Program

10–11:20am Session 1: Revisiting Philology as National History

Rebecca de Souza, “Re-writing Race in the Nineteenth-Century Afterlives of Los siete infantes de Lara” 

José Luis Nogales Baena, “The Origin of an Hypothesis: the ‘Crónica X’ and its Nineteenth-Century Heritage”

Gabriela Goldin Marcovich, “Editing Mexican National History. Bustamante and Early Hispanic Books and Manuscripts” 

Moderated by Noel Blanco Mourelle (University of Chicago)

11:30am–1pm Session 2: Editors Shaping History, History Shaping Editors

Mario Cossío Olavide, “Editar la Edad Media en el siglo XIX. El caso de Escritores en prosa anteriores al siglo XV de Pascual de Gayangos” 

Miguel Ibáñez-Aristondo, “Making History Al Vivo: José Fernando Ramírez and the Publication of Diego Durán’s Historia de las Indias de Nueva España (1867-1880)”

Jannette Amaral-Rodríguez, “Alfredo Chavero’s Historia de Tlaxcala (1892): An Ideological and Methodological Inquiry”

Moderated by Jaime Marroquín (Western Oregon University)

1–2:30pm Lunch break
2:30–3:50pm Session 3: Authorship, Gesture, Palimpsest 

Anita Savo, “Medieval Authorship in the Nineteenth Century: A Case Study of the Conde Lucanor

David Horacio Colmenares, “Tlatoltequitiliztli: Nahua Scribal Practices in Nineteenth-century Mexico” 

Mayra Bottaro, “Postcolonial (Printed) Lives that Remain: Palimpsestic Temporalities in 19th-Century Editions of Martín del Barco Centenera’s Argentina…” 

Moderated by Adela Pineda (Boston University)

4–5pm

“Translation Generation: Constructing the Colonial Encyclopedia in a Lisbon Printing-House

Keynote lecture by Neil Safier

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