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Seminar leader: Mar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez, USC<\/p>\n

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

February 6, 2014<\/strong>
\nPeter Sigal, Duke University
\n“Sacrifice, Sin, and Sex: Observation and Ethnography in Sixteenth-Century New Spain”
\nMasterclass: Sex and Method<\/p>\n

March 28, 2014<\/strong>
\nDavid Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
\n“Archives for the Future: A Case for Over-Reading”<\/p>\n

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

November 17, 2011<\/strong>
\nAdam Warren, University of Washington
\n“A Matter of Faith: Popular Religiosity and the Politics of Medical Reform in Bourbon Peru”<\/p>\n

March 9, 2012<\/strong>
\nWorkshop on Race in Colonial Latin America: the State of the Field<\/strong>
\nKatherine J. Burns, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
\nMar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez, USC
\nDavid Sartorius, University of Maryland<\/p>\n

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

November 12, 2010<\/strong>
\nJesusa Rodr\u00edguez
\n“Primero Sue\u00f1o”, by Sor Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz<\/p>\n

February 3, 2011<\/strong>
\nWalter Mignolo, Duke University
\n“Theodore de Bry and Guaman Poma de Ayala: Crossing Gazes and the ‘Silence’ of the Indians”<\/p>\n

February 4, 2011<\/strong>
\nWalter Mignolo, Duke University
\nMasterclass: “On the Geopolitics of Knowing\/Understanding and Sensing: Aesthetics and Epistemology\/Hermeneutics”<\/p>\n

2009-2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 1, 2009<\/strong>
\nJames Sweet, University of Wisconsin, Madison
\n“Beyond Slavery: Africanizing Iberian Atlantic History”<\/p>\n

October 24, 2009<\/strong>
\nLisa Voigt, The Ohio State University
\n“‘Nos pretos como ne prelo’: The Black Brotherhood of the Rosary and Festival Accounts in Brazil”<\/p>\n

February 11, 2010<\/strong>
\nMatthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University
\n“The Lost History of Afro-Yucatan”<\/p>\n

2006-2007<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 28, 2006<\/strong>
\nIrene M. Silverblatt, Duke University
\n“Modern Inquisitions: Peru & the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World”<\/p>\n

October 28, 2006<\/strong>
\nMar\u00eda Elena Mart\u00ednez, USC
\n“The Purity of Whiteness: Concepts of Blood, Color, and Race in New Spain”<\/p>\n

Ann Twinam, University of Texas, Austin
\n“The Purchase of Whiteness: Pardo Strategies for Upward Mobility in Colonial Spanish America”<\/p>\n

November 30, 2006<\/strong>
\nDavid Sartorius, Whittier College
\n“The Price of Integrity: Race, Empire, and Loyalty in Late Colonial Peru”<\/p>\n

January 13, 2007<\/strong>
\nMichelle J. Molina, University of California, Irvine
\n“The Will and the Flesh: Spiritual Technologies of the Self in the 18th Century”<\/p>\n

February 2, 2007<\/strong>
\nKenneth Mills, University of Toronto
\n“Outside In: Diego de Oca\u00f1a’s Long Journey Home, 1599-1608”<\/p>\n

William B. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley
\n“Short Journeys to Sacred Places: Devotional Landscapes and Circulation in Colonial Mexico”<\/p>\n

February 23, 2007<\/strong>
\nPamela Voekel, University of Georgia
\n“Holy Warrior: Gender, Religion, and Revolution in Mexico, 1750-1861”<\/p>\n

2005-2006<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 22, 2005<\/strong>
\nSusan Deans-Smith, University of Texas, Austin, and Ilona Katzew, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
\n“Representing the Colonial Body in 18th Century Mexico”<\/p>\n

November 11, 2005<\/strong>
\nKathryn Burns, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
\n“Making Indigenous Archives: The Quilcay Camayoe of Colonial Cuzco”<\/p>\n

November 22, 2005<\/strong>
\nJaime Cuadriello, Instituto de Investigaciones Est\u00e9ticas, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico
\n“Cort\u00e9s as the American Moses: The Mural Writing of Patriotic History”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":608,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nColonial Latin America - USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/colonial-latin-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colonial Latin America - USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/colonial-latin-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-22T18:11:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/emsi\\\/colonial-latin-america\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dornsife.usc.edu\\\/emsi\\\/colonial-latin-america\\\/\",\"name\":\"Colonial Latin America - 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