Symposium: Day 3

Symposium: Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World

LACMA and UCLA are co-sponsoring a major international three-day symposium in conjunction with the special exhibition Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, which brings together thirty of the most distinguished scholars in the field from Mexico, South America, Europe, and the United States.

On Sunday, December 4, the symposium takes place at LACMA.

Bing Theater | Free, no reservations | Printable Schedule | View Abstracts

8:45–9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:00–10:30 | SESSION 1
Local Cults: Transformation and Negotiation

Contested Visions and Conversion in Colonial Mexico: The Cult of Saint Anne
Charlene Villaseñor Black, UCLA

Material Choices: Representing the Virgin’s Domesticity in Colonial Mexico
Luisa Elena Alcalá, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Remedies for Mexico City: The Urban Devotion of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios
Rosario Granados Salinas, Harvard University

Discussant: William A. Christian, Jr., Independent scholar

10:30–10:45 Break

10:45–12:15 | SESSION 2
Ritual, Consensus, and Subversion in Colonial Festivals

“Parody of the Long-Gone America”:The Construction of Festive Rites in Colonial Mexico
Ilona Katzew, LACMA

Past Performances: Indigenous Processions in Colonial Mexico
Edward Osowski, John Abbot College, Montreal

Ritual, Public Space, and Indigenous Engagement in the Colonial Andes
Gabriela Ramos, Cambridge University

Discussant: Linda Curcio-Nagy, University of Nevada, Reno

12:15–1:30 Lunch Break

1:30–3:20 | SESSION 3
Memory, Genealogy, and Land

Cords of Memory, from Viceroyalty to Village
Frank Salomon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lineage and Leadership: The Portrait of Doña Juana María Cortés Chimalpopoca
Mónica Domínguez Torres, University of Delaware

Lines of Descent: Indian, Mestizo, and Criollo in the “Genealogical Tree of the Royal Line of Texcoco”
Eduardo de Jesús Douglas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Christian Nobles and Noble Christians: Paintings of the Inca and the Social Strategies of Indigenous Elites in Cuzco and Lima
Janet Stephens, Georgia State University 

Discussants: Ethelia Ruiz Medrano, INAH; Natalia Majluf, Museo de Arte de Lima

3:20–4:00 | Concluding Discussion
Susan Deans-Smith, University of Texas at Austin

5:00–6:00 Curator-Led Exhibition Tour
Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World
LACMA, Resnick Pavilion