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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 days, 22 hours agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Colonial Latin American History Panels/ AHA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 2 days agoDear colleagues,
Here is the list of the AHA 2019 Colonial Latin American History panels, you may find interesting
- Religion and Society in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic World
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PMSalon 1 (Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor)Chair: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of WinnipegPapers:Becoming “…[Read more]
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Monica Diaz started the topic CFP MLA 2019 African Transactions Within and Beyond Colonial Brazil in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 months, 4 weeks agoGuaranteed session of the of Colonial Latin American Forum
What can the study of African/Afro-descendent culture in colonial Brazil teach us about its presence elsewhere? Papers on the African presence in Brazil in isolation, connection, or comparison to other areas of colonial Latin America. Send one-page abstract and cv to Lisa Voigt at voigt.25@osu.edu
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Cristian Roa started the topic CFP 2018 MLA Convention. Sor Juana: Securing Women’s Writing in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoCFP
2018 MLA Convention
Collaborative Session: GEMELA and Colonial Latin American Forum
As is known, misogynist scholarly and ecclesiastical practices challenged women’s cultural
production in seventeenth-century New Spain. Nevertheless, inconsistencies and insecurities
weakened gendered discourses, and women found ways to make their voices h…[Read more]
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Jorge Tellez started the topic MLA 2018 Call For Papers: New Itineraries of the Colonial Picaresque in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoThis special session seeks contributions that rethink the picaresque tradition from a colonial and post-colonial perspective. Following the 2018 presidential theme, #States of Insecurity, papers may explore the journey of the precarious and vulnerable figure of the pícaro from Spain to Spanish America, and study how the picaresque is received, a…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic Panels and Happy hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/MLA 2017 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2017.
We hope to see you there!
Colonial Latin American Studies
<span data-term=”goog_370016640″>Thursday, 5 January</span>, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial Latin A…[Read more]
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Jeronimo Arellano started the topic CfP (MLA 2017): Post/Colonial Affect in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis panel invites papers that rethink the affective turn in the humanities from the vantage of colonial and postcolonial histories. The proposed focus in an exploration of colonial and postcolonial affects, both in general terms as well as in relation to specific cultural practices, visual objects, or written texts. How do we theorize and his…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Special Session: The Colonial Americas:Ecocritical Perspectives in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic Colonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoColonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8.
Colonial ethnographiesThis panel seeks papers on colonial ethnographic discourse in the context of Spanish imperialism. Numerous colonial texts engage in the description and interpretation of indigenous cultures, dealing with the complexities of transferring i…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic Panels and Happy hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/MLA 2016 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear Members,
The Forum for Colonial Latin American Literatures cordially wishes to invite you to the following events at MLA 2016. We hope to see you all very soon!
Best wishes,
Nicolás Wey Gómez
Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers
Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 209, JW Marriott
Happy Hour, Colonial Latin American Lit…[Read more]
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Monica Diaz started the topic Abstracts for the session "Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers" in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago“Circulating Spanish and European Texts in Colonial Latin America,” Angelica Duran, Purdue University.
I seek to nuance our understanding and appreciation the history of textual presence of both Iberian-Spanish canonical literature specifically and also European canonical literature more generally in Colonial Latin America. In the first hal…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Americas in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoPlease consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu
Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
The use and interest…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS 131st MLA ANNUAL CONVENTION Austin, 7-10 January 2016 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoSESSIONS: FORUM OF COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES
Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers
Chair: Mónica Díaz, University of Kentucky
Engaging with the presidential theme for MLA 2016, “Literature and Its Publics,” this panel focuses on the material history of the production of texts – in both manuscript and printed forms – an…[Read more]
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Sara Vicuna Guengerich replied to the topic MLA Convention: Colonial Latin American Literatures Division Panels in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 4 years agoDear Colleagues,
Another session of interest for colonialists is the GEMELA sponsored panel “In Search of Forgotten Women in Pre 1800 Iberia and the Americas.” Thursday, January 8, 7:00-8:15 pm, VCC East.
Presider: Emily Francomano
Sara Vicuña Guengerich, Texas Tech University, “Daughters of the Inca Conquest: Native Women in Spanish Colonial Pr…[Read more] -
Anna More started the topic MLA Convention Colonial Happy Hour in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures would like to invite you to join us for our annual Colonial Happy Hour at the upcoming MLA Conference in Vancouver:
Colonial Happy Hour
Bellagio Wine Bar
Friday, January 9, 5 pm – 7 pmBellagio Wine Bar is located in the Convention Centre. More information may be found at the webs…[Read more]
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Anna More started the topic MLA Convention: Colonial Latin American Literatures Division Panels in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 4 years agoThe Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures has sponsored the following panels at the upcoming MLA Conference in Vancouver:
228. Connecting Spanish and Portuguese Empires
Friday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 3, VCC East
428. The Enlightenment in the Colonies
Saturday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 17, VCC East
739. Indigenous Texts a…[Read more]
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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