First International Conference on Inquisition and Empire

I recently served as a co-organizer for a three-day conference focusing on new perspectives on the social and cultural history of the inquisition and/or the extirpation of indigenous devotional practices in Mexico, Peru, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands. This conference took place on February 8-10, 2008, and was hosted by Professor John Chuchiak of Missouri State University.

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Public Lectures

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Azcapotzalco), M.A. Program in Historiography (Mexico City).Cosmología, escritura y disención: Propuestas metodológicas para el estudio de las prácticas religiosas nahuas y zapotecas en el período colonial . 01/18/07.

NEH and John Carter Brown Library Fellow Lecture (Providence, RI).Translated Christianities: Neologisms in Colonial Nahua and Zapotec Devotional Texts . 04/21/04.

Third Annual José Martí Lecture on Freedom and Struggle in the Americas, College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA).Invisible Wars: Native Resistance to Idolatry Extirpation in Colonial Mexico. 02/21/02.

Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York (Albany, NY).Nicachi Songs: Idolatry Extirpation and the Social Reproduction of a Zapotec Ritual Genre . 02/09/01.

Invited Presentations

2008, Inquisition and Empire (Springfield, MO).The Eradication of Indigenous Devotions in Central Mexico: A Comparative Analysis . 02/09/08.

2006, The Francisco Belmar Conference on Otomanguean Languages (Oaxaca City, Mexico).La cosmología colonial zapoteca a través de los cantares de Villa Alta . 04/21/06.

Columbia University, (New York, NY). Andean Art Seminar, Professor Esther Pasztory . From Chimalpahin to Gamio: A Mexican approach to Americanist research . 04/23/05.

2003, Primer Taller de Interculturalidad, 51st International Congress of Americanists (Santiago, Chile).Las guerras invisibles: Proyectos anti-idolátricos y estrategias indígenas en Oaxaca (Nueva España) en el siglo XVII . 07/15/03.

Intellectual Elites and Collective Models in the Iberian World, 16th to 19th centuries, (Madrid, Spain).Letras clandestinas, textos tolerados: las élites intelectuales locales nahuas y zapotecas en el siglo XVII . 01/21/02.

Scholes Conference on Colonial Latin American History, Tulane University (New Orleans, LA).En manos de Dios Padre : Idolatry Extirpation Campaigns and Native Resistance in Villa Alta, Oaxaca, 1679 to 1704 . 03/30/01.

International Seminar on the Eighteenth Century (Los Angeles, CA).The interplay of native political autonomy and ritual practices in Villa Alta (New Spain) . 08/1-6/00.

The Indigenous Voice of Oaxaca, University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA).The Cantares Zapotecos of Villa Alta . 05/20/00.

Third International Conference on Cultural Mediators, CONDUMEX (Mexico City).De Cantares zapotecos a 'libros del demonio': Un género doctrinal híbrido . 09/29/99.

International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, MA) . Boundaries of evangelization: From ideologies of translation to dialectics of reception in early and mid-colonial Nahua doctrinal genres . Harvard University, 08/14/98.

Recent Conference Papers (2002-08)

2007, American Society for Ethnohistory (Tulsa, OK).Zapotec Time, Alphabetic Writing and the Public Sphere . 11/07/07.

2007, Latin American Studies Association (Montréal, Canada).Resistencias invisibles: La erosión de religiosidades alternas en en el México colonial . 09/05/07.

2007, Renaissance Society of America (Miami, FL).Rethinking Time in Seventeenth-Century Central Mexico . 03/22/07.

2007, American Historical Association (Atlanta, GA).Legally Indian: Inquisitorial Readings of Indigenous Identities in Central Mexico . 01/07/07.

2005, Sixth International Ethnohistory Conference (Buenos Aires, Argentina).Escritura y disención: Resistencia y cosmologías alternas en el México colonial . 11/24/05.

2005, Society for the Anthropology of Religion (Vancouver, Canada).Clandestine Devotions, Local Cosmologies: A Colonial Zapotec Ritual Song Corpus . 04/9/05.

2004, American Society for Ethnohistory (Chicago, IL).Translated Christianities: Language ideologies in colonial Nahua and Zapotec devotional discourse . 11/30/04.

2004, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (Santa Fe, NM).Autonomy, Honor, and the Ancestors: Local Devotions in Colonial Oaxaca . 03/13/04.

2004, American Historical Association (Washington, DC).From Shibboleths to Practices: Inquisitorial Readings of Native Identity in New Spain . 01/10/04.

2003, XI Meeting of Mexican, US & Canadian Historians (Monterrey, Mexico).Escritura, espacios clandestinos y resistencia: La extirpación de idolatrías en el siglo XVII . 10/02/03.

2003, 51st International Congress of Americanists (Santiago, Chile).Tierra e identidad comunitaria: Idolatrías y espacios de disención en Oaxaca, siglos XVII-XVIII . 07/16/03.

2002, American Society for Ethnohistory (Quebec, Canada).Zapotec Clandestine Ritual Songs: How to Read Colonial Oral Genres . 10/16/02.