Issue 3:4, November 2015 Welcome from the Chair ................................................................................................................. 2 Note from the Outgoing Editor ....................................................................................................... 3 Honors, Awards, and Promotions ................................................................................................... 3 Member Publications ...................................................................................................................... 4 Graduate Student News................................................................................................................... 6 Other News ..................................................................................................................................... 7 In the Shadow of Cortés: From Veracruz to Mexico City ......................................................... 7 Opportunities and Calls for Papers ................................................................................................. 8 TROPOS ..................................................................................................................................... 8 2016 Book Prize in Colonial Latin American Studies ............................................................... 8 Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) .................................................................. 9 Colonial Sessions at AHA 2016 ..................................................................................................... 9 Colonial Sessions at MLA 2016 ................................................................................................... 39 Resources ...................................................................................................................................... 52 About the Colonial Section of LASA and Colonia/Colônia ......................................................... 52 Welcome from the Chair I am honored to serve as chair of the Colonial Section for the term 2015-2016. My thanks to Ann de León for her exemplary work as chair (2014-2015) and to Clayton McCarl for serving as acting chair during the 2015 convention in Puerto Rico. The executive committee for 2015-2016 are: Mónica Díaz (vice-chair and chair of awards committee), Pablo García Loaeza (council member and secretary/treasurer), and Kelly McDonough and Ann de León (council members). The editorial staff for this newsletter are Pablo García Loaeza and Clayton McCarl, (co-editors); Alejandro Enríquez (assistant editor); Claudia Berríos, Chloe Ireton, and Mariana Velázquez (graduate student assistant editors); and Rocío Quispe-Agnoli (editorial advisor). I would like to thank them for their wonderful job. I would also like to extend my gratitude to Nathan James Gordon, University of Colorado Boulder, who coordinates our use of social media, and Caroline Egan, Stanford University, who manages our membership information and e-mail list. I am happy to report that three new scholarly venues have been created since 2014 to recognize the work in our field: the Maureen Ahern Doctoral Dissertation Award in Colonial Latin American Studies (first awarded 2014); the prize for the Best Article in Colonial Latin American Studies by a Junior Scholar (first awarded 2015); and the Book Prize of the Colonial Section of the Latin American Studies Association (to be awarded in 2016; see call for nominations in this issue). I thank you for your financial support of these awards, which are vital to the graduate students and junior colleagues in the early stages of the profession. I would like to ask all members to continue to contribute. To do so, you may send a check in any amount to LASA, 416 Bellefield Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, with “Colonial Section’s Awards Fund” on the memo line. I am looking forward to working with all the section members on any idea or project they want to share with us. Sincerely, Raúl Marrero-Fente _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Colonia/Colônia 3:4 November 2015, p. 2 Note from the Outgoing Editor This current issue of Colonia/Colônia marks the end of my tenure as general editor. With great pleasure, I hand over the editorship to Pablo García Loaeza. Pablo has played a central role in this newsletter from the beginning and has co-edited with me issues 3:3 and 3:4. I know that he will provide the leadership and creativity needed to make this publication an increasingly important forum for sharing ideas and promoting an interdisciplinary dialogue about the Latin American colonial world. For the time being, I will continue as the communications manager of the section. In this role I will work with Nathan James Gordon and Caroline Egan, who manage our social media and our email communications, respectively. In parting, I would like to extend my thanks to Pablo, Alejandro Enríquez, Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Claudia Berríos, Chloe Ireton, and Mariana Velázquez for all they have done to make this newsletter a success. I would like to celebrate in particular the work being done on behalf of the Colonial Section by Caroline, Chloe, Claudia, Mariana and Nathan. They are all graduate students, and their energy, talent and enthusiasm speak very well for our group and the future of our field. Sincerely, Clayton McCarl Honors, Awards, and Promotions The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded an NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant of $215,000 to fund “Reading the First Books: Multilingual, Early-Modern OCR for Primeros Libros.” This project seeks to further develop open-source optical character recognition (OCR) software that can be used in the automatic transcription of multilingual early modern printed documents. The grant was developed by Project Director Sergio Romero, Kent Norsworthy, and Hannah Alpert-Abrams at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, in collaboration with a team at Texas A&M University. More information. Eva Mehl’s article “Mexican Recruits and Vagrants in Late Eighteenth-Century Philippines: Empire, Social Order, and Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Pacific World” (HAHR 94.4: 547- 579) was distinguished with an Honorable Mention in the 2015 LACS Kimberly S. Hanger Article Prize awarded by the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association.Rachel Sarah O’toole has been awarded a 2015-2016 John Carter Brown Long-Term Fellowship funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Colonia/Colônia 3:4 November 2015, p. 3 Member Publications This feature showcases the work of section members and serves to keep the community abreast of the latest published research on field-related topics. For guidelines, see the final section of this newsletter. González Undurraga, Carolina. 2014. Esclavos y esclavas demandando justicia. Chile 1740- 1823. Documentación judicial por carta de libertad y papel de venta. Santiago: Editorial Universitaria. La esclavitud africana en la Capitanía General de Chile ha conocido un renovado interés en la historiografía chilena durante la última década. No obstante, quedan múltiples interrogantes por responder, así como una serie de temas y documentación por explorar. Una forma de acercarnos a lo anterior es recurrir a los testimonios de justicia de personas esclavizadas. Estos se encuentran en la documentación judicial conservada por el Archivo Nacional Histórico de Chile. En este volumen se han transcrito 50 autos de pedimento, pleitos o demandas por carta de libertad y papel de venta elevados ante foros de justicia de Santiago. More information. Guengerich, Sara Vicuña. 2015. “Capac Women and the Politics of Marriage in Early Colonial Peru.” Colonial Latin American Review 24.2: 147-167. Marrero-Fente, Raúl. 2015. “Maravilla y épica: La escena de la cornucopia tropical en las Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias de Juan de Castellanos.” Special issue: Maravilla y curiosidades de las Indias, Romance Notes, edited by Álvaro Baraibar, 55: 55-62. ______. 2015. “Piratería, historia y épica en la Elegía XIV de la Primera Parte de las Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias (1589) de Juan de Castellanos.” Special Issue: El período colonial, Revista de Estudios Colombianos, edited by Clayton McCarl, 45: 4-11. ______. 2015. “La tradición clásica en Primera parte de Cortés Valeroso y Mexicana de Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega.” In Clásicos para un Nuevo Mundo. Estudios sobre la tradición clásica en la América de los siglos XVI y XVII, edited by Bernat Garí, with the collaboration of Christian Snoey, 277-290. Bellaterra: Centro para la Edición de los Clásicos Españoles, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Mehl, Eva. M. 2014. “Mexican Recruits and Vagrants in Late Eighteenth-Century Philippines: Empire, Social Order, and Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Pacific World.” Hispanic American Historical Review 94.4: 547-579. Meléndez, Mariselle. 2014. “De Buenos Aires a Lima: Ilustración, espacio y autoría en El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes.” In Una patria literaria, vol.1 of Historia crítica de la literatura argentina, edited by Cristina Iglesias and Loreley El Jaber, 91-102. Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Colonia/Colônia 3:4 November 2015, p. 4 Meléndez, Mariselle and Karen Stolley, eds. 2015. Special issue: The