Session Details

Thursday, 06 January

66. Imperial Tensions: Questions of Local and Universal Knowledge in Early Colonial Latin America

1:45–3:00 p.m., 303A, LA Convention Center

A special session

Presiding: Gonzalo Lamana, Univ. of Pittsburgh

1. “The Andean Wise Men Speak: Poets, Cord Keepers, and Graphic Records in Early Colonial Peru,” Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State Univ.

2. “Nahua Go-Betweens: The Use of Learned Languages in Early Colonial Mexico,” Rocío Cortés, Univ. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

3. “The Europeanization of the Pre-Hispanic Indigenous Tradition: Angel María Garibay and the Creation of a Universal National Literature,” Jongsoo Lee, Univ. of North Texas

4. “Truth, Self-Evidence, and Coloniality: El requerimiento, Guaman Poma, and Pope Benedict XVI,” Gonzalo Lamana

For abstracts, write to imperial.tensions@gmail.com.

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