Colonial

The Colonial Section has sponsored 2-3 panels at each LASA congress since 2014. At our first business meeting in Washington, D.C., in 2013, the membership decided that these panels should be organized by the members of the executive council, in part as a way to provide newer members of the profession with the opportunity to explore a topic of interest or begin a new line of conversation.

2024, Bogotá

Witnesses in the Spanish American Colonial Archive / Testigos en el archivo colonial hispanoamericano, chaired and organized by Rubén Sánchez-Godoy, Southern Methodist University

1. "Depositional Dialogues: The Shadow of Black Women's Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records." Karen Graubart,  University of Notre Dame
2. "Asesinar y dar testimonio para el archivo colonial." Vanina Teglia, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET
3. "Cuerpos que sangran, cuerpos que hablan: abortos, verificaciones de la virginidad y denuncias contra la violencia sexual colonial." Paola Uparela, University of Florida
4. "Motines y juicios por traición en el Río de la Plata: la posibilidad de una voz." Loreley El Jaber,  Universidad de Buenos Aires

Poéticas y políticas de los afectos en el archivo colonial latinoamericano - Parte 1, liderado y organizado por Valeria Añón, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET; comentarista, Sarissa Carneiro, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

1. "Affective Bonds and Communities of Care in the Colonial Mexican Convent." Stephanie Kirk, Washington University
2. "'¿Diremos que hay almas enteras en todos esos pedazos?' La vida póstuma de las partes del cuerpo amputadas en Arauco domado (1596)." Sandra Accatino Scagliotti, Universidad Alberto Hurtado
3. "El idilio de Quétza y Huítzel: Pasión, dolor y desesperación en la conquista de la Nueva España." Juan Carlos Cabrera Pons, University of Massachusetts Amherst
4. "Affective Economies in 17th-Century Nahuatl Texts: Bartolomé de Alva and Sor Juana." Ben Post, Murray State University
5. "Matar es cosa de machos! Las emociones y la guerra en Historia de la Nueva México de Gaspar de Villagrá." Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas

Colonialism at the Periphery, chaired and organized by Amber Brian, University of Iowa

1. "Relapse and Reconversion: Towards a Genealogy of Counter-Conquest in the Work of the Colonial Trans-Pacific (Christian) Mission." John Blanco, University of California, San Diego
2. "The Role of Indigenous Patterns of Warfare in the Spanish Invasion of the Philippines, 1565-1573." Natalie Cobo, University of Oxford
3. "Blurred Heterogeneity: Colonialism Transported to the Pacific." Song No, Purdue University
4. Writing Anti-Colonial Resistance and Transculturation in the Early Modern Spanish Pacific: Letters to the King of Spain from Chinese Communities in Manila." Yangyou Fang, Princeton University

2023, Vancouver and Virtual Congress

Uses and Misuses of Theoretical Concepts in the Field of Colonial Luso-Hispanic Studies, chaired and organized by Mariana-Cecilia Velázquez, University of Nevada, Reno

1. "Los límites de la resistencia: Mujeres esclavizadas y experiencias de dolor en Santiago de Chile, siglos XVII y VIII." Alejandra Fuentes González, Universidad de los Andes, Chile
2. "¿Es posible leer desde una perspectiva decolonial textos sobre la exploración temprana del norte de la Nueva España?" Rubén Sánchez-Godoy, Southern Methodist University
3. "Misconception of Brazilian Identity in Raízes do Brasil." María Cristina de Souza, Independent Scholar

The Pacific and Colonial Latin America: New Frameworks, chaired and organized by Nicole D. Legnani, Princeton University

1. "Colonial Latin America and the Iberian Pacific." Christina H. Lee , Princeton University
2. "An Indigenous Pacific Northwest in José Mariano Moziño’s Noticias de Nutka." Iris Montero, Brown University
3. "In the Shadow of Captain Cook: Yuquot, San Lorenzo de Nutca, and Pacific North America." Marcos Pérez Cañizares, Cornell University
4. "A Look at the Pacific from the Andes." Angelica Serna, University of New Mexico

2022, Virtual Congress

Retos en el campo de los estudios coloniales luso-hispánicos, Organizado y liderado por Mariana Cecilia Velázquez, University of Nevada, Reno

1. "On Collaboration, Translation, and Access in Colonial Latin American Letters." Jeanne Gillespie, University of Southern Mississippi.
2. "Black African Agency in the Formation of Bartolomé de Las Casas's Ideology of Social Justice." Monica Styles, Colby College.
3. "Ninfas en la épica de la expansion ibérica: retos de la investigación." Sarissa Carneiro, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
4. "Cabeza de Vaca Transversal. Pautas interdisciplinarias para enseñar el archivo colonial." Luis Fernando Restrepo, University of Arkansas.

Transforming Medieval Iberia in Colonial Latin America, Organizado y liderado por Caroline Egan, Northwestern University

1. "Letters to the King: Epistolography in Sixteenth-Century New Spain." Amber Brian, University of Iowa.
2. "La limpieza de sangre ante la Inquisición de Chile como medio de integración o desintegración del orden religioso-social." Macarena Cordero Fernández, Universidad de los Andes.
3. "Telling Islands in the Chivalric Fiction of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo." Nicole Legnani, Princeton University
4. "From Auctoritates to Tlamatinime: Nahuatl Scholarly Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon." David Tavárez, Vassar College.

Representaciones del espacio en el period colonial latinoamericano (1492-1898), Organizado y liderado por Yamile Silva, University of Scranton

1. "Escritura y espacialidad en el Río de La Plata colonial." Loreley El Jaber, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
2. "To Die Indio. Funeral Rituals, Community, and Mobility in the Colonial City of Santiago de Chile." Javiera Jaque, Virginia Tech.
3. "El 'recogimiento': jurisdicciones para la multiplicación de indios." Paola Uparela, Universidad de Florida.
4. "Franciscan Cognitive Mappings of Cultural Boundaries in San Antonio, Texas Missions." Albert Palacios, University of Texas at Austin.

2021, Virtual Congress

Horizons of Comparative Colonial Studies/ Horizontes de los estudios coloniales comparados
Session Organizer and Chair: Caroline Egan, Northwestern University

1. Comparing Islands under the Spanish Empire: Laura V. Dierksmeier, Universität Tübingen
2. New Spain and Brazil in the Theater of the World: Nicole T. Hughes, Stanford University
3. Comparative Colonialities in a Pluriversal Hispanophone World: Yolanda M. Martínez-San Miguel, University of Miami
4. The Reception of Bartolomé de las Casas through Comparative Historiography: Mary E. Speer, Independent Scholar

Transferencias, trayectorias y cruce de saberes en el archivo colonial
Session Organizer and Chair: Valeria Añón, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de La Plata Conicet, Argentina

1. Arconte y archivo: producción y reproducción de lo colonial en el XIX: Enrique Cortéz, Portland State University
2. Coloniality, knowledge transfers, and the colonial archive: of huacas/saints, grace/camaq, imitation/distinction, and the politics of their interpretation: Gonzalo Lamana, University of Pittsburgh
3. Inga quiere decir inglés: el saber etimológico como saber sobre el origen: Esperanza López Parada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
4. Melancolía y flema: dos atributos de la indianidad en las obras de Lope de Atienza (1575) y Bernabé Cobo (1653): Germán Morong R., Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins

Representaciones del miedo/ Representations of Fear
Session Organizer and Chair: Yamile Silva, University of Scranton

1. "Things Will Explode": Signs of Fear and Conversion in Nahuatl Judgment Plays: Ben Post, Murray State University
2. Of Fear, Hope, and Disruption. Who is the Other in Las Casas's Accounts of Restitution?: Monica Morales, University of Arizona
3. La narrativa del miedo en la conquista del Perú: una revisión de la crónica de Agustín de Zárate: Marta Ortiz- Canseco, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

2020, Guadalajara

Transferencias, trayectorias y cruce de saberes en el archivo colonial
Session Organizer and Chair: Valeria Añón, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de La Plata Conicet, Argentina

1. Arconte y archivo: producción y reproducción de lo colonial en el XIX: Enrique Cortéz, Portland State University
2. Coloniality, knowledge transfers, and the colonial archive: of huacas/saints, grace/camaq, imitation/distinction, and the politics of their interpretation: Gonzalo Lamana, University of Pittsburgh
3. Inga quiere decir inglés: el saber etimológico como saber sobre el origen: Esperanza López Parada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
4. Melancolía y flema: dos atributos de la indianidad en las obras de Lope de Atienza (1575) y Bernabé Cobo (1653): Germán Morong R., Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins

The Material Colonial World: Thinking with Things
Session Organizer and Chair: Kelly S McDonough, University of Texas at Austin

1. Building the Pre-Hispanic World: The Translatio of the Mexica Sacrifice Stone: Heather Allen, University of Mississippi
2. Chocolate and Wine: A Match Made in Heaven: Laura E. Matthew, Marquette University
3. Juana de Jesús: Una hagiografía andina vista desde los objetos materiales: Catalina Andrango-Walker, Virginia Tech
4. House Petitions and Colonial Becoming in Nineteenth-Century Ponce, Puerto Rico: Paul Niell, Florida State University

Horizons of Comparative Colonial Studies/ Horizontes de los estudios coloniales comparados
Session Organizer: Caroline R Egan, University of Cambridge
Chair: Nathan Gordon, Adrian College
Discussant: Santa Arias, University of Kansas

1. Translocal Notions of History in Domingo de Chimalpahin and Enrique Martínez
   (early 17th century): Richard Herzog, International Graduate Centre for the Studies of Culture, Gießen
2. Comparative Colonialities in a Pluriversal Hispanophone World: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, University of Miami
3. The Reception of Bartolomé de las Casas through Comparative Historiography: Mary Speer, Independent Scholar

2019, Boston

New Directions in Colonial Latin American Studies
Session Organizer and Chair: Caroline R Egan, University of Cambridge
Discussant: Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University

1. Negros españoles como presas de guerra: del Caribe a la Nueva York colonial: Beatriz C Peña, Queens College (CUNY)
2. "Comían esta planta para delirar y ver mil fantasmas": la farmacología de Francisco Hernández entre el discurso natural y el discurso político imperial: Giovanni F Salazar Calvo, Michigan State University
3. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Value, Gold, and The Politics of Memory: Jorge Tellez, University of Pennsylvania

Expanding the Colonial Canon: The Production of First Editions (Workshop)
Chair: Kelly S McDonough, University of Texas at Austin

Presenters: Wendy J Kramer; Clayton L McCarl, University of North Florida; Rebeca Moreno-Orama, Washington College; Matthew J Hill, Brigham Young University

Colonial Technologies and the Emergence of Latin America
Session Organizer and Chair: Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University
Discussant: Caroline R Egan, University of Cambridge

1. Religión y tecné: del arte de construirse un ídolo y/o un mártir: Esperanza López Parada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2. Indigenous Technologies of Language and Writing: Voice and Image in New Spain: Kelly S McDonough, University of Texas at Austin
3. Biomedical Technology: The Extraction of Balsam and the Welsers' Secret Lab in the Province of Venezuela" (1528-1556): Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University
4. Copper Smelting and Charcoal Making: Technology and Knowledge Transfer in Sixteenth and Seventeenth- Century Cuba: Handy Acosta, Tulane University

2018, Barcelona

Colonial Tongues – Lenguas coloniales
Session Organizer and Chair: Caroline R Egan, University of Cambridge

1. Early Colonial Translators between Eloquent Rule and Just War: Luciana Villas Boas
2. Blood, Water, Popes, and Blowguns: Language and Poetics in Contact in Colonial Mexico: Jeanne L Gillespie, University of Southern Mississippi
3. Preamble to Cajamarca 1532: Emissaries, Representations and the Strategy of Garbled Message: Sara Castro-Klaren, Johns Hopkins University
4. Lenguas e imperio: Texto y contexto en la Instrucción de Titu Cusi Yupanqui: Christian P Fernández Palacios, Louisiana State University
5. De "ladinos" a "demonios": lengua y rebelión en la Compendiosa relación de la cristiandad de Quito de Bernardo Recio: Estefania Flores

The Colonial Religious Apparatus: Part I
Session Organizer and Chair: Nathan J Gordon, Brigham Young University Chair

1. Tradición cristiana y crítica de la esclavitud en Servi Liberi de Epifanio de Moirans (1682): Rubén A Sánchez-Godoy, Southern Methodist University
2. La imagen viviente. Religiosidad e imagen en la Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indios de Fray Ramón Pané: Luca Salvi, Università di Verona
3. Sacred Geographies and Indigenous Cosmologies: 18th Century Miracle-Paintings of the Virgin of Cayma from Arequipa, Peru: Caroline A Garriott, Duke University

Colonial Mobilities

1. Seyxas y Lovera, from Madrid's favour to Mexico's prison. A cortesan writer in the naval network of Viceroy Count of Galve: Christian Supiot, Ohio State University
2. Mind and Personhood in Motion: Indigenous Humanism in Colonial Mexico: David Tavárez, Vassar College
3. Posesiones no venales: apropiación y traslado de materiales y objetos religiosos en las Indias: Esperanza López Parada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2017, Lima

Periferia, discurso y representación: debates en torno al archivo colonial hispanoamericano I
Session Organizer: Raul Marrero-Fente, University of Minnesota
Chair: Esperanza López Parada, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Discussant: Valeria Añón, Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET

1. Posturas y remates en los bordes del archivo colonial. Prácticas de ostentación y reciclaje en la fiesta novohispana (1602-1714) – Judith J Farré, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
2. Escenarios periféricos en los Comentarios reales del Inca Garcilaso: el caso chileno – Marta Ortiz Canseco, Universidad Intenacional de la Rioja
3. El margen de los márgenes: la época colonial en el territorio ocupado por el Estado de la República Oriental del Uruguay – Gustavo A Verdesio, University of Michigan
4. Épica e imperio: escribir poesía épica colonial en el siglo XVI – Raul Marrero-Fente, University of Minessota

16th and 17th Century Colonial Minds, Motives and Agendas
Chair: Nathan J Gordon, Brigham Young University

1. Embodied Interests: Simón, Rodríguez Freile and Fernández de Piedrahita as Exemplary Figures of the Ideal Colonial Mind/Subject – Alberto Villate Isaza, University of Georgia
2. Authorial Intent (and Other Agendas) in New Spain's Publishing Industry, 1540-1625 – Alberto A Palacios, University of Texas at Austin
3. 'Siendo yo': Martín de Murúa's Contested Vision in the Colonial Andes – Lisl Schoepflin, University of California Los Angeles
4. Jewish Agendas in González de Eslava's Plays – Ben Post, Murray State University

Historiografía literaria y letras virreinales peruanas: Antiguos saberes / nuevas rutas
Chair: Raquel Chang-Rodriguez, City College-Graduate Center, CUNY
Discussant: Marcel M Velázquez, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

1. Re-visión del canon de la literatura peruana virreinal – Christian P Fernández Palacios, Louisiana State University
2. Un camino diferente a Vilcabamba: La Relasción (1570) de Titu Cusi Yupanqui – Beatriz C Peña, Queens College (CUNY)
3. Literatura virreinal, tecnología y difusión – Patricia Arevalo, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

2016, New York City

The Re-articulation of the Colonial Past in the 18th and 19th Century and Its Contemporary Legacy
Session Organizer: Ann De Leon, University of Alberta
Discussant: Ashley Kerr, University of Idaho

1. From Pre-Columbian Ruins to Fiesta Time: Imagineering Walt Disney World's Cartographies of Consumer Desire in its Mexican Pavilion – Ann De Leon and Tanya Ball, University of Alberta
2. The Politics of Reconstruction: Eulalia Guzman's (Post)Colonial Archives – Laura Torres Rodriguez, New York University
3. Mitologías de la pampa seca: Relecturas y reescrituras del viaje de Mansilla –Ángel Tuninetti, West Virginia University
4. The Struggle for the Essequibo and El Dorado: A Cartographic Exercise in Mapping Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century South American Boundary Disputes – Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University

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

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 State 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

The Colonial Connection: Colonial Practices and Contemporary Cultural Products
Organizer: Pablo García Loaeza, West Virginia University
Chair: Raul Marrero-Fente, University of Minnesota

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

2015, Chicago

Colonial Materiality: Everyday Objects in Early–Modern Spanish America
Organizer, Chair and Discussant: Pablo García Loaeza, West Virginia University

1. Coca, Bread, and Wine: Plebeian Links and Connections with the Countryside – Leo J Garofalo, Connecticut College
2. Infrastructure and Race in Colonial Mexico – Daniel Nemser, University of Michigan
3. Putting the Saints on Trial: Miracle Accounts and Image–Objects in 18th Century Peru – Caroline A Garriott, Duke University

Race, Religion and Resistance in Colonial Times
Organizer and Chair: Mónica Díaz, University of Kentucky

1. Traducción como mediación e interpretación como agencia: el caso de los traductores/intérpretes africanos en Cartagena de Indias a comienzos del siglo XVII – Rubén A Sánchez–Godoy, Southern Methodist University
2. Montes d'Oca vs. de Cabrera: El caso de los mulatos en el México de 1576 – Hector E Weir, Texas A&M University
3. "Su Fingida Santidad": Narratives of Saintliness and Blackness in Late Colonial Mexico – Krystle A Farman, Graduate Center, City University of New York
4. Mohanes contra frailes. La resistencia nativa en la gobernación de Santa Marta y sus implicaciones religiosas. Siglos XVI–XVII – Luis Miguel Córdoba Ochoa, Universidad Nacional de Colombia–Sede Medellin
5. Mounting the "Poyto": An Image of Afro–Catholic Syncretic Submission in the Mystical Vision of Peru's Úrsula de Jesús – Rachel Spaulding, University of New Mexico

2014, Washington, D.C.

Urban Space, Spectacle and Race I
Session Organizer and Chair: Mónica Díaz (Georgia State University)

1. Passing under the Triumphal Arch – Rolena Adorno (Yale University)
2. "To Correct these Detestable Luxuries": Funerary Rites and the Limits of Selfhood in Late-Colonial Lima, Peru – Tamara J Walker (University of Pennsylvania)
3. After the Execution: Mapping African Experience of Colonial Mexico City – Savannah L Esquivel (University of Chicago)
4. Unruly Mexicans and Spaniards in the "Pearl of the Orient": Convict Labor, Bourbon Urban Reforms, and Racial Discourse in Late Eighteenth-Century Manila – Eva M Mehl (University of North Carolina/Wilmington)

Paradigm Shift: New Theories and Methodologies in the Study of Colonial Latin America
Session Organizers: Magali M Carrera (University of Massachusetts) and Raul Marrero-Fente (University of Minnesota)
Chair: Raul Marrero-Fente (University of Minnesota)

1. Una metáfora aristotélica para un dios desconocido: Pachacamac en el Inca Garcilaso – Esperanza López Parada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
2. Diffusion and Circulation of Images: a Theoretical Critique of the Models of Cultural Contact in the Art of the New Spain in the Sixteenth Century, José Luis Pérez Flores (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí) – Sergio A González Varela (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí)
3. Colonial Archipelagoes: Reimagining Colonial Caribbean Studies – Yolanda M Martínez-San Miguel (The State University of New Jersey)
4. Early Modern Globalism and Colonial Latin American Studies – Raul Marrero-Fente (University of Minnesota)