{"id":3329,"date":"2023-07-18T19:27:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/emsi\/?page_id=3329"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:52:16","slug":"borderlands-past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/seminar-series\/borderlands\/borderlands-past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands Past Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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2024-2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

March 14, 2025<\/strong>
\n8th Annual Workshop: New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marina del Cassio, Stanford University
\n“Forbidding Fires: A Cultural and Legal History of California from the Missions to the Gold Rush”<\/p>\n

Rachel Kaufman, UCLA
\n“Quer\u00eda Ense\u00f1ar: Conversa Transmission, Memory, and Adaptation from Colonial Mexico to Contemporary New Mexico”<\/p>\n

Hunter Moskowitz, Northeastern University
\n“The Racial Geographies of Monterrey in the 1850s”<\/p>\n

Sebasti\u00e1n M. Qui\u00f1ones, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
\n“From Strangers to Kin: Inter-Ethnic Defiance in Early Colonial Puerto Rico (1514-1526)”<\/p>\n

Eloy Romero-Blanco, University of Pittsburgh
\n“At the Borders of the Spanish Caribbean: The Borderland Journey of Juan Rey”<\/p>\n

Kai Werner, William & Mary
\n“The Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Desert in Between”<\/p>\n

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2023-2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

March 15, 2024<\/strong>
\nNew and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marco P\u00e9rez Ca\u00f1izares, Cornell University
\nGeorge Clay, Georgetown University
\nThomas Croisez, European University Institute
\nSokeyra Francisco, Yale University
\nBenjamin Groth, Tulane University
\nJamey Jesperson, University of Victoria
\nS. Shine Trabucco, University of Houston
\nCourtney Weis, Florida International University<\/p>\n

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2022-2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

March 17, 2023<\/strong>
\nNew and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Bland, University of Oklahoma
\nMary Casey, University of California, Riverside
\nJulia Frankenbach, University of California, Berkeley
\nAshford King, Princeton University
\nAnnabel LeBrecque, University of California, Berkeley
\nPiper Milton, University of California, Santa Cruz
\nChristopher Thrasher, Penn State<\/p>\n

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2021-2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, March 11th, 2022<\/b>
\n<\/b>New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nLeila Blackbird, University of Chicago<\/span>
\n<\/span>“\u2018It Has Always Been Customary to Make Slaves of Savages\u2019: The Problem of Indian Slavery in Spanish Louisiana Revisited, 1769-1803”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nTimothy Seiter, Southern Methodist University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Persistent Peoples: A History of the Karankawas of the Texas Gulf Coast”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nIsrael Leal Domiguez, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Curanderismo in the Borderlands, from Contact to the 19th century”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nRachel L.Sanderson, University of South Florida<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Baptism and Legitimacy in La Florida”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nWilliam Angus McLeod, University of Pennsylvania<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Catholic Schooling in Spanish and Mexican Texas, 1718-1836”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nEvan Daniel Suda, University of California, Riverside<\/span>
\n<\/span>“History Villa de Branciforte: The Malleable Frontier in Alta California”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJavier Etchegaray, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “\u201cEn el desamparo de los Bosques y de las distancias\u201d: The Social Ecology of the Chilo\u00e9 Archipelago during the Eighteenth Century”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJennifer Levin, University of Virginia<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Cautious Collaboration: Mobile\u2019s Invitation into Spanish Trade, 1702-1718”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

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2020\u20132021<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, September 18th, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/b>New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nCitlali Sosa, University of California, Los Angeles<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Californio Women and a Gendered Liberalism: The Catholic Church, Memory and Fear of Natives” <\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nElizabeth Rareshide, University of California, Santa Barbara<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Mind of a Missionary in Alta California: Investigating Fr. Ger\u00f3nimo Boscan’s Perspective on Juane\u00f1o Culture”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nCollin Rohrbaugh, Texas A&M University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Cactus and the Star: Mirabeau Lamar, New Mexico, and State Formation in the Republic of Texas”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJessica Fletcher, Vanderbilt University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Law, and Empire: A Hemispheric Approach to Spanish Borderlands in the Nineteenth Century”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJohn Paniagua, Princeton University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Roots and Routes of the Amerindian Antilles: Identifying Borderlands Indians in Colonial Cuba”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Online<\/span><\/p>\n

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2019\u20132020<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, March 13, 2020<\/b>
\n<\/b>Third Annual Graduate Student Workshop: New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nElizabeth Rareshide<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Mind of a Missionary in Alta California: Investigating Fr. Ger\u00f3nimo Boscan’s Perspective on Juane\u00f1o Culture”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJeremiah J. Sladeck<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Rubi, Gili, and the Temporialistas come to California, 1790-1794”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nDaniel Velasquez<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Louisiana Trading Nexus, 1770-1790”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nCollin Rohrbaugh<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Cactus and the Star: Mirabeau Lamar, New Mexico, and State Formation in the Republic of Texas”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJohn Paniagua<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Roots and Routes of the Amerindian Antilles: Identifying Borderlands Indians in Colonial Cuba”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nJessica Fletcher<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Transatlatic Slave Trade, Law, and Empire: A Hemispheric Approach to Spanish Borderlands in the Nineteenth Century”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nPhilippe Halbert<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Keeping [and Making] Up Appearances in Spanish Louisiana”<\/span>
\n<\/span>
\nCitlali Sosa<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Californio Women and a Gendered Liberalism: The Catholic Church, Memory and Fear of Natives”<\/span><\/p>\n

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2018-2019<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, March 15, 2019<\/b>
\n<\/b>New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nHayley Bowman, University of Michigan<\/span>
\nTess Evans, University of Tennessee, Knoxville<\/span>
\nLeonardo Falc\u00f3n, Florida International University<\/span>
\nJuneisy Quintana Hawkins, New York University<\/span>
\nPriscilla Martinez, University of California, Santa Cruz<\/span>
\nJennifer McCutchen, Texas Christian University<\/span>
\nNicholas Myers, Cornell University<\/span>
\nNaomi Sussman, Yale University<\/span>
\nChristina Villareal, University of Texas, Austin
\nJeremy Mikecz, USC
\nMargaret Pearce, Canadian-American Center, University of Maine
\nLisa Brooks, Amherst College
\nChristian A. Pappan, Kaw, Osage, Lakota Artist
\nWendy Giddens Teeter, Fowler Museum, UCLA
\nCraig Torres, Tongva Cultural Educator\/Artist
\nVotan Henriquez, Mayan, Naoa Artist
\nDesiree Renee Martinez, Tonga Archaeologist, Cogstone Resource Management
\nPamela Peters
\nSteven Wernke, Vanderbilt
\nJeffrey Erbig, University of California, Santa Cruz<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

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2017-2018<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, March 16, 2018<\/b>
\nNew and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nScott Cave, Penn State University<\/span>
\nJason Herbert, University of Minnesota<\/span>
\nAubrey Lauersdorf, University of North Carolina<\/span>
\nJulia Lewandoski, UC Berkeley<\/span>
\nAlan Malfav\u00f3n, UC Riverside<\/span>
\nHayley Negrin, New York University<\/span>
\nSkyler Reidy, University of Southern California<\/span>
\nAnna Toledano, Stanford University<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

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2016-2017<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, March 31, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/b>Andr\u00e9s Res\u00e9ndez, University of California, Davis<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Greatest Slave Revolt of the Southwest”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

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2014-2015<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

October 26, 2014<\/b>
\n<\/span>Toypurina<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nSteve Hackel, Professor of History, UC Riverside<\/span>
\nRebecca Kugel, Associate Professor of History, UC Riverside<\/span>
\nJames A. Sandos, Professor of History and Farquhar Professor of Southwest, University of Redlands<\/span>
\nJonathan Salisbury(Director and Playwright), and members of the cast<\/span>
\n<\/span>San Gabriel Mission Playhouse<\/span><\/p>\n

May 1, 2015<\/b>
\n<\/span>Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia<\/span>
\n<\/span>“West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

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2013-2014<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

September 20 & 21, 2013<\/b>
\nJun\u00edpero Serra: Context and Representation 1713 to 2013<\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nJohn W.I. Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
\n“Gender and Power in the West Anatolian Borderlands during the Achaemenid Period”<\/span><\/p>\n

Clara Bargellini, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and Pamela Huckins, independent scholar
\n“Jun\u00edpero Serra’s Tastes and the Art and Architecture of the California Missions”<\/p>\n

Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz, Santa Clara University
\n“Jun\u00edpero Serra’s Approach to the Native Peoples of the Californias”<\/p>\n

John Dagenais, University of California, Los Angeles
\n“Jun\u00edpero Serra’s Mallorcan Class Notes on Ramon Llull”<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Refugio de la Torre Curiel, Universidad de Guadalajara\/El Colegio de Jalisco
\n“Mission Government as a Franciscan Utopia in Northwestern New Spain, 1768-1794”<\/p>\n

David Rex Galindo, Stephen F. Austin State University
\n“The Colegio de Propaganda Fide de San Fernando: A Prelude to the Missionary Program in Alta California”<\/p>\n

Catherine Gudis, University of California, Riverside
\n“Contemporary Art and the Legacies of the California Missions”<\/p>\n

Steven Hackel, University of California, Riverside
\n“The Rock and the Crucifix: Jun\u00edpero Serra, Then and Now”<\/p>\n

Michael Komanecky, Farnsworth Art Museum
\n“Jun\u00edpero Serra and the California Mission Myth”<\/p>\n

Cynthia Lewis, Rio Hondo College
\n“Between Worlds: Jun\u00edpero Serra and the Paintings of Jose de Paez”<\/p>\n

Karen Melvin, Bates College
\n“Serra Among the Faithful: The Popular Mission”<\/p>\n

Antoni Picazo Muntaner, Universitat des les Iles Balears
\n“Father Jun\u00edpero’s Serra’s Education and Ideology”<\/p>\n

Anna Nogar, University of New Mexico
\n“Jun\u00edpero Serra’s Mission Muse: Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda and Her Writings”<\/p>\n

Matt O’Hara, University of California, Santa Cruz
\n“Mexico City in the Time of Serra”<\/p>\n

Josep Juan Vidal, Universitat de les Iles Balears
\n“The Geographical Setting where Father Jun\u00edpero Serra was Formed: Mallorca during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century”<\/p>\n

Huntington Library<\/p>\n

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2012-2013<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

December 1, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Internal Borderlands and Fragmented Communities of Northern Mexico: San Ildefonso de Ostimuri”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

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2011-2012<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 24, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Amy Turner Bushnell<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Climate, Habitat, and Food Security in the Indigenous Americas”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, May 5, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/b>Julia Sarreal, ASU<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Continuities and Ruptures in Native Bodies of Governance: Cacicazgos and the Guarani Missions, 1735-1801”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, May 11, 2012<\/b>
\n<\/span>David Rex Galindo, SMU<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Who Do They Want To Save?: Franciscan Missionary Motivations in New Spain’s Northern Borderlands”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

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2010-2011<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 26, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/b>Al Hurtado, University of Oklahoma<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cA Path Not Taken: Turner, Bolton, and the Borderland Frontier\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 8, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/span>Brian Delay, University of California, Berkeley<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Blood Talk: People and Peoples in the Navajo-New Mexican Borderland”<\/span>
\n<\/span>The Autry Museum<\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, April 29, 2011<\/b>
\n<\/span>Guadalupe Curiel Defoss\u00e9, Director of Mexico\u2019s Biblioteca Nacional and Hemeroteca Nacional<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Mexico’s Biblioteca Nacional and Hemeroteca Nacional: Collections and Opportunities for Research”<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

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2010-2011<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

January 22, 2010<\/strong>
\nAurora Gomez Galvarriato, Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n y Dorencia Econ\u00f3micas; Archivo General de la Naci\u00f3n de Mexico
\n“The Mexican National Archive: Its History and Its Future”<\/p>\n

March 5, 2010<\/strong>
\nJos\u00e9 Refugio de la Torre Curiel, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
\n“Undercover Foes: Apache Raids and Interethnic Alliances in the Transformation of Sonora’s Northern Frontier in the Late Colonial Period”<\/p>\n

May 8, 2010<\/strong>
\nPekka Hamalainen, University of California, Santa Barbara
\n“The Shapes of Power: Towards a Comparative History of North American Frontiers, Borderlands, and Empires”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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