Borderlands of the Iberian World
First International Authors’ Colloquium, Mexico City, 13-16 March 2014
Program
March 13: Participants’ arrival in Mexico City, distribution to their assigned lodging, free time.
March 14: Inauguration, Public Presentation, and Authors’ Workshops at Casa Rafael Galván,
located at Zacatecas # 94, col. Roma Norte, under the auspices of Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco.
9:30 AM. Official opening with representatives from UAM, CIESAS, MEXRE, UNC &
CAORC.
10:00 AM. Overview of book project and discussion of borderlands concept, by
co-editors D. Levin Rojo and C. Radding.
10:30 AM. Keynote address by Guillermo Wilde.
11:30 AM. Coffee break.
12:00 – 14:30. First and Second Parallel Workshops.
Workshop 1
Chapter
Title
Author
Chapter 1
Food Security and Resistant Peoples
Amy Turner Bushnell
Chapter 2
Crafting Landscapes in the Iberian
Borderlands of the Americas
Fluctuating Frontiers: Contrasts and
Interactions in the Mesoamerican
Borderlands
Cynthia Radding
Chapter 3
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Fernando Berrojalbiz
Marie Areti- Hers
Workshop 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
“Indian Friends and Allies” in the
Colonization of Spanish Imperial
Borderlands
Indigenous Co-colonizers on New Spain’s
Southern Frontier
The Borderlands of Caribbean Central
America, 1575-1800: Interaction and
Conflict among Indigenous Peoples, Friars,
Soldiers and Pirates
Danna Levin Rojo
Sean F. McEnroe
Juan Carlos Solórzano Fonseca
Alejandra Boza Villarreal
14:30-15:45. Lunch
16:00-19:00. Third and Fourth Parallel Workshops
(with coffee break at 17:30)
Workshop 3
Chapter 7
Chapter 12
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Connections and Circulation in the
Southern Andes from Colony to Republic
Terra Incognita: Franciscan Cartography
and Territorial Expansion on New Spain's
Northern Frontier
Musical Cultures of the Ibero-American
Borderlands
Indigenous Art and Christian Subject
Formation: On Becoming Guaraní in the
Mission Borderlands of Río de la Plata
Viviana Conti
Riverine Borderlands and Multicultural
Contacts in Central Brazil, 1775-1835
Native Informants and the Limits of Royal
Dominion in Late-Colonial Brazil
Forests of Refuge, Rivers of Exchange:
Allies and Enemies in Eighteenth-Century
Amazonia
The Faces of Colonization in the Eastern
Backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Mary Karasch
José Refugio de la Torre Curiel
Kristin Dutcher Mann
Drew Edward Davies
Kristin Huffine
Workshop 4
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 25
20:00. Reception.
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Hal Langfur
Barbara A. Sommer
Izabel Missagia de Mattos
Saturday, 15 March.
Authors’ Workshops and Plenary Session, Casa Chata, located at Miguel Hidalgo S/N at the
corner of Mariano Matamoros, under the auspices of Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios
Superiores en Antropología Social.
10:00-13:00. Fifth, and Sixth Parallel Workshops.
Workshop 5
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 26
Chapter 32
Interethnic Warfare in Northwestern New
Ignacio Almada Bay
Spain: The Shifting Cultural and Political
José Marcos Medina Bustos
Environments of Indigenous Militias,
1740-1821
Nomadic Groups in the Northern and
Sara Ortelli
Southern Iberian Borderlands: Old and New
Perspectives
The Construction of a Frontier Space:
Interethnic Relations in Northern Bolivia
Frontier Relations Between the Mapuche
People, the Spanish Crown, and the Chilean
State
Russian Incursions into Spanish Territories
in the Northern Pacific, 1741-1821
Pilar García Jordán
Anna Guiteras Mombiola
Jorge M. Pinto Rodríguez
Rio de la Plata as an Atlantic Borderland:
Trans-Imperial Interaction and the
Contested Incorporation of the North Bank
of the Rio de la Plata into the Iberian World
in the 18th Century
Shaping an Inter-imperial Borderland:
Smugglers, Runaway Slaves, and Itinerant
Priests in the Southern Caribbean
The Pacific Borderlands of the Spanish
Empire
Imperial Frontiers at Sea: Maritime
Networks between the Spanish Caribbean
and the Atlantic Ocean
Indigenous Diaspora, Bondage, and
Freedom in Colonial Cuba
Fabricio Prado
Martha Ortega
Workshop 6
Chapter 21
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 31
Linda M. Rupert
Catherine Tracy Goode
José Ronzón León
Jason M. Yaremko
13:00-15:00. Lunch.
15:00-17:45. Seventh and Eighth Parallel Workshops (with coffee break at 17:30).
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Workshop 7
Chapter 8
The Indigenous Peoples of the Royal Road
between Mexico City and Santa Fe
Population and Epidemic Disease North of
Zacatecas
Labyrinths of Mestizaje: Understanding
Cultural Persistence and Transformation in
Northern New Spain
Borderlands in the Silver Mines of New
Spain
Tatiana Seijas
Chapter 13
Mission Geography and Religious Imagery
Clara Bargellini
Chapter 14
Franciscan Mysticism on New Spain’s
Northern Frontier
Frontier Missions in South America:
Religious Adaptations and Cultural
Classifications
Converting the Pacific: Jesuit Networks
between New Spain and Asia
Cecilia Sheridan
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chantal Cramaussel
Susan M. Deeds
Dana Velasco Murillo
Workshop 8
Chapter 17
Chapter 30
Guillermo Wilde
Brandon L. Bayne
17:45 Coffee break
18:00-19:00 Plenary Session
Dinner on your own and in small groups as recommended in areas of the city close to the
participants’ lodging.
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