Organised by Michael Bax (Oxford), Tania Bride (Oxford), and Joana Neves Teixeira (Oxford), this international symposium offers a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research on indigenous history, focusing specifically on colonial Latin America. It also celebrates the growing relevance of this major scholarly field in Oxford over recent years, largely thanks to the exceptional calibre of graduate students and early career researchers. The event will feature a wonderful line-up of speakers and participants from all over the world. Caterina Pizzigoni (Columbia) will deliver the introductory talk on 18 June. Other speakers include Salvador Reyes Equigas (UNAM), Capucine Boidin (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris), Caroline Cunill (EHESS, Paris) and Andrew Laird (Brown), who will speak on 19 June alongside a number of Oxford-based scholars.
The symposium is sponsored by Magdalen College, Oxford, the Faculty of History of the University of Oxford, and the Latin American Centre. It is also part of, and supporte by, the Iberian History Seminar programme for Trinity Term and will be its concluding activity for the current academic year.
Please register by emailing michael.bax@magd.ox.ac.uk by Tuesday, 16 June at noon.
Programme
Thursday, 18th June – Latin American Centre
Introductory Talk: 17:00-19:00
Chair: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Caterina Pizzigoni (Columbia), Santitos: saints and people in the Indigenous household in colonial Mexico and beyond
Friday 19th June – Latin American Centre
10:00 - Arrive at LAC
10:15-10:30 – Introduction by Michael Bax (Oxford)
Session 1: 10:30- 12:30
Chair: Imogen Choi (Oxford)
10:30 – 11:15 Salvador Reyes Equiguas (UNAM), Representaciones performativas de la memoria entre los antiguos nahuas en los cantares mexicanos
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Tania Bride (Oxford), Beyond the hall of mirrors? Reaching Indigenous voices in the church court records of New Spain
12:15-12:30 Pre-Lunch Brief Session: Benjamin Branch-Trevathan (Oxford) and Lily Sonnenblick (Oxford), Reflections from the first students of Nahuatl in Oxford
12:30-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:00 Post-Lunch Brief Session: Salvador Reyes Equiguas (UNAM), Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas: Investigation into the Automatic Transcription of Nahuatl
Session 2: 14:00-15:45
Chair: Joana Neves Teixiera (Oxford)
14:00-14:45 Capucine Boidin (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris), Trends in the study of Guarani in the colonial period
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-15:45 Caroline Cunill (Ehess, Paris), Mayan languages and texts in Colonial Latin American History: an overview and some questions
15:45 – 16:00 Break
Final Session: 16:00-17:15
Moderated by Charlene Villaseñor Black (Oxford)
Roundtable: Future Directions
Participants: Andrew Laird (Brown), Elizabeth Baquedano (UCL), Virginia Lladó-Buisán (Oxford), Caterina Pizzigoni (Columbia), Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford)
Dinner for speakers:19:15
