London

Sites of Invention

Latin America and the Global History of Historical and Anthropological Knowledge

June 9-10, 2017

Welcome: Mark Thurner (University of London), ‘Sites of Invention and the LAGLOBAL Project.’

Keynote: Serge Gruzinski (EHESS/CNRS/Princeton University), ‘When King Joash met tlatoani Acamapichtli:  Writing History in the New World, 16th century’

WRITING NEW HISTORIES OF OLD KNOWLEDGES

Chair: Linda Newson (University of London), Andrew Laird (Brown University/University of Warwick), ‘The Indigenous Past and the World Stage in Colonial Mexico,’ Mark Thurner (University of London), ‘Peru as Locus Historiae: On the Indian Genealogies of Historiography and Anthropology,’ Peter Burke (Cambridge University), ‘How the History of Knowledge in Brazil might be Written,’ Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (University of Texas), ‘Creole Erudition: The Cutting Edge of Catholic Knowledge.’ Discussant: Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick)

MAPPING MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHIES

Chair: Lina del Castillo (University of Texas)Guillermo Zermeño (COLMEX), ¿Cómo escribir una historia mínima de la historiografía en México?, [How to Write a Concise History of Mexican Historiography?], Leóncio López-Ocón (IH-CSIC), De los historiadores humboldtianos a los americanistas positivistas’, [From the Humboldtean Historians to the Americanist Positivists.], Catriona McAllister (Brunel University), ‘Imagining Patria: History and the Public Sphere in Argentina’, Elías Palti (University of Buenos Aires/CONICET), ‘The New Political and Conceptual History of the Republic,’ Discussant: Mark Thurner (University of London)

MAPPING CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGIES

Chair: Carlos Espinosa (FLACSO), Julia Rodriguez (University of New Hampshire), ‘Skull Hunters on the Pampas: Uncanny Encounters in Argentina’s Conquest of the Desert,’ Karin Rosemblatt (University of Maryland), ‘Mexican Anthropology and Inter-American Knowledge,’ Mercedes Prieto (FLACSO), ‘Fragments of a Global Discourse: Memories of the Andean Indigenista Programme,’ Cristina Soriano (Villanova University), ‘Slavery and Subaltern Studies in the Work of Miguel Acosta Saignes.’ Discussant: Tristan Platt (University of St Andrews)