Classical Traditions in Latin American History - 19-20/05/2016, London (England)

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 19-20/05/2016

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Lecture Room, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square (London, England)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Andrew Laird (Warwick/Brown University; Nicola Miller (UCL)

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Conference fees (including lunch and refreshments)

Standard rate: £40.00 for 2 days / £25.00 for 1 day only

Concessions (students/retired): £25.00 for 2 days / £12.50 for 1 day only

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

PROGRAMME - Thursday 19 May 2016

12.30

Registration and Welcome Lunch

1.15

Welcome: DAVID FREEDBERG

Introduction: ANDREW LAIRD AND NICOLA MILLER

1.30

Panel 1. The Invention of Origins

Chair: Barbara Goff, University of Reading

ANDREW LAIRD, University of Warwick/Brown University: Conflicts of Classical Legacies in Latin America

NICOLA MILLER, UCL: Classical Motifs in Spanish American Nation-building: Looking Beyond the Letrados

ERIC CULLHED, Uppsala University: “Born with the Wrinkles of Byzantium”: Unclassical Traditions in Latin America

Panel Respondent: JORGE CAÑIZARES-ESGUERRA, University of Texas (Austin)

3.30

Tea

4.00

Panel 2. Nature, Culture and Knowledge

Chair: Andrew Laird, University of Warwick/Brown University

NATALIA MAILLARD ALVAREZ, Universidad Pablo de Olavide: Early Circulation ofClassical Books from Europe in New Spain and Peru

ALEJANDRA ROJAS, The Ohio State University: Indigenous and Classical Conventions and Iconography in the Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis (Mexico, 1552)

BYRON ELLSWORTH HAMANN, The Ohio State University: The higa and the tlachialoni: Material Cultures of Seeing in the Mediterratlantic

ERIKA VALDIVIESO, Brown University: The Inca Garcilaso in Dialogue with Neo-Platonism

•Panel Respondent: REBECCA EARLE, University of Warwick

6.15

Reception

7.30

Dinner

PROGRAMME - Friday 20 May 2016

10.00

Coffee

10.15

Panel 3. Politics of Language, Rhetoric and Literature

Chair: Peter Mack, University of Warwick

ANDREW LAIRD, University of Warwick/Brown University: Mixed Antiquities: Innovations of Classical Humanism and Native Legacies in sixteenth-century Mexico and Peru

STUART M. MCMANUS, Harvard University: Humanist Eloquence and Erudition in Colonial Latin America: Reassessing the Funeral Exequies for Philip IV

ROBERT CONN, Wesleyan University: Classicism and the Forging of Institutions and Traditions in Latin America: From Sor Juana to Alfonso Reyes

• Panel Respondent: AVI LIFSCHITZ, UCL

12.30

Lunch

1.30

Panel 4. From Hellenism and Utopia to Patria and Nation

Chair: Nicola Miller, UCL

DESIREE ARBO, University of Warwick: Guaraní Indians, Plato’s Republic and 18th century Americanismo

ELINA MIRANDA, Universidad de La Habana: Greece in José Martí

ROSA ANDÚJAR, UCL: Henríquez Ureña’s Hellenism and the American Utopia

•Panel Respondent: FELIPE FERNANDEZ ARMESTO, University of Notre Dame

3.30

Tea

4.00

Structured Concluding Discussion

ALL PARTICIPANTS

To include: The significance of classical traditions for historians of Latin America;

Implications for the Western tradition;

Directions for future enquiry (further topics to arise from conference discussion)

5.00

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