se trata sobre la destrucción de las rocas y qué le pasó a la persona que, al parecer, la llevó a cabo. More information. ______. 2015. “Mystic Ringing of Stone Bells: A Case of Annihilation of Cultural Memory in

Peru”. In Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America: Trauma, Politics, and Resistance, edited by Aída Díaz de León, Marina Llorente, and Marcella Salvi, 127-38. Maryland: Lexington Books.

______. 2015. “Titu Cusi Yupanqui: el clamor de Manco Inca y el trauma cultural

andino.” Ixquic: Revista hispánica internacional de análisis literario y cultural 11:79-100.

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Graduate Student News This feature highlights the work of the newest members of our field. For guidelines, see the final section of this newsletter.

Grants and Fellowships Awarded

Savannah Esquivel (Art History, University of Chicago), Edilia and François-Auguste Montêqui Junior Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians.

John Carter Brown Library José Amor Vasquez Fellowship to support research on the dissertation entitled: “Ornament and Antiquity in the Murals of Sixteenth Century Mexico.”

Kevin Sedeño-Guillén (Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky), María Salgado Student Travel Grant, granted by The Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (IASECS) to participate in the 47th American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS) Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh with the presentation “No Obligation to Observe: Barbarians and Infidels in the Legal Geography of European Modernity”.

Pilar Sáenz Annual Student Essay Prize, granted by IASECS for the essay “Del tiempo al espacio de la modernidad: Lugares coloniales del conocimiento en las Américas del siglo XVIII.”

Claudia Berríos-Campos (Romance and Classical Studies, Michigan State University), Varg-Sullivan Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Letters, granted by the College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University in recognition of “La tentación de la legitimidad en el Manuscrito de Huarochirí,” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 80.2 (2014): 139-149.

Dr. Johannes Sasche Memorial Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in Spanish, granted by the Department of Romance and Classical Studies, Michigan State University.

Chloe Ireton (University of Texas at Austin), University Graduate Continuing Fellowship, granted by the University of Texas at Austin.

Helen Watson Bucker Memorial Fellowship, granted by the John Carter Brown Library.

Other News

The Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale

University (MAVCOR) launches redesigned website

The Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale University (MAVCOR) is delighted to announce the public launch of our redesigned website. MAVCOR is characterized by its subjects of inquiry and by the forms of scholarly, interdisciplinary activity it promotes. The Center is equally about the study of the material, visual, sensory, and spatial “stuff” of religious practice and about multiplying ways of being in conversation, of sharing information and producing knowledge, about this set of subjects.

This collaboration shapes a multidisciplinary scholarly Center for religion and visual/material culture studies at Yale University. From this local base, the Center aims to facilitate a network of

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institutional and individual partners in varied settings, including higher education, religious communities, arts and architectural professions, museums, and civic life.

As part of the Center's promotion of conversation around its subjects of inquiry, the Center publishes the Material Objects Archive, a growing database of material and visual objects activated in religious practices broadly conceived, and Conversations, a born-digital, peer-reviewed journal. Conversations includes a variety of contribution types, including Object Narratives, Essays, Material Mediations, Constellations, Interviews, and Medium Studies. Scholars at all ranks of training and profession in related fields are encouraged to contribute to Conversations and the Material Objects Archive. Both text and image contributions may be submitted to the Center's peer review process by emailing [email protected]

Over the past year, a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, along with additional support from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, has allowed MAVCOR to complete this work of revision and enhanced functionality. In addition to a more attractive and streamlined interface, the redesign incorporates a number of changes to expand visitor experience of the site. These include a sophisticated search engine specific to MAVCOR’s Material Objects Archive and a global site search engine that allows visitors to search all site content, or to limit searches to our blind-peer-reviewed born-digital journal Conversations. A new Fellows Portal supports MAVCOR’s multi-year project cycles; these center around a specific theme related to MAVCOR’s interests and bring together groups of interdisciplinary scholar/fellows from a range of institutions, national and international.

Two new content types contribute to MAVCOR’s investment in innovative ways of engaging its publics and doing digital scholarship. One of these, Mediations, which is offered within Conversations, provides space for theoretical and experimental reflection within the journal.

The second new category, Collections, expands the possibilities of MAVCOR’s Material Objects Archive, allowing individual scholars to curate large, multi-object contributions to the archive. Collections exist both within the Archive and as separate entities, associated with the name of their contributor/author, and accompanied by optional discursive text. Contributors may also divide each Collection into subfields accompanied by further written introductory content. One anticipated use of Collections is to display color images related to print publications, and to do so in numbers that exceed the possibilities of the print format. Such Collections would complement the print publication and include links to the publisher’s page for the volume in question.

MAVCOR welcomes contributions that combine substantial and original scholarship with accessibility to a generally educated public. We look forward to future collaborations and invite you to explore the new site. More information.

The Digital Humanities Initiative at University of North Florida launches

coloniaLab

Clayton McCarl is pleased to announce the establishment of coloniaLab, an interactive workshop for collaborative electronic edition of colonial-era texts based at the University of North Florida (UNF). McCarl is the founding director and general editor of coloniaLab, an affiliate project of the UNF Digital Humanities Initiative, of which McCarl is also founder and interim chair. More information.

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The Impact of Guaman Poma de Ayala on the Social Sciences and the Humanities On April 8-9, 2016, The John Hopkins University and the Embassy of Peru in the United States sponsored the symposium The Impact of Guaman Poma de Ayala on the Social Sciences and the Humanities, which was organized by Professor Sara Castro-Klaren. Gary Urton (Harvard University) delivered the keynote speech (“From Guaman Poma de Ayala to R. Tom Zuidema: Two Unique Views on the Andean World”) and invited speakers presented their latest works and findings on the Peruvian Indian chronicler and his context. Some of Guaman Poma’s drawings and books from the university’s Special Collections were put on display and discussed during the symposium. The event also honored the life and works of R. Tom Zuidema, Emeritus Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

(From left to right) Christian Fernández, Flavia Azeredo-Cerqueira, Sharona Frederick, Lauren Judy, Julio Ortega, Sara Castro-Klarén, Catherine Allen, Ian Rogers, Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Verónica Salles-Reese, Eyda Merediz, Regina Harrison, Tom Ward, Francesca Montellanos, Paul Espinosa.

Presentations included (in alphabetical order):

• Catherine Allen, “Zuidema, Calendars, and the Suppression of Time.”

• Martin Carrión, “Guaman Poma and the ‘Catechetic Liturgy’: Mayordomos, Sacristans, and Painters.”

• Lisa De Leonardis, “Awash in Line and Color: Picturing Guaman Poma’s Andean Universe.”

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• Christian Fernández, “Nueva corónica y buen gobierno’s Impact on Andean Historical and Ethnographical Epistemologies.”

• Sharonah Fredrick, “Understanding the Multivalent Beliefs in Guaman Poma: Understanding Non-Incan Cosmologies in the Corónica.”

• Regina Harrison, “Guaman Poma Puts Pen to Paper: Cultural Contexts.”

• James Maffie, “Beyond the Written Text: Reflections on the Metaphysics of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva corónica y buen gobierno.”

• Julio Ortega, “Formato y mensaje en la Corónica de Guaman Poma. En torno al modo de significación andina.”

• Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, “Minding the Gap: Guamán Poma’s Silent Ship of Fools.”

Raquel Chang-Rodríguez y David T. Gies ganan el premio nacional “Enrique

Anderson Imbert” 2016 otorgado por la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española

Dos destacados catedráticos e investigadores universitarios han sido los ganadores de la edición 2016 del Premio Nacional “Enrique Anderson Imbert” de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE). Ellos son Raquel Chang-Rodríguez de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York (CUNY) y David T. Gies de la Universidad de Virginia (UVA).

Este galardón –el más prestigioso que concede anualmente la ANLE desde el 2012– tiene por finalidad reconocer la trayectoria de vida profesional de quienes han contribuido con sus estudios, trabajos y obras al conocimiento y difusión de la lengua, las letras y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos. El premio, de naturaleza no venal, se concede anualmente a personas naturales o jurídicas residentes de los Estados Unidos y consta de un diploma, una placa artística y una medalla conmemorativa.

En una decisión sin precedentes, el Jurado se inclinó por compartir el galardón entre dos grandes académicos, haciendo un patente homenaje a sus trayectorias profesionales y sus obras en sus distintas especialidades, pero en ambos casos profundamente comprometidas con la trascendencia de la lengua y las letras hispánicas en los Estados Unidos, cuyos resultados han ido más allá del ámbito nacional para diseminarse en el ámbito internacional.

En el caso de Raquel Chang Rodríguez, el jurado fundamentó su decisión “por una relevante labor de sostenido magisterio e investigación orientada al rescate, fijación, difusión y estudio de textos fundacionales de la cultura hispánica en América, concretada en una nutrida producción y promoción académica de reconocida excelencia que amalgama la solvencia teórica, el rigor metodológico y la lucidez interpretativa; y por la trascendencia de sus contribuciones al conocimiento y valoración de los documentos que testimonian la temprana emergencia de una literatura en lengua española en el territorio que hoy forma parte de los Estados Unidos”.

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Con referencia a David T. Gies el Jurado reconoció “la riqueza de un perfil profesional que exhibe una dinámica articulación entre el magisterio y la investigación que se proyecta hacia otras instituciones académicas del vasto mundo hispanohablante, promoviendo la colaboración, el intercambio y la realización de proyectos comunes; y por la generosidad y el celo con que se ha prodigado en la dirección de programas y cátedras universitarias, para la formación de nuevos profesionales capaces de impulsar hacia el futuro la promoción y difusión de los estudios hispánicos en los Estados Unidos”.

El Jurado estuvo conformado por nueve miembros provenientes de la ANLE, de la ASALE (Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española) y de instituciones socioeducativas y culturales panhispánicas tanto de los Estados Unidos como del ámbito internacional.

El Director de la ANLE, Gerardo Piña-Rosales, declaró: “El Jurado desarrolló una labor digna de encomio por la ecuanimidad de juicio entre dos candidatos cuyas similares trayectorias en publicaciones, méritos, aportes y contribuciones en el quehacer académico han sido puentes entre distintas generaciones con una vasta repercusión dentro y fuera de los Estados Unidos”.

A su vez Carlos E. Paldao, Secretario del certamen, comentó: “Sin duda alguna los dos galardonados honran nuestra Academia por ser académicos de un reconocido prestigio nacional e internacional y con trayectorias similares muy difíciles de zanjar por la elevada calidad de sus abundantes y universalmente conocidas obras y magisterio que les otorga una significación singular en las letras hispanas de este siglo”.

Por su parte Raquel Chang-Rodríguez expresó: “Un gran orgullo recibir el Premio Nacional otorgado por la ANLE. Me formé en el subgrado con la antología de literatura hispanoamericana a cargo de don Enrique Anderson Imbert. Lo conocí en un congreso internacional en la década de los setenta. Allí el profesor aclamado escuchó pacientemente a la crítica novata. Mi gratitud al jurado por esta distinción que renueva mi vínculo con don Enrique, maestro generoso y admirado crítico. Feliz de compartir el galardón con David. T. Gies cuya labor e investigaciones en el campo del hispanismo he seguido y apreciado”.

Del mismo modo David T. Gies manifestó: “Recibir la noticia de este inmerecido reconocimiento de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española me deja (casi) sin palabras. La Academia ha llevado a cabo una labor importantísima a lo largo de su existencia en defensa de la lengua española y a favor del enriquecimiento de ella en nuestro país (donde, hay que notarlo, hay más hispanohablantes que en la misma España). Como actual Presidente de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, este momento nos da más oportunidades para colaborar en proyectos comunes. El encontrarme ahora galardonado por los Académicos de esta gran institución me honra doblemente: una vez por el premio y otra por poder compartirlo con la gran hispanista Raquel Chang-Rodríguez”.

Los ganadores de las ediciones anteriores fueron Elias Rivers, catedrático emérito de la Universidad del Estado de Nueva York (2012), Saúl Sosnowski, de la Universidad de Maryland (2013), Nicolás Kanellos de la Universidad de Houston (2014) y Manuel Durán Gili, catedrático emérito de la Universidad de Yale (2015).

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Colonial Sessions at LASA 2016 The following listing is an attempt to enumerate sessions and events of interest to scholars of the colonial period to be held at the 34th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association: LASA at 50, New York, New York May 27 - 30, 2016. We apologize in advance for any omissions or inaccuracies, and encourage you to refer to the official conference program in case of any doubt.

N.B.: No locations listed on the preliminary program, please check official program for the location of each session.

Thursday, May 26, 2:00 to 5:00 pm Pre-Conference: Meeting of PolSoc: Red Latinoamericana de Análisis de la Política Social PolSoc: Red Latinoamericana de Análisis de la Política Social es una red de colaboración multidisciplinaria de académicos/as provenientes de diferentes instituciones dedicados/as a la investigación de los procesos sociopolíticos involucrados en la formación de las políticas sociales de América Latina con una perspectiva comparada de países, sectores y períodos históricos. A partir de esta “Pre-conference Meeting” buscamos informar el estado de avance de la red e intercambiar ideas sobre su proyección, actividades y productos.

1. Rossana Castiglioni, Universidad Diego Portales 2. Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Universidad de Costa Rica 3. Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, University of Oxford

Friday, May 27, 8:00 to 9:30am

Religión y religiosidades en la época colonial Chair: Pedro Miranda Ojeda Discussant: Sussette Martínez

1. Desnaturalización Mapuche e Hibridación Religiosa: el caso de un indio hechicero (Santiago de Chile, 1739), Jaime Valenzuela Márquez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

2. Geography and Inca Religion in Bernabé Cobo’s Historia del Nuevo Mundo: A Historiographical Critique, David H. Jung

3. Imágenes de la idolatría en el siglo XVI: violencia religiosa en México, Perú y Colombia, Carlos José Suárez García, Universidad de Guadalajara

4. La geodemografía inquisitorial. Las ciudades como centros de control de las comisarías del Santo Oficio en la Nueva España, siglos XVI-XVIII, Pedro Miranda Ojeda

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Friday, May 27, 9:45 to 11:15am

Colonial Imaginaries in the Andes Organizer: Ananda I. Cohen Suárez, Cornell University Discussant: Kenneth R. Mills, University of Michigan This panel explores different methodological approaches to the phenomena of visionary experience and imagination in colonial Latin America. How can we uncover the interior worlds of Latin America’s colonial subjects as a means to better understand the frames through which alternate realms and futures were envisioned? How might an interdisciplinary analysis of notarial records and judicial cases in conjunction with art, architecture, and literature facilitate nuanced perspectives on the subjective worlds that colonized individuals inhabited? The participants consider how colonial ideologies imposed from above filtered into the hearts and minds of individuals and communities and contributed to the subaltern shaping of colonial institutions. These papers address the construction of spiritual, political, sexual, racial, and cultural imaginaries both during the colonial era and beyond. Bringing together scholars of art history, literary studies, and history, this panel encourages cross-disciplinary dialogue on the forging of identities and collectivities among colonized peoples and their descendants.

1. Imagining Insurgency in Late Colonial Peru, Ananda I. Cohen Suárez, Cornell University,

2. W. E. B. Du Bois, Colonialism as a Visual Regime, and the Dung-Pushing Beetle, Gonzalo Lamana, University of Pittsburgh

3. Realizing Freedom in Mid-Colonial Peru, Rachel S. O’Toole, University of California/ Irvine,

4. Arising from Ashes: Re-Imagining the Royal Inca Pampa in 1550 A.D., Stella E. Nair, University of California/ Los Angeles

Historias intelectuales latinoamericanas de los siglos XVI-XVIII Chair: Jorge Téllez, University of Pennsylvania Discussant: Kelly Linares Terry, El Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística “José Antonio Portuondo Valdor”

1. Aristotle’s Influence in the New Spain. A dissertation on the sixteenth century Mexican philosophy, Virginia Aspe Armelia, Universidad Panamericana,

2. Colonial Elective Affinities, Silva Alvarenda and Luiz de Vasconcelos, Fernando Morato

3. Hacia una teoria de la lectura de la época colonial, Jorge Téllez, University of Pennsylvania,

4. Conciencia histórica en el barroco fronterizo del reino de chile, siglos XVI y XVII, Luz A. Martínez, Universidad de Chile

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Friday, May 27, 2:30 to 4:00pm

Featured Session - Exploring the Ins and Outs of Academic Publishing: An Insider's View

(Monographs) Organizer: Philip D. Oxhorn, McGill University

Trayectorias de africanos y afrodescendientes en Hispanoamérica colonial y republicana Organizers: Magdalena del Corazon Candioti, CONICET/Instituto Ravignani UBA/UNL; Carolina González Unurraaga, Universidad de Chile Este panel tiene como objetivo reflexionar sobre las diversas formas en que africanos y sus descendientes fueron esclavizados y sobre las diversas formas en las que buscaron revertir esa condición. Se recorrerá desde el proceso de esclavización a partir del tráfico transatlántico hasta el uso de instituciones oficiales por parte de esos esclavizados para revertir el proceso. Ante los foros de justicia, por ejemplo, algunos reclamaron ser libres de nacimiento por ser indios por vía materna, otros sostuvieron merecer la libertad por vivir bajo una injusta esclavitud; durante el proceso de abolición otros lucharon por el correcto cumplimiento de la ley de libertad de vientres. Socialmente, en tanto, lograron formar parte de redes que permitieron alcanzar cierta movilidad social; participar en instituciones religiosas y seculares (como las cofradías y las milicias, en el caso de libertos o libres) e incluso, hubo quienes vivieron “como” libres, a pesar de que su condición jurídica era esclavo/a. Por el contrario, también hubo libres que, bajo complejas circunstancias, creían ser esclavos. Por todo esto, es posible percibir que la noción misma de esclavo era móvil y que un mismo sujeto podía entrar y salir de la esclavitud, incluso varias veces durante su vida, como bien han demostrado diversas investigaciones en la última década (i. e. R. Scott, K. Grimberg). Este panel considera importante seguir reflexionando sobre estos procesos para el caso Hispanoamericano colonial y de inicios de la república (primera mitad del s. XIX) y se propone articular casos locales, donde la producción documental y el contexto institucional, íntimamente relacionados, permiten conocer las prácticas (sociales, políticas y culturales) de aquellas personas que transitaron voluntariamente y no, entre la libertad y la esclavitud y viceversa.

1. Apuntes sobre el tráfico de esclavos en el Rio de la Plata en el siglo XVIII, Alex Borucki, University of California/Irvine

2. De libres a libertos y viceversa. La libertad de los afroargentinos en disputa entre 1810 y 1860, Magdalena del Corazón Candioti CONICET/Instituto Ravignani UBA/UNL

3. ¿Una esclavitud transitoria? Disputas judiciales sobre la condición del esclavo y libre en Ciudad de México (siglo XVIII), Carolina González Unurraaga, Universidad de Chile

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Periferias y zonas fronterizas en la Colonia: Procesos sociales Chair: Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

1. Actor, Traitor, Moor: Transoceanic cases of Negotiated Identity, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

2. California Septentrional Dreaming: Spain’s textual Incursions into the Pacific Northwest, Clayton L. McCarl, University of North Florida

Featured Session - Exploring the Ins and Outs of Academic Publishing: An Insider's View

(Journals)


Welcome Ceremony Welcome Ceremony for LASA2016! Open to all 2016 registered participants and attendees!


Welcome Reception Welcome reception for LASA2016 participants and attendees.

Saturday, May 28, 8:00 to 9:30am

The Electronic Edition of Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Latin America Texts: New

Tools, New Models for Collaboration Organizer: Clayton L. McCarl, University of North Florida Chair: Clayton L. McCarl, University of North Florida This workshop brings together a diverse group of experts for a conversation designed to reveal new possibilities for collaboration on Digital Humanities projects within the fields of colonial and nineteenth-century Latin America. Hannah Alpert-Abrams of the University of Texas at Austin will speak on Ocular, an optical character recognition (OCR) tool that can read multilingual texts, including those involving indigenous languages. Nick Laiacona, founder of Performant Software Solutions, will discuss Juxta, a TEI-XML-based editing tool that provides an easy-to-use graphical interface and features for project management, including version control. Liz Grumbach, Project Manager for the Advanced Research Consortium and 18thConnect, will share her experiences creating communities to support the peer-review of electronic scholarship. Ralph Bauer of the University of Maryland will discuss the changes that are taking place at the Early Americas Digital Archive. This discussion is designed as a starting point for an ongoing conversation that could lead to new Digital Humanities initiatives involving members of LASA. Presenters:

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1. Hannah Alpert-Abrams, University of Texas at Austin 2. Nicholas Laiacona, Performant Software Solutions LLC 3. Elizabeth Grumbach, Texas A&M University 4. Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland

The Colonial Connection: Colonial Practices and Contemporary Cultural Products Organizer: Pablo García Loaeza, West Virginia University Chair: Raul Marrero-Fente, University of Minnesota At LASA 2015, Aníbal Quijano insisted on the ongoing impact of coloniality in contemporary Latin American reality. The papers on this interdisciplinary panel consider the direct and perceptible influence of discrete colonial practices on contemporary cultural products, including intangible products, such as rituals, attitudes, and other performances. In keeping with the 2016 congress theme, it aims to bridge the temporal gap between the past and the present to reflect on the relevance of colonial studies for identifying, analyzing, and understanding current phenomena in Latin America.

1. The ghosts of Conquest: Broken Families in Colonial and Contemporary Texts, Matthew Goldmark, Bowdoin College

2. Materialidades fantasmas: Pervivencias de la colonialidad en los estudios coloniales latinoamericanos, Raul Marrero-Fente, University of Minnesota

3. Conexiones coloniales y resemantización de palabras o conceptos clave de la cultura guaraní en el Paraguay, siglos XVI a XXII, Guillaume Candela, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III

4. Diferencia sexual: el estado - de mal estar - latinoamerica, Francisca Antonina Garat Pey, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, USACH

5. Colonizing through the legal system: The use of courts, notaries, and informal contracts in rebuilding Lima after the quake of 1687, Judith M. Mansilla, Florida International University

Paradoxes of the Enlightenment and the Liberal Revolutions: Sugar and Coffee over

Freedom? Organizer: Alexander J. Sotelo Eastman, Washington University in St. Louis The debates of the radical Enlightenment and the liberal revolutions promoted ideas of equality, independence, and freedom contrary to slavery, an institution that, nevertheless, lasted until late 19th century in the Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico. This panel unites papers that address the legacies of the Enlightenment and Liberalism on the ideas regarding the African races, the labor they were forced to perform, and the social space they were supposed to occupy. What ideological and rhetorical tools were used to broach the contradictions around slavery as a practice by 18th and 19th century thinkers across Spanish territories? How were these tensions present not only in their writings but in everyday practices? These papers illuminate ideological and pragmatic changes brought about by the Enlightenment and the liberal revolutions and elaborate on how African descendants actively participated in these processes. The panel also

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puts into conversation the anti-slavery and pro-slavery dialogues that took place in the larger context of 19th century abolitionist movements.

1. Conflicting Abolitionisms: Cuba’s Royalist Black Press and the Battle for Representation of la raza de color, Alexander J. Sotelo Eastman, Washington University in St. Louis

2. Comparative Slaveholder Ethnology in Latin America vs Anglo-America: Enlightenment Race Science, Slavery, and the Parsing of Enslaved Africans by Ethnic Heritage in Latin and Anglo America, Philip Kadish

3. Cuba’s Military Commission and the Slave Rebellion of 1825, Andres Pletch

Saturday, May 28, 9:45 to 11:15am

Situating Slavery in Colonial Latin America Organizer: Stephanie L. Kirk, Washington University Chair: Stephanie L. Kirk, Washington University This interdisciplinary workshop brings together a group of literary studies scholars as well as historians to discuss two broad topics related to slavery and its representation in colonial Latin America. Panelists will frame their remarks around two broad topics: 1) their current work and how it relates to the development of the field. 2) their methodology and the tools and challenges it presents. Presenters:

1. Larissa Brewer García, University of Chicago 2. Anna H. More, Universidade de Brasilia 3. Sherwin K. Bryant, Northwestern University 4. Rachel S. O’Toole, University of California Irvine 5. David Kazanjinan, University of Pennsylvania

Latin American Archive Stories Organizer: Zeb J. Tortorici, New York University Chair: Kirsten A. Weld, Harvard University This workshop explores researchers' experiences navigating archives and archival systems of classification in Latin America. From multiple disciplinary perspectives, we will discuss how we, as scholars, interact personally and collectively with archives, documents, oral narratives, ephemera, and finding aids, focusing on the stakes of knowledge production and the politics of historical memory. Drawing on participants’ diverse research agendas spanning the colonial period to the present, topics of discussion will include the politics of archival access, personal subjectivity and relationships with archivists, collection and preservation practices, digitization, non-textual sources, and archival activism. Presenters:

1. Amalia Cordova, New York University

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2. Robin Lauren H. Derby, University of California Los Angeles 3. Henrique Espada Rodrigues Lima Filho, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 4. Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College 5. Danielle L. Terrazas Williams, Oberlin College 6. Kenneth C. Ward, John Carter Brown Library

Space, Place, and Mapping in Colonial Contexts Organizer: Kelly S. McDonough, University of Texas at Austin Chair: Kelly S. McDonough, University of Texas at Austin

Cultural geographer Doreen Massey has proposed the concept of space as an always-under-construction and contemporaneously plural sphere born of and propelled by interactions and exchanges. This interdisciplinary panel seeks papers that focus on the ways in which colonial spaces were/are constituted, represented, and changed by heterogeneous peoples (and other sentient beings), practices, and ideas. Of particular interest are papers that include colonial cultures and epistemologies in contact; and simultaneous and/or dissonant alphabetic and visual (in the broadest sense) assertions of domination, subordination, negotiation, and appropriation of place and imaginary past and present.

1. Tracking the Archbishop: Draft Cartography and the Construction of Pedro Cortés y Larraz’s Descripción geográfico-moral de la diócesis de Goathemala (1768-1770), William George Lovell, Queen’s University

2. Unraveling the Bundle: Quinilli as Cosmology, Molly Bassett, Georgia Sate University

3. Those Who Drew No Maps: Indigenous Territorialities and the Making of the Rio de la Plata, Jeffrey A. Erbig, University of New Mexico

4. Social Contact in the Fringes of the Empire: The Port City of Cartagena de Indias in the 18th Century, Mariselle Meléndez, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Saturday, May 28, 12:45 to 2:15pm

Revisitando las instituciones coloniales Chair: Genny Negroe, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán

1. Cambios en las funciones del cabildo colonial de Mérida, Yucatán, durante el siglo XVIII, Genny Negroe, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán

2. Discovered! Misión Santa Catalina de Guale, Georgia (1566), Northernmost Outpost of Spanish Empire, Gary D. Keller, Arizona State University

3. El Cabildo de la Ciudad de Mérida, Yucatán, y la Ordenanza de Intendentes de 1786, Pilar Zabala, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán

4. Estudio de la Naturaleza de la Encomienda y Empresas de la Familia Belalcázar, (1600-1630), Ángel Luis Toman Tamez, Pontificia Universidad Javieriana

5. “Fire not properly extinguished spreads forever:” Tribute and Indigenous Politics after the Revolution of 1780, David Klassen

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Spatial practices and their visual representation in colonial and modern Mexico Chair: Ana Pulido, University of Arkansas Discussant: Barbara E. Mundy, Fordham University This panel examines the role of visual sources in legal struggles over land and water from various periods of Mexican history, ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The diachronic approach highlights how a wide range of Mexican communities have negotiated with colonial and national authorities over legal definitions of the land. The papers underscore how maps, photographs, and lithographs are central to these legal claims as they not only represent but also challenge and critique the spatial re-organization of territory.

1. Between Campesino and State: Photography, Rurality, and Citizenship in Post-Revolutionary Mexico, Robin Adele Greeley, University of Connecticut

2. The Coatlinchan Palimpsests: Uses of Land Grant Maps in Colonial Mexico, Ana Pulido, University of Arkansas

3. Washerwoman, World Heritage, and Water: Spaces of Modernity and Tradition in Xochimilco and Mexico City, Stacie G. Widdifield, University of Arizona, and Jeffrey Banister, University of Arizona-Southwest Center; School of Geography and Development


Chris Schmidt-Nowara in Memoriam (1966-2015): Pioneer of Atlantic Empire and

Antislavery Studies Chair: Arnaldo Cruz-Malave, Fordham University This panel discusses and honors the pioneering legacy and contribution to Atlantic studies of empire and antislavery movements of our recently deceased distinguished LASA member Chris Schmidt-Nowara, Prince of Asturias Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization at Tufts University at the time of his death and former Magiis Professor at Fordham University. “Starting with his dissertation on Spanish abolitionism, which later became Empire and Antislavery: Spain, Cuba And Puerto Rico 1833-1874 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999), all of Chris’s work sits,” as Prof. Ada Ferrer of NYU asserts, “at the intersection of European and American history, Atlantic from its conception long before that was fashionable.” He would go on to publish Slavery, Freedom and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World (University of New Mexico Press, 2011), which was selected by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries as one of the year’s outstanding academic titles, and Slavery and Antislavery in Spain’s Atlantic Empire (Berghahn Books, 2013). “A truly Atlantic scholarly work,” Prof. Yuko Miki of Fordham confirms, this “superb book, with which I always begins my course ‘Slavery & Freedom in the Atlantic World,’ elegantly and concisely lays out the Iberian precedents … of slavery in the modern world, thus challenging readers to move beyond the familiar confines of the U.S. and Britain.” A distinguished group of scholars who specialize in Latin American, American and Atlantic Studies will discuss and honor Prof. Schmidt-Nowara’s pioneering contribution to Atlantic studies: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, Benjamin Carp, Associate Professor and Daniel M.

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Lyons Chair of History at Brooklyn College, Geraldo Cadava, Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University, and Barbara Mundy, Professor of Art History at Fordham University. Presenters

1. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin 2. Geraldo L. Cadava, Northwestern University 3. Benjamin L. Carp, Brooklyn College CUNY 4. Barbara E. Mundy, Fordham University


Epic and Revolutions: Helen Maria Williams' Poetics of Peru Organizers: Emily Rohrbach, Northwestern, University of Manchester, UK; Laura M Leon-Llerena, Northwestern University Chair: Emily Rohrbach, Northwestern, University of Manchester, UK Following the recent publication (2015) of the first scholarly edition of Helen Maria Williams’ epic poems Peru (1786) and Peruvian Tales (1823), edited by Paula Feldman, this panel has invited scholars to join a discussion of these newly accessible poems. Panelists will critically engage with the poems from multiple perspectives: 1) Williams' adaptation of European historiography (Feldman), 2) the relevance of Williams' epic to British missionary debates (Moskal), 3) Williams' representation of native Andeans contrasted with Spanish conquistadors and the relevance of that contrast for revolutionary thought of the early nineteenth century (Leon Llerena), and 4) the relevance of Williams' epic for contemporary Bolivian politics (Damian).

1. Williams’ Use of History in Peru, Paula R. Feldmen, University of South Carolina,

Paula R. Feldman, University of South Carolina 2. The British Missionary Context of H. M. William’s Peru (1786), Jeanne Moskal,

Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 3. The Revolutionary weight of the past: the political role of the Incas in Williams’ epic

poetry, Laura M. Leon-Llerena, Northwestern University 4. Conquest and Possession: Helen Maria Williams’ Peru (1784), Environmentalism and

Latin America’s New Colonialism, Jessica Damian, Independent Scholar

Representing Slavery, Representing Blackness: Racialized Colonial Histories of the

Spanish Antilles, from the 16th Century Up to the Early-20th Century Organizer: Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles, State University of New York Binghamton Chair: Gladys M. Jiménez Muñoz, SUNY - Binghamton This panel will examine the racial politics of how Blackness has been experienced, made sense of, and challenged in visual representation, images, writing and narratives in the Caribbean from Colonial Times to the early- 20th century.

1. Black Women in Sixteenth Century La Española (1502-1606): Historiographical and Archival Representations, Lissette Acosta-Corniel, Hamilton College

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2. African Descent and the Visual Narratives of Properties Rule in Puerto Rico, 1760-1800, Kelvin A Santiago-Valles, State University of New York, Binghamton

3. Appropriating “Blackness” Through Rearticulating Material Processes and Social Relations of Production within the Built Environment of Cuban Slavery, 1820-1866, Reynaldo Ortiz-Minaya, Hamilton College -Department of Africana Studies

4. “Nuestras favoritas Negritas:” Racializing Womanhood in Early Twentieth Century Puerto Rico, Gladys M Jimenez Muñoz, SUNY Binghamton

Sunday, May 29, 8:00 to 9:30am

Piracy and Colonial Identities I Organizer: María Gracia Ríos, Yale University Chair: Mariana Velázquez, Columbia University Transnational debates have transformed homogeneous views of places and cultures in our present global-age, and in turn, they have contributed to reexamine notions of agency and geography in the Early Modern period. The study of European piracy in Spanish-American territories unveils the limitations of employing static categories of space and identity during this era, for it shows complex transatlantic networks based on contraband, maritime predation and power struggles. This two-part series of panels respond to LASA 2016 conference theme “LASA at 50” by delving into the effects of piracy in the construction and development of Spanish-American identities and discussing the formation of fluid communities in Colonial Latin America. The nine papers featured here present different perspectives on this subject, in a broad geographical spectrum, by analyzing the appropriations and definitions of piracy within the colonial discourse. The first panel (program track: Literary Studies—Colonial and 19th century) examines representations of piracy in colonial Latin American literature, and the second (program track: History and Historiography) addresses specific piratical assaults in the Spanish Pacific and the Caribbean by revisiting historical primary sources and exploring their role in forging Spanish-American identities.

1. Piracy as Perverse Pensamiento in the Epics of Imperial Spain, Jason McCloskey, Bucknell University

2. Knowledge, Contraband & Predation in Coastal Central America in Early Colonial Travel Narratives: The case of Moskitia and Cimarrón populations, J. Manuel Gómez, Iona College

3. The Araucanian Loot: Heretics and Renegades against the Spanish Empire, María Gracia Ríos, Yale University

4. Piracy and Mobility: Fictional Spatial Practices and Identities in the Caribbean, Mariana Velázquez, Columbia University

5. Piracy against the Scarce Spanish Presence in the 16th Century Philippines: Accounts and Consequences of the Chinese and Dutch Attacks, Anthony G. Hessenthaler, Indiana University, University of Michigan

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Sunday, May 29, 9:45 to 11:15am

Piracy and Colonial Identities II Organizer: Mariana Velázquez, Columbia University Chair: María Gracia Ríos, Yale University Transnational debates have transformed homogeneous views of places and cultures in our present global-age, and in turn, they have contributed to reexamine notions of agency and geography in the Early Modern period. The study of European piracy in Spanish-American territories unveils the limitations of employing static categories of space and identity during this era, for it shows complex transatlantic networks based on contraband, maritime predation and power struggles. This two-part series of panels respond to LASA 2016 conference theme “LASA at 50” by delving into the effects of piracy in the construction and development of Spanish-American identities and discussing the formation of fluid communities in Colonial Latin America. The nine papers featured here present different perspectives on this subject, in a broad geographical spectrum, by analyzing the appropriations and definitions of piracy within the colonial discourse. The first panel (program track: Literary Studies—Colonial and 19th century) examines representations of piracy in colonial Latin American literature, and the second (program track: History and Historiography) addresses specific piratical assaults in the Spanish Pacific and the Caribbean by revisiting historical primary sources and exploring their role in forging Spanish-American identities.

1. Smugglers, bishops, scholars, and the evolution of a pirate story from the 17th century New Kingdom of Granada, Leonardo Moreno-Alvárez, Graduate Student

2. Changing the Old World Order: Piracy, Crime, and the Creation of “American” Identities in the 18th century, Amanda J. Snyder, Central Florida University

3. Piratas para Las Galápagos y Las Galápagos para piratas, Sabrina Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Sunday, May 29, 12:45 to 2:15pm

Raza, criollismo e identidad en los siglos XVIII y XIX Chair: Rubén A Sánchez-Godoy, Southern Methodist University

1. Construyendo la insurrección: criollos, chapetones y plebeyos en la Rebelión de los Barrios de Quito, 1765, Estefanía Flores, Tulane University

2. Poetas esclavos en el siglo XIX cubano, Yansert Fraga, León, AHS 3. Rebel Identities in the Caste War Novels of the Mexican Southeast, Sarah M. West,

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 4. Simón Bolívar y el problema colonial / post colonial de las castas, Rubén A. Sánchez-

Godoy, Southern Methodist University

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Atlantic and Latin American History Spanished: A Tribute to Christopher Schmidt-

Nowara Chair: Dale Tomich

Comprised of junior scholars from various US universities, this panel honors Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’s groundbreaking scholarship on the histories of antislavery, empire, and political thought in the Spanish Atlantic. The papers build on themes developed in Schmidt-Nowara’s influential monographs—Empire and Antislavery (1999) and Conquest of History (2006)—to probe new connections between Spain and the Americas, from the late-eighteenth through the late-twentieth centuries. We are concerned with questions relating to scale of analysis, colonialism and sovereignty in the Caribbean, and trans-Atlantic modes (magazines and theater) of political exchange. In different ways, we reiterate the importance of Spanish colonial history to Atlantic and Latin American studies. These new works are deeply indebted to Chris’s intellectual support and friendship over many years.

1. Empire and Civil Rights in Franco’s Spain: Transatlantic and global comparisons in Cuadernos para el diálogo, 1963-1974, Louie Dean Valencia García, Fordham University

2. Dominican Rebellion and the Crisis of Spanish Slavery, Ann Eller, Yale University 3. Questions of Scale: Spain, Spanish America, and the Atlantic World in the World of

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Elena A Schneider, University of California, Berkeley 4. Divergent Reflections on Colonialism and Nationalism in the Nineteenth-Century

Hispanic World, Dalia A. Muller, University at Buffalo 5. The Spanish Origins of Uncle Tom’s Cabin Theater in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

City, Celso T Castilho, Vanderbilt University


Blackness and Identity in the Early Modern Andean-Atlantic Chair: Michelle A McKinley, University of Oregon Paul Gilroy’s evocative phrase, the Black Atlantic elides the important role of the Pacific Rim in the slave experience, and in Diaspora studies more generally. Papers in this panel explore colonial blackness in the early modern world, with a focus on newly-arrived Africans in Lima, Ecuador, and Cartagena. The panelists examine the role of African interpreters in evangelization and cultural production, the unstable networks of brigands and petty criminals in Lima, the presence of African descent peoples in Pacific circuits of trade, piracy and travel, and the alternative, intertwined cartographies of enslaved and maroon communities in Cartagena.

1. Que desde la Media Luna llevaron unos negros al Palenque: Runaway Mobility and the Geography of Seventeenth Century Cartagena de Indias, Ana M. Silva

2. Bozales, Ladinos, Chalones y Lenguas: The Black Interpreters of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to Spanish America, Larissa Brewer García, University of Chicago

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3. Standing on Shaky Ground: Claiming Ecclesiastical Immunity in Seventeenth-Century Lima: 1600-1699, Michelle A. McKinley, University of Oregon

4. The Predicament of Colonial Blackness in the South Sea, Sherwin K. Bryant, Northwestern University

Conflitos pela mão-de-obra indígena na América Portuguesa e Império do Brasil: séculos

XVI a XIX Organizer: André A. Machado, Professor Este painel tem como objetivo destacar a importância da mão de obra indígena na história da América Portuguesa e do Império do Brasil, entre os séculos XVI e XIX. Reunindo pesquisas que tem como foco regiões do Brasil do extremo norte ao sul, assim como a amplidão de quatro séculos, o painel demonstra que os braços indígenas não foram importantes apenas em uma fase inicial da ocupação européia e tampouco seu emprego esteve restrito a regiões de menor dinamismo econômico. Os conflitos aqui descritos, sejam armados ou disputas pelo estabelecimento de marcos legais, demonstram como este era uma tema sensível.

1. Trabalho Compulsório dos Índios Aldeados no Rio de Janeiro Colonial: conflitos e

acordos, Maria R. Almeida 2. Exploração da mão de obra indígena no Império do Brasil: projetos e realidades

(1820-1840), Fernanda Sposito, Unicamp 3. Uma "guerra de raças" na Amazônia do século XIX? A Cabanagem e o conflito pelo

controle da mão de obra indígena no Império do Brasil, André A. Machado, Professor

Archivo y discurso colonial en los bordes del imperio Organizer: Valeria Añón, Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET Chair: Esperanza López Parada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Discussant: Paul P. Firbas, State University of New York/Stony Brook

1. Mujeres cronistas en los márgenes del Archivo americano; Valeria Añón, Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET

2. Los límites del discurso. Espacio y relato en el Río de la Plata (Siglo XVI): Loreley R. El Jaber, Universidad de Buenos Aires

3. La escritura límite de la Amazonía: Gaspar de Carvajal y sus conexiones con otros cronistas de la selva: Kim M. Beauchesne, University of British Columbia

4. De Islas, Estrechos y Penínsulas: California y la geografía del deseo: Jimena N. Rodríguez, UCLA

5. Teatro y poder en los márgenes de la ciudad colonial o de cómo festejar al poderoso desde los arrabales: Judith J. Farré, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

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Intervenciones institucionales: vulnerabilidad, sujetos y escritura coloniales Chair: Ana María Díaz-Burgos, Oberlin College Si bien los periodos de coerción institucional durante la época colonial produjeron textos que exponen la vulnerabilidad del sujeto intervenido—como confesiones, peticiones legales, autobiografías, diatribas filosóficas, teológicas o históricas—, también revelan su capacidad de reformularse para intentar evadir, minimizar, o desafiar el peso de la normatividad que los restringía. Este panel explora diversas instancias de estas reformulaciones que se presentan en las intersecciones entre prácticas institucionales y escritura. Las ponencias que lo componen prestan particular interés a las estrategias utilizadas por sujetos textuales para reapropiarse de los sistemas legales, sociales o religiosos que los coartaban.

1. Los tiempos cambian: Un análisis del calendario Tovar, Dulce Aldama, University of Colorado Boulder

2. Desorden en el convento: Refugio, confesión y hechicería a comienzos del siglo XVII en Cartagena de Indias, Ana María Díaz-Burgos, Oberlin College

3. The Criminal, Ecclesiastical, and Civil Cases of Fernando de Montesinos from Seventeenth-Century Peru, Nathan J. Gordon, Brigham Young University


Colonial Section - Business Meeting Business meeting for the colonial section.

Meeting of Editors and Friends of Latin American Perspectives Meeting of editors and friends of Latin American Perspectives. This event is intended to network with fellow editors and friends, as well as organize attendance to various panels and events taking place at LASA 2016.

Monday, May 30, 8:00 to 9:30am

Indigenous Voices in Colonial Mesoamerica Chair: Jessica L. Criales, Rutgers Given the fact that archives and textual production in the colonial period advanced the interests of the colonial state, how can we look for indigenous voices and viewpoints within them? How can we recover lived experiences intentionally ignored by colonial authorities? This panel presents close readings of texts including conquistadors’ chronicles, death records, and letters from nuns to discover indigenous perspectives that have been muted by the colonial records. Focusing on the histories of Pipil, Nahua, Mixtec, and Zapotec peoples, these documents reveal indigenous understandings of religion, conversion, ethnic identity, advocacy, disease, and death in colonial Mesoamerica.

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1. Learning to Listen: Singing and Religious Conversations with the Pipil in a 16th Century Chronicle, Scott R. Cave, Penn State University

2. “No one’s child died today": A Nahua Record of Epidemic Death, 1619-1640, Tara Malanga

3. Unspoken connections: Intertribal collaboration and the cacicas’ convent of Oaxaca, Mexico, 1741-1850, Jessica L. Criales, Rutgers

Chronicles of Indies and Early Modern Science Organizer: Jaime Marroquín Arredonado, Western Oregon University Chair: Carlos A. Jaúregui, University of Notre Dame Discussant: Carlos A. Jaúregui, University of Notre Dame As established by recent scholarship, the so-called Scientific Revolution was a gradual and collective process of information exchange in the new transoceanic contexts. A key component of the beginnings of early modern science and epistemologies were the complex gathering and ‘translation’ of Amerindian knowledges to European conceptual and formal models. Early modern natural history, in particular, cannot be understood without an analysis of the ‘ethnographic’ practices developed both sides of the Atlantic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Latin American and postcolonial critical and historiographical studies have analyzed the epistemological limits and problems of the transcultural exchange of knowledge between Amerindian and European “savants.” It should not be understood, however, that these limits implied an absolute inter-cultural communication failure. The heterogeneous knowledge that Europeans gained during the so-called Age of Discovery was often the product of diverse and highly complex translation processes of non-Western knowledge into Western contexts. The extent of Amerindian agency and the impact of Iberian ethnographic methodologies and historiographical practices for the development of early modern sciences are our main lines of inquiry. We analyze transcultural knowledge-production practices involved in the production and dissemination of the so-called “chronicles of Indies.”

1. Early natural science as cultural translations: the ‘ethnographic’ practices of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo’s ‘Historia general y natural de las Indias,’ Jaime Marroquín Arredonado, Western Oregon University

2. ‘On the word of the most trustworthy men’: Dr. Francisco Hernández and the chroniclers of Indies, Iris Montero Sobrevilla

3. Dutch ‘translations’ of 16th century Iberian chronicles of Indies, Angélica Morales-Sarabia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Monday, May 30, 9:45 to 11:15am

Coloniality, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Caribbean: Contributions, Productive

Intersections and Challenges Organizer, Yolanda M. Martínez-San Miguel, The State University of New Jersey Chair: Anjali Nerlekar, RutgersUNiversity Discussant: George Ciccariello-Maher, Drexel University

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In this panel we will discuss how Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies provide different frameworks for the study of Caribbean history and culture. How are each of these approaches useful, and what are the specific questions that they make possible? How can we connect the Spanish Caribbean with the Anglo and French Caribbeans using the colonial, postcolonial and decolonial debates as a point of departure? The session includes papers that study the 16th and 17th centuries colonial period in the Spanish Caribbean, texts that address the postcolonial and decolonial periods in the Caribbean, and papers that connect the Spanish, Anglo and French Caribbeans using colonial contexts and experiences to discuss how different theoretical frameworks have become useful for the study of this region from the 16th century until the contemporary period.

1. Duelo de Teorias/Theory Duel?: Post(De)Colonial Theories in Relation, Yomaira C.

Figueroa, Michigan State University 2. Caribbean Apocalypse: Imagining the End of the Modern/Colonial World in Junot

Diaz’s “Monstro” Carolyn Urena 3. Colonial Geo-graphing: Reasserting the Place of Space in Caribbean Studies, Santa

Arias, University of Kansas 4. Beyond National Bounds, the Indo-Caribbean, Anjali Nerlekar, RutgersUNiversity 5. From Alienation to Revolution: Puerto Rican Coloniality and the Decolonial Option

in J.L. Torres’ The Accidental Native, Consuelo Martínez-Reyes, Australian National University

Monday, May 30, 12:45 to 2:15pm

Rethinking Space and Agency in the Crónica de Indias Chair: Sarah H. Beckjord, Boston College

1. Document and Performance in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo’s Nicaraguan Chronicles, Sarah H. Beckjord, Boston College

2. Journey to the Galapagos: the Rhetorical Genesis of Paradise, Esteban Mayorga, Niagara University

3. Who are you calling 'caribe'? Language, Landscape, and Imposed Identity in Northern New Spain, Rebecca Carte

Hidden In Plain Sight: Text to Image / Image to Text in Ancient and Colonial Mexico Chair: William L. Barnes, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota Before the arrival of Europeans, native Mexican artists, scribes, and patrons encoded within their visual and written material their beliefs, aspirations, and histories. This process continued into the colonial era, where alphabetic texts grew steadily in significance at the expense of the visual and glyphic traditions. This session explores the relationship between text, image, and motivation in the visual, written, and oral histories of ancient and colonial Mexico, focusing, in particular, on the reciprocal and occasionally contentious relationship of text and image.

1. Considerations on Materiality of the Text, Victoria I. Lyall, San Francisco State University

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2. Rediscovering the Hidden City: Tlatelolco in Aztec Art and History William L. Barnes, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

3. The Two Moteuczomas: Text-Image Soundscapes, Patrick T. Hajovsky, Southwestern University

4. Revealing the Hidden Agendas of the Relación de Michoacán’s Collaborators in the Tension between Its Text and Images, Angelica J. Afanador-Pujol


Remapping Blackness in the Atlantic and Pacific Worlds Chair: Mark A Sanders, Emory University

1. Recontando a história negra no interior de São Paulo Valquiria P Tenorio, IFSP-Campus Matao Edmundo A. Oliveira, UNIARA

2. La memoria histórica en cuatro personajes femeninos negros de Capá Prieto de Yvonne Denis Rosario, Rebecca Carrero, Universidad de Puerto Rico/Rio Piedras

3. José Isabel Herrera and His Black Mambises: Narrating Race in the Early Cuban Republic, Mark A Sanders, Emory University

4. ‘[They] proved to be very good sailors’: Black Captives and Collaborators in the South Sea during the Age of Piracy, Tamara J. Walker, University of Pennsylvania

5. The Image of the "Negro" in the Modern History of Peru, Luis M. Gómez Acuña, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú


Rethinking Politics in the Global Spanish Empire. Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries Organizers: Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, Yale University; Juan Carlos De Orellana Sánchez, University of Texas at Austin Chair: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas/Austin How was politics conceptualized and negotiated in the Spanish empire? Drawing on case-studies from the Philippines, Peru, New Granada, and theoretical debates over the state of the empire, this panel discusses how the Spanish monarchy redesigned its political structure to expand to the New World and how the Indies in turn redefined the meaning of empire from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. The panel aims to rethink how politics worked in the Spanish empire by illustrating the mutually-constitutive dialogue at the “local” and “imperial” levels, and by revisiting the dynastic change as a radical turnaround in governance.

1. Making Indians, Making Empire. Negotiating Institutions in the Sixteenth Century

New Kingdom of Granada, Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, Yale University 2. Limiting the Inquisition and Creating a Kingdom. Defining Institutional Boundaries

in the Seventeenth Century Viceroyalty of Peru, Juan Carlos De Orellana Sánchez, University of Texas at Austin

3. The Invention of the Spanish Commercial Empire, c. 1740-1762, Fidel Tavárez 4. Re-inscribing the Chinese ‘Other’ in the Spanish Philippines, c.1764-1780, Kristie P.

Flannery, Univ. of Texas at Austin

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5. La población libre de origen africano y la construcción local del estado en la Nueva Granada, S. XVIII, Katherine Bonil Gómez, The Johns Hopkins University


Imperial Policies and Politics: Continuing Debates in the History of Brazil Chair: Judy A. Bieber, University of New Mexico Discussant: Roderick J. Barman Perpetual debate, rather than consensus, was the driving force behind laws and policies approved in the Brazilian Empire (1822-1889). Stemming from civil law tradition, Brazilian legal development largely derived from the deliberative dynamics of a parliamentary-styled system that subjected bills to deep if prolonged scrutiny. Yet in spite of this fact so familiar to historians of Brazil, many scholars portray 19th-century lawmaking as belonging to a non-descript, cohesive “elite” with an outsize causal historical power. Compounding this shortcoming is the fact that, rather than assess the social, political and economic conditions that underwrote the making of specific laws, historians often resort to the categories of “success or failure” to evaluate legal impact. This panel intends to address these problems by returning to four legal landmarks in the history of Imperial Brazil with the aim of providing new narratives and questions about their conditions of emergence: the “Lei Feijó” of 1831, the 1850 Land Law, the 1860 “Law of Impediments” and the Free Birth Law of 1871. Following relatively recent studies on patronage, factionalism and party formation to advance new social history approaches centering on inter-elite conflict and emergent perspectives from business history, the panel will also open a conversation about the centrality of archival innovation and critical revisionism in analyzing the political history of Brazil.

1. Brazil and the Brazilian Slave Trade Between Two Global Swings, 1831-1850, Tâmis Parron

2. Beyond Latifundia and Fazendeiros: Toward a History of the 1850 Land Law that Does Not End with Coffee Barons, José Juan J. Pérez Meléndez, University of Chicago

3. The Law of Impediments (1860): Polarization and Economic Policy in Imperial Brazil, Bruna I. Dourado, Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF

4. International Dimensions of the Brazilian Free Birth Law (1871) Rodrigo Goyena Soares, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)

Resources American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE) Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura

Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH) Asociación para el Fomento de los Estudios

Históricos en Centroamérica (AFEHC) Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) Association for Latin American Art (ALAA) América Latina Portal Europeo

Blog IguAnalista College Art Association (CAA) Colonial Latin America on the MLA Commons Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers

(CLAG) Guatemala Scholars Network, and weekly GSN

newsletter

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Hispanic American Historical Review Online Community

Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI)

Josiah, the online catalog of the John Carter Brown Library

LASA Colonial Section on Facebook (public page) LASA Colonial Section on Facebook (closed group) LASA Colonial Website LASA Colonial Member List Latin American Library at Tulane University Newberry Library Digital Resources Portal Europeo REDIAL CEISAL

“Los Primeros Libros” project Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

(RMCLAS) Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and

Publishing (SHARP) Society for Latin American and Caribbean

Anthropology (SLACA) Society for Textual Scholarship (STS) Spanish Paleography Digital Teaching and Learning

Tool World Digital Library

About the Colonial Section of LASA and Colonia/Colônia The Colonial Section of LASA is a forum where those who study the colonial period in Latin America come together across disciplinary boundaries to share information and exchange ideas. The section was formed in the fall of 2012 and currently has over 140 active members in the United States and abroad. The 2015-2016 section officers are Raúl Marrero-Fente, University of Minnesota (chair); Mónica Díaz, University of Kentucky (vice-chair and chair of awards committee); Pablo García Loaeza, West Virginia University (council member and secretary/treasurer); Kelly McDonough, University of Texas at Austin (council member); and Ann de León, University of Alberta (council member). Clayton McCarl, University of North Florida, is the section’s communications manager. Nathan James Gordon, University of Colorado Boulder, coordinates our use of social media, and Caroline Egan, Stanford University, manages our membership information and e-mail list.

Colonia/Colônia is the quarterly newsletter of the Colonial Section. The editorial staff consists of Pablo García Loaeza, West Virginia University (editor); Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University (assistant editor); Claudia Berríos, Michigan State University; Chloe Ireton, University of Texas at Austin; and Mariana Velázquez, Columbia University (graduate student assistant editors); Clayton McCarl, University of North Florida (editorial advisor). Issues are published in February, May, August and November. Submissions are due by the 15th of the month prior to publication.

Members are encouraged to contribute any material that may be of relevance to scholars of the colonial world. In particular, we invite submissions to the following sections:

Member Publications. Current members of the Colonial Section are encouraged to send the full citations of material published within the previous calendar year (Chicago author-date style preferred) to Mariana Velázquez, mv2447[at]columbia.edu. In the case of books, authors may include a brief summary (100-words maximum), a link to further information, and a cover image, to be included at the editors’ discretion and as space allows.

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Colonial Forum. This section is a space for the expression of ideas and opinions related to our field in the form of “letters to the editor.” Materials should be sent to Pablo.Garcia[at]mail.wvu.edu.

Spotlight on the Archives highlights repositories with collections of interest to scholars in our field. To suggest institutions to be profiled in future issues, please contact Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, quispeag[at]msu.edu.

Graduate Student News is a space for sharing information for and about PhD candidates engaged in the study of colonial Latin America from within any discipline. Graduate students are not required to be section members to participate. Material should be sent to Claudia Berríos, berriosc[at]msu.edu.

All of the abovementioned sections are included on an occasional basis, as determined by member submissions and editorial discretion.

Listings or summaries of conference sessions should be submitted to Chloe Ireton, c.ireton[at]utexas.edu.

Calls for papers, awards and distinctions, and any other material should be sent to Pablo García Loaeza, Pablo.Garcia[at]mail.wvu.edu.

Colonia/Colônia does not sell advertising or include general book announcements on behalf of publishers. However, we are always happy to include in “Member Publications” listings for books written or edited by section members.

Previous issues of Colonia/Colônia can be accessed on the Colonial Section website.

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