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UMD and Georgetown present the TePaske Seminar

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UMD and Georgetown present the TePaske Seminar

History Friday, March 20 – Saturday, March 21 2015 Georgetown University (Bunn Intercultural Center, ICC 450)

The TePaske Seminar (named in honor of John J. TePaske) is a vibrant and collegial gathering of scholars organized in a workshop-fashion, with 10 pre-circulated papers presented over the course of 2 days.

Please direct any questions about the seminar to either Alejandro Cañeque (acaneque@umd.edu) in the Department of History at the University of Maryland or to Joanne Rappaport in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University (rappapoj@georgetown.edu).

PROGRAM

Friday, March 20th

10:00-11:00  Judith Mansilla (History, Florida International University), “Spanish State-Building and the Rebuilding of Lima after the Quake of 1687: Limeños and their Quest for Legitimizing their Plans of Reconstruction.”

11:00-12:00 Eva Mehl (History, University of North Carolina at Wilmington), “Requests for Deportation: Parents, Youngsters, Wives, and the State in the Banishment of Mexicans to the
Philippines, 1765-1811.”1

12:00-1:00 lunch

1:00-2:00  Kelly McDonough (Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin), “Beyond Nahuas and Spaniards: Indigenous Noble and Commoner Relationships in Colonial Tlaxcala.”

2:00-3:00  Chad McCutcheon (History, Texas Christian University), “Gendered Dualities: Mestizo Identity and Multiethnic Views of Mestizaje in Early Colonial Peru.”

3:00-3:30 coffee break

3:30-4:30  Scot Cave (History, Pennsylvania State University), “‘Madalena, La Lengua!’: An Indian Woman and the Making of the Early Circum-Caribbean.”

Saturday, March 21st

10:00-11:00  James Little-Almeida (History, Florida International University), “Sovereignty, Slavery, and the Sea: Interimperial Conflict in the Sixteenth-Century Slave Trade.”

11:00-12:00  Michelle A. McKinley (Law, University of Oregon), “Freedom at the Font: Baptismal Manumission and Re-Enslavement in Colonial Lima.”

12:00-1:00 lunch

1:00-2:00  José Eduardo Cornelio (Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University), “‘Viva el Inca Católico’: Políticas del afecto, subalternidad y performatividades festivas en el siglo XVIII
peruano.”

2:00-3:00  Alexander Hidalgo (History, Texas Christian University), “The Trail of Footprints: Mapmaking and Authorship in Colonial Oaxaca.”

3:00-3:30 coffee break

3:30-4:30  Rocío Quispe-Agnoli (Hispanic Studies, Michigan State University), “Negotiating Nobility of Blood on Paper: Spanish-Inca Coats of Arms, Portraits, and Royal Decrees.”

The organizers would like to thank the following sponsors for their support:

The Department of History and the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University
The Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Add to Calendar 03/20/15 10:00 AM 03/21/15 4:30 PM America/New_York UMD and Georgetown present the TePaske Seminar

The TePaske Seminar (named in honor of John J. TePaske) is a vibrant and collegial gathering of scholars organized in a workshop-fashion, with 10 pre-circulated papers presented over the course of 2 days.

Please direct any questions about the seminar to either Alejandro Cañeque (acaneque@umd.edu) in the Department of History at the University of Maryland or to Joanne Rappaport in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University (rappapoj@georgetown.edu).

PROGRAM

Friday, March 20th

10:00-11:00  Judith Mansilla (History, Florida International University), “Spanish State-Building and the Rebuilding of Lima after the Quake of 1687: Limeños and their Quest for Legitimizing their Plans of Reconstruction.”

11:00-12:00 Eva Mehl (History, University of North Carolina at Wilmington), “Requests for Deportation: Parents, Youngsters, Wives, and the State in the Banishment of Mexicans to the
Philippines, 1765-1811.”1

12:00-1:00 lunch

1:00-2:00  Kelly McDonough (Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin), “Beyond Nahuas and Spaniards: Indigenous Noble and Commoner Relationships in Colonial Tlaxcala.”

2:00-3:00  Chad McCutcheon (History, Texas Christian University), “Gendered Dualities: Mestizo Identity and Multiethnic Views of Mestizaje in Early Colonial Peru.”

3:00-3:30 coffee break

3:30-4:30  Scot Cave (History, Pennsylvania State University), “‘Madalena, La Lengua!’: An Indian Woman and the Making of the Early Circum-Caribbean.”

Saturday, March 21st

10:00-11:00  James Little-Almeida (History, Florida International University), “Sovereignty, Slavery, and the Sea: Interimperial Conflict in the Sixteenth-Century Slave Trade.”

11:00-12:00  Michelle A. McKinley (Law, University of Oregon), “Freedom at the Font: Baptismal Manumission and Re-Enslavement in Colonial Lima.”

12:00-1:00 lunch

1:00-2:00  José Eduardo Cornelio (Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University), “‘Viva el Inca Católico’: Políticas del afecto, subalternidad y performatividades festivas en el siglo XVIII
peruano.”

2:00-3:00  Alexander Hidalgo (History, Texas Christian University), “The Trail of Footprints: Mapmaking and Authorship in Colonial Oaxaca.”

3:00-3:30 coffee break

3:30-4:30  Rocío Quispe-Agnoli (Hispanic Studies, Michigan State University), “Negotiating Nobility of Blood on Paper: Spanish-Inca Coats of Arms, Portraits, and Royal Decrees.”

The organizers would like to thank the following sponsors for their support:

The Department of History and the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University
The Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park.