Seminar leader: María Elena Martínez, USC
2014-2015
February 6, 2014
Peter Sigal, Duke University
“Sacrifice, Sin, and Sex: Observation and Ethnography in Sixteenth-Century New Spain”
Masterclass: Sex and Method
March 28, 2014
David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
“Archives for the Future: A Case for Over-Reading”
2011-2012
November 17, 2011
Adam Warren, University of Washington
“A Matter of Faith: Popular Religiosity and the Politics of Medical Reform in Bourbon Peru”
March 9, 2012
Workshop on Race in Colonial Latin America: the State of the Field
Katherine J. Burns, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
María Elena Martínez, USC
David Sartorius, University of Maryland
2010-2011
November 12, 2010
Jesusa Rodríguez
“Primero Sueño”, by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
February 3, 2011
Walter Mignolo, Duke University
“Theodore de Bry and Guaman Poma de Ayala: Crossing Gazes and the ‘Silence’ of the Indians”
February 4, 2011
Walter Mignolo, Duke University
Masterclass: “On the Geopolitics of Knowing/Understanding and Sensing: Aesthetics and Epistemology/Hermeneutics”
2009-2010
October 1, 2009
James Sweet, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Beyond Slavery: Africanizing Iberian Atlantic History”
October 24, 2009
Lisa Voigt, The Ohio State University
“‘Nos pretos como ne prelo’: The Black Brotherhood of the Rosary and Festival Accounts in Brazil”
February 11, 2010
Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University
“The Lost History of Afro-Yucatan”
2006-2007
September 28, 2006
Irene M. Silverblatt, Duke University
“Modern Inquisitions: Peru & the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World”
October 28, 2006
María Elena Martínez, USC
“The Purity of Whiteness: Concepts of Blood, Color, and Race in New Spain”
Ann Twinam, University of Texas, Austin
“The Purchase of Whiteness: Pardo Strategies for Upward Mobility in Colonial Spanish America”
November 30, 2006
David Sartorius, Whittier College
“The Price of Integrity: Race, Empire, and Loyalty in Late Colonial Peru”
January 13, 2007
Michelle J. Molina, University of California, Irvine
“The Will and the Flesh: Spiritual Technologies of the Self in the 18th Century”
February 2, 2007
Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto
“Outside In: Diego de Ocaña’s Long Journey Home, 1599-1608”
William B. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
“Short Journeys to Sacred Places: Devotional Landscapes and Circulation in Colonial Mexico”
February 23, 2007
Pamela Voekel, University of Georgia
“Holy Warrior: Gender, Religion, and Revolution in Mexico, 1750-1861”
2005-2006
October 22, 2005
Susan Deans-Smith, University of Texas, Austin, and Ilona Katzew, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
“Representing the Colonial Body in 18th Century Mexico”
November 11, 2005
Kathryn Burns, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Making Indigenous Archives: The Quilcay Camayoe of Colonial Cuzco”
November 22, 2005
Jaime Cuadriello, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
“Cortés as the American Moses: The Mural Writing of Patriotic History”
