Seminar Leaders:
Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside
Steven Hackel, University of California, Riverside
8th Annual Workshop: New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands
Friday, March 14, 2025
This workshop seeks to bring together advanced graduate students in the field of the Spanish Borderlands to bolster intellectual exchange and create community among graduate students and interested faculty working on similar or related topics. Successful workshop presentation proposals should highlight new and emerging research on the Spanish Borderlands and focus on some aspect of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, or related regions from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Participants
“Forbidding Fires: A Cultural and Legal History of California from the Missions to the Gold Rush”
“Quería Enseñar: Conversa Transmission, Memory, and Adaptation from Colonial Mexico to Contemporary New Mexico”
“The Racial Geographies of Monterrey in the 1850s”
“From Strangers to Kin: Inter-Ethnic Defiance in Early Colonial Puerto Rico (1514-1526)”
“At the Borders of the Spanish Caribbean: The Borderland Journey of Juan Rey”
“The Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Desert in Between”
Additional support offered by the the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, UC Riverside Department of History, and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Image: Millard Sheets, Mural for the Home of Fred H. and Bessie Ranke, 1934. Courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
