MLA Commons | LLC Colonial Latin American | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Colonial Latin American. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:50:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6fb44110c847f56105435123316c33c3 Luis Fernando Restrepo started the topic CFP MLA 2027 Roundtable in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-roundtable/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:58:27 -0500 MLA 2027 CFP Sponsored by the LLC Colonial Latin America Forum (guaranteed session)
 Unbounding the Colonial Latin American Archive
Round table examining historical and critical approaches to the colonial archive and their political implications. Dissident narratives, emerging subjectivities, new geographies, displacements, regimes of visibility,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed3bf905fb590373ab996b08082a1777 Luis Fernando Restrepo started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations to serve in the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-to-serve-in-the-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:02:29 -0500 The Executive Committee of the LLC Colonial Latin American Literature invites Forum Members to send nominations or self-nominations to the Forum’s executive committee.  Send nominations by March 1, 2026 to Karen Stolley (kstolle@emory.edu) or Luis Fernando Restrepo (lrestr@uark.edu) or the MLA directly, as indicated below.  The five year term is a…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a69482e422108e49b614808749176b3 Giovanna Montenegro started the topic Join us for Happy Hour/ Cash Bar in Toronto- Friday January 9 5pm in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/join-us-for-happy-hour-cash-bar-in-toronto-friday-january-9-5pm/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:36:51 -0500 Coming to MLA#26 in person? Please join LLC Colonial Latin American Literature along with CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern and LLC Medieval Iberian for a Happy Hour in Toronto.</div>

Please join us at 3 Brasseurs at  5pm on Friday January 9 275 Yongue St.
This is a cash bar, and the bar can do individual checks.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/<wbr /&…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae0f6db7ddb684ad47e0728031f6a372 Luis Restrepo started the topic MLA 2026 Toronto Colonial Latin American Literature Sessions-- join us! in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/mla-2026-toronto-colonial-latin-american-literature-sessions-join-us/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:32:57 -0500 2026 MLA LLC Colonial Latin American Forum Sessions

 

Thursday, 8 January 2026

 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

#93 – Rethinking Connections between Latin American Colonial and Dutch Atlantic Worlds

Presider, Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton U, State U of New York

 

Living with Water: Aquatic Engagements in Colonized Neerlandophone Deltas

Julée Al-…[Read more]

]]> 0 6427ab1636918f02ddc8f981b594725e Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "Winking at his Readers from the Gaps: Guamán Poma de Ayala's Silent Texts" in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1880716/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 03:00:09 -0400 In this essay, I address the perception of confusion, entanglement, incomprehension, opacity, and enigmatic nature of Guamán Poma’s book that made scholars like Peruvian Historian Porras Barrenechea uncomfortable enough to push it to the margins of historical studies due to its perceived lack of value and merit. To this end, I briefly discuss ex…[Read more]

]]> 0 eaad96e8b0c12fe22034e7d61fc7889b Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "From Science Fiction to Futurism in Peruvian Literature" in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875800/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:03:08 -0500 Introduction to the bilingual anthology “Qhipa Pacha. Peruvian Futurism” and preliminary study about the origins and development of the science fiction genre in Peruvian letters since the 19th century. The anthology includes 14 short stories written by contemporary Peruvian and Peruvian-based authors, members of the Qhipa Pacha Collective. These…[Read more]

]]> 0 551b75c79e5fc3e04d2401bd0f6e659d Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited Qhipa Pacha. Futurismo peruano. Peruvian Futurism. A Bilingual Anthology. in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875014/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:00:03 -0500 This volume brings science fiction from the innermost point of Peruvian roots and ancestral knowledge. This bilingual anthology opens with a preliminary study of the Peruvian literature of science fiction from the 19th century to the present. It pays attention to the role of realismo mágico, lo real maravilloso, and literatura fantástica in the e…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7eadde6b87787f526f9f3a7a33301c9 Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870642/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:06:12 -0500 This contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for “Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge.”

]]> 0 5cc07b5eba7f8ae92614ec57bd82f261 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El mito del pluricentrismo desde le realidad de la traducción in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766340/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:05:16 -0500 The present work analyzes the application of the pluricentric interpretation
to the Spanish language from the repercussion that this current may have
to correctly interpret the complex reality of Spanish in the United States. The
concept of pluricentrism is not innocent, it tries to favor certain political and
economic interests and it can…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed6f2f49206f89dd82233dbb0ffead72 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Enigmas de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno. in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756115/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:35:06 -0400 This article reviews four crucial moments of the editorial life of Guaman Poma de Ayala’s “Nueva corónica y buen gobierno” [New Chronicle and Good Government], a 1189-page history of Peru before, during, and after the Spanish conquest. The chronicle includes 399 ink drawings made by the author. The essay also addresses unanswered questions…[Read more]

]]> 0 e54b6719e699c07dcfbe1589d5125871 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Hablando desde el archivo colonial: Voces femeninas del Virreinato del Perú in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756112/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:23:39 -0400 Invited contribution to the book-catalog “Libros y autores del virreinato del Perú (1542-1824)” [Books and authors of the Viceroyalty of Peru] that accompanies the one-year exhibit (same title as the book) at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (Spain). The exhibit can be visited from September 2021-September 2022. This chapter addresses the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d62ba9f07ebe3703cd804368c50b9cfd David A. Wacks deposited Pablo Tac, Conversión de los Saluiseños de la Alta California (Roma, ca. 1840) in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1748167/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 02:26:19 -0400 Conversión de los Saluiseños de la Alta California (c. 1840) by Pablo Tac is the only published document written by an indigenous Californian during the Spanish-Mexican period. Born at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, north of San Diego, California in 1820, Tac wrote the manuscript while studying to be a Catholic priest at a seminary in Rome. C…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd7adeafb67b1ffd806c1a47fae576bf David A. Wacks deposited Pablo Tac, Conversion of the Saluiseños of Alta California (Rome, c. 1840) in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1748165/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 02:25:06 -0400 Conversión de los Saluiseños de la Alta California (Conversion of the Saluiseños of Alta California) (c. 1840) by Pablo Tac is the only published document written by an indigenous Californian during the Spanish-Mexican period. Born at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, north of San Diego, California in 1820, Tac wrote the manuscript while st…[Read more]

]]> 0 95086df3fd491218a9a8b221d2db4dd7 Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic CFP: DH and Spanish Literature and Culture (NeMLA, Baltimore 2022) in the discussion LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-dh-and-spanish-literature-and-culture-nemla-baltimore-2022/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:56:04 -0400 Posting by request of Erin Lane <ellane2@asu.edu>

Greetings,
I am leading a panel on Digital Humanities and Spanish Literature and Culture at the NeMLA convention in 2022 in Baltimore, MD. Would you be so kind as to share the following abstract with colleagues and/or graduate students who may be interested in participating? They can submit their…[Read more]

]]> 0 f20236d2a4ca08052383eb917eb909b6 Thomas Robert Ward deposited Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking during the Sixteenth Century in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1731126/ Fri, 12 Mar 2021 02:24:02 -0500 This book delves into the inadequately explored, liberative side of Humanism during the late Renaissance. While some long-sixteenth-century thinking anticipates twentieth-century Liberation Theology, a broader description is simply “liberation thinking,” which embraces its diverse, timeless, and sometimes nontheological aspects.

Two moments fra…[Read more]

]]> 0 46cca3d77c17b91f5a3afc244ce79463 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Mujeres en papel y tinta: identificación, automodelaje y remodelaje en el archivo colonial in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1716477/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 04:04:29 -0500 Direct and indirect women’s access to the expression of their ideas and wishes on ink and paper has significantly contributed to the construction of the Latin American colonial archive. Nevertheless, this contribution to the area of Latin American women’s studies still remains little known and understudied. The colonial tradition of women’s autho…[Read more]

]]> 0 3687f75a941ea45f7b6f96bb5c55f794 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited La oralidad bajo la pluma: actos de habla y memoria oral en el archivo colonial andino in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1716316/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 04:04:25 -0500 The recording of Andean data and histories in Peru before and after the arrival of Spanish conquistadors invites us to reflect about the place of the oral word and speech acts, and their function in the transmission and development of knowledge in Western societies. The European fixation with the written word was brought to the Americas in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 58e60e8664e783876729fc2640254848 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Gender and Genre Bias: Women Writers & Networks in Latin America in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1715797/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 02:23:45 -0500 It is well known that the literary history of Latin America and its canon has been/is written by a patriarchal Eurocentric society that controls what constitutes national literature. It is also established that (colonial/contemporary) Latin American subjects in the periphery of the urban republic of letters are not included due to their gender…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ee124197d69e298848cdc788a097df0 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Secular Women Writers of Colonial Spanish America.” in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1714432/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 04:04:38 -0400 New directions of research in colonial women’s studies on gender roles, periphery and margins, and discursive practices that expand the notion of “literary text” (Adorno 177), indicate that the textual corpus of colonial women’s writings continues to increase. This emergent group of texts reveals patterns of rhetorical strategies and recurre…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4b13cfd6b2439bc80d65db1673bea86 Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited Literatura colonial latinoamericana: un tejido infinito de (re)interpretaciones y representaciones in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1714431/ Sat, 24 Oct 2020 04:03:34 -0400 El año 1492 evoca instancias radicales de cambio en los procesos de percepción y representación en ambos lados del Atlántico. Estos informaron a su vez los procesos mutuos de cognición que, eventualmente, se extenderían al resto del orbe . Dichas instancias no solo propiciaron la percepción y representación de mundos descono…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab3289313af85b0a2c24942cae97973c Rocío Quispe-Agnoli deposited “Escribirlo es nunca acabar”: cuatrocientos cinco años de lecturas y silencios una de Opera Aperta colonial andina in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1713909/ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 02:27:01 -0400 This essay introduces a collection of scholarly contributions, from inside and outside of Peru, to the study of the Andean colonial world. These essays address once again Guaman Poma de Ayala’s chronicle in its 405th anniversary in 2020. Unknown, invisible, mute for almost 300 years, the ladino Indian’s “letter to the king” reveals itself as a ta…[Read more]

]]> 0 af9b621905e02f34fe763146cefedfcc Romana Radlwimmer started the topic CfP: Entornos coloniales y de colonialidad (conferencia semi-virtual) in the discussion LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-entornos-coloniales-y-de-colonialidad-conferencia-semi-virtual/ Thu, 03 Sep 2020 18:57:32 -0400 CfP: Entornos coloniales y de colonialidad: rentabilidad, distanciamiento, medición (Sección 4 del XXIII. Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas, 24-27 de febrero 2021, semi-virtual)

 

Desde la temprana Edad Moderna, lo colonial ha sido una de las categorías que han marcado el mundo decisivamente. A través de la medición, la renta…[Read more]

]]> 0 4259ae2f8cb11a5200e24452a065d4ff Lisa Voigt started the topic Women & Language CFP (https://www.womenandlanguage.org/submissions) in the discussion LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/women-language-cfp-https-www-womenandlanguage-org-submissions/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:58:59 -0400 Call for Papers | Women & Language  Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebdcdf7b24fdccc2b3744dc167666061 Elvira L. Vilches started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Colonial Latin American HAPPY HOUR in the discussion LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/mla-2020-llc-colonial-latin-american-happy-hour/ Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:51:50 -0500 Dear friends,
Please join the LLC Colonial Latin American Forum Happy Hour.   As she usually does, Lisa Voigt has picked the coolest place: The Belmont Bar.    https://www.belmontseattle.com/

January 10th, 8:00 pm at the Belmont Bar.

518 Pike StreetSeattle 98122 206-557-0733

]]> 0 92bdf771d71164ffa6b71f72d39c9c35 Elvira L. Vilches started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Colonial Latin American Sessions in the discussion LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/mla-2020-llc-colonial-latin-american-sessions/ Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:47:45 -0500   46. Colonial Translation: Rendering Indigenous and Western Exchanges

Organizer and Chair: Galen Brokaw

THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 1:45 PM-3:00 PM, 203 (WSCC)

  • Marlena Cravens, U of Texas, “Quechua Dictionaries: Catholicism and Tribute in the Wake of Castilian Conquest, 1535-1620”
  • Ben Post, Murray State U, “Calderón reducido: Theological Drama in…

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]]> 0 d4b5237e5abaef5fcf37a786df2f985a Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663735/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:16:02 -0400 The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 533a4340ad0c54e9762ce3d5ed7e3e27 Thomas Robert Ward deposited The Formation of Latin American Nations in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635807/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:26:16 -0400 This book brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they “discover” New World peoples, The Formation of Latin American Nations begins with the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before the advent of European col…[Read more]

]]> 0 99a5662edab44484502074b1964fe98c Elvira L. Vilches started the topic CFP MLA 2020JOINT SESSION-- COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA FORUM AND GLOBAL HISPANOPHON in the discussion LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2020joint-session-colonial-latin-america-forum-and-global-hispanophon/ Fri, 15 Feb 2019 21:42:18 -0500 The Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f9f77683d534f42b4726ebaca1120e9 Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-2020-mla-panel-on-colonial-translation-2/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 19:25:57 -0500 The Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation for the 2020 MLA convention. This panel seeks to explore the effects of translation in the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc729511e5d69092b4c3478d5c5682dd Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-2020-mla-panel-on-colonial-translation/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 19:21:51 -0500 The Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation. This panel seeks to explore the ways in which translation shaped the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to what extent does…[Read more]

]]> 0 cefa79eeb31201ee4d9d8dfab0c173a6 Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631157/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 03:50:05 -0500 While there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f0c56e694e0d38db106b654a619bfce Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628524/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:53:07 -0500 In 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]

]]> 0 8ddc30a521760efd43e35c2d959957e5 Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Colonial Latin American History Panels/ AHA 2019 in the discussion LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/colonial-latin-american-history-panels-aha-2019/ Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:50:36 -0500  

Dear colleagues,

Here is the  list of the AHA 2019 Colonial Latin American History panels, you may find interesting

 

  1. 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]

]]> 0 f86f93bcfd6069a2313defb71c0196b0 Monica Diaz started the topic CFP MLA 2019 African Transactions Within and Beyond Colonial Brazil in the discussion Colonial Latin American Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2019-african-transactions-within-and-beyond-colonial-brazil/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:28:00 -0500 Guaranteed 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

]]> 0 f54f62897868e7edc2bce33b5fb0c4da Cristian Roa started the topic CFP 2018 MLA Convention. Sor Juana: Securing Women’s Writing in the discussion Colonial Latin American Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-2018-mla-convention-sor-juana-securing-womens-writing/ Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:44:47 -0500 CFP

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]

]]> 0 239825e4c4129e87ffdc2804cfc2c953 Jorge Tellez started the topic MLA 2018 Call For Papers: New Itineraries of the Colonial Picaresque in the discussion Colonial Latin American Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/mla-2018-call-for-papers-new-itineraries-of-the-colonial-picaresque/ Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:14:16 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 39412f001298218618777a55e286b5e0 Ivonne del Valle started the topic Panels and Happy hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/MLA 2017 in the discussion Colonial Latin American Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/panels-and-happy-hour-for-colonial-latin-american-literaturesmla-2017/ Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:07:33 -0500 Dear 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]

]]> 0 0da9c8279d1b34c59f1bc6915fc63f04 Jeronimo Arellano started the topic CfP (MLA 2017): Post/Colonial Affect in the discussion Colonial Latin American Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-postcolonial-affect/ Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:37:53 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 5a1b2dbac2a04bd9322563142b8a0338 Giovanna Montenegro started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Special Session: The Colonial Americas:Ecocritical Perspectives in the discussion Colonial Latin American Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2017-special-session-the-colonial-americasecocritical-perspectives/ Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:52:59 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 0b27ecf77c07c3323bba43032959e7db 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/colonial-latin-america-forum-proposed-panels-for-mla-2017-philadelphia-jan-5-8/ Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:23:03 -0500 Colonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8.
Colonial ethnographies

This 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]

]]> 0 93174cfe5777dab4fcc320287e95f8c4 Ivonne del Valle started the topic Panels and Happy hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/MLA 2016 in the discussion Colonial Latin American Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/panels-and-happy-hour-for-colonial-latin-american-literaturesmla-2016/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:53:07 -0500 Dear 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]

]]> 0 b05665b0e47d652461249129263d6746 Monica Diaz started the topic Abstracts for the session "Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers" in the discussion Colonial Latin American Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/abstracts-for-the-session-colonial-texts-and-communities-of-readers/ Fri, 20 Nov 2015 04:24:08 -0500 “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]

]]> 0 b5a39cd6ecfe64b104d06c9dd72348d2 Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Americas in the discussion Colonial Latin American Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american-literatures/forum/topic/acla-2016-cfp-hemispheric-approaches-to-literature-and-cartography-in-the-americas/ Wed, 02 Sep 2015 12:35:00 -0400 Please 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]

]]> 0 dfcc14fa25331e20def0774fc624e1a3 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 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american-literatures/forum/topic/call-for-papers-131st-mla-annual-convention-austin-7-10-january-2016/ Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:49:19 -0500 SESSIONS: 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]

]]> 0 dd8d792423727e10ce468e3e85d059e8 Sara Vicuna Guengerich replied to the topic MLA Convention: Colonial Latin American Literatures Division Panels in the forum Colonial Latin American Literatures http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american-literatures/forum/topic/mla-convention-colonial-latin-american-literatures-division-panels/#post-6253 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 17:13:13 -0500 Dear 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]

]]> 0 514159b7f1997d557575af2195864fcc Anna More started the topic MLA Convention Colonial Happy Hour in the forum Colonial Latin American Literatures http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american-literatures/forum/topic/mla-convention-colonial-happy-hour/ Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:48:40 -0500 The 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 pm

Bellagio Wine Bar is located in the Convention Centre. More information may be found at the webs…[Read more]

]]> 0 94fc06f5d752aec509e1fd19a40fa818 Anna More started the topic MLA Convention: Colonial Latin American Literatures Division Panels in the forum Colonial Latin American Literatures http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american-literatures/forum/topic/mla-convention-colonial-latin-american-literatures-division-panels/ Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:45:42 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 cb6d54c4fa32b61f20d78b83a2f4f50e Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to Colonial Latin American Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/85873/ Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:54:52 -0500 The 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.

]]> 0 5d0e316ed2a4741c8b53c3ee6de79165 Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to Colonial Latin American Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/85872/ Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:52:37 -0500 The 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.

]]> 0 47578535b59ec8e3805ac5a66999b151 Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to Colonial Latin American Literatures https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/85871/ Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:50:27 -0500 The 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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