The Latin American and Iberian Institute presents a spring colloquium, “Interdisciplinary Methods in Colonial Studies: Approaches to the study of texts, images, and space,” Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25 in the Ortega Hall Reading Room on the UNM campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The colloquium is the result of enthusiastic work by the interdisciplinary LAII Colonial Studies Working Group formed with faculty and graduate student participation from history, Spanish and Portuguese – language and literature – art history, archaeology, and anthropology.
“We decided to invite colleagues in our respective fields from other universities to participate in a colloquium of brief formal presentations and plenty of time for discussion about different methods of research and broad conceptual themes,” said Cynthia Radding, LAII director.
Three panels are featured: Texts and Visual Culture, Excluded Voices, and Landscapes and Constructed Space.
“With 20 participants from an array of universities in Texas, Arizona, Illinois, Colorado and from Mexico, we look forward to creative discussions that will help all of us advance in our research and open new interdisciplinary approaches to colonialism, understood here broadly as the experiences of colonized peoples in greater Ibero-America,” she said.
The colloquium is co-sponsored by LAII, the College of Arts and Sciences, the International Studies Institute, and the Office of the Deputy Provost.
For program details, visit: Colonial Studies Colloquium
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at March 24, 2006 10:20 AM