Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in New Spain and the Andes

Thursday, 16 September 2010 to Friday, 17 September 2010
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge

Wednesday 15 Sept
18.00	Welcoming drinks at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane
19.30	Dinner

Thursday 16 Sept
9.30 - 10.00	Registration
10.00 - 10.15	Welcome by Yanna Yannakakis (Emory University, USA) and Gabriela Ramos (University of Cambridge, UK)
10.15 - 11.00	Keynote Address Tom Cummins (Harvard University, USA)
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.30	Panel 1: Forms and Politics of Knowledge Yanna Yannakakis (Emory University, USA) Indigenous Interpreters: Regimes of Language in Colonial Oaxaca Michael Swanton (Universidad Autónoma ‘Benito Juárez’ de Oaxaca, Mexico) Chocholtec Men of Letters during Spanish Colonial Rule Kathryn Burns (University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill, USA) The Quilcaycamayoq: Making Indigenous Archives in Colonial Cuzco
12.30 - 13.30	Discussion
13.30 - 14.30	Lunch Break

14.30 - 15.30	Panel 2: Framing the Past Juan Carlos Estenssoro (Université Lille III, France) Usos indígenas de la heráldica en los Andes (siglos XVI-XVIII) Camilla Townsend (Rutgers University, USA) Don Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza: Tlaxcalan historan and social commentator María Elena Martínez (University of Southern California, USA) Power, Knowledge, and History: Indigenous Intellectuals and Genealogical Discourses in New Spain and Peru
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.00	Discussion
19.30	Dinner

Friday 17 Sept
10.00 - 11.00	Panel 3: Networks of knowledge Gabriela Ramos (University of Cambridge, UK) Indigenous Intellectuals and the Problem of Knowledge in the Colonial Andes John Charles (Tulane University, USA) Trained by Jesuits: Indigenous Letrados in Seventeenth-Century Peru Eleanor Wake (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) “Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are!”* An appraisal of the evidence available to suggest continuity in early colonial Mexico of an indigenous system of registering community lands or local geography based on astronomical observation.
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee Break
11.30 -12.30	Discussion
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch Break
13.30 - 14.30	Panel 4: Indigenous Intellectuals and the Public Sphere John Frederick Schwaller (State University of New York, Potsdam, USA) The Public Intellectual in Texcoco: From Nezahualcoyotl and Nezahualpilli to Fernando and Bartolomé Alva Ixtlilxochitl Alan Durston (York University, Canada) Cristóbal Choquecasa, Francisco de Avila, and the Huarochirí Manuscript Susan Schroeder (Tulane University, USA) Chimalpahin and Why Women Matter
14.30 - 15.30	Discussion
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.45	Tristan Platt (University of St Andrews, UK) Final commentary, followed by general discussion.

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