Mesoamerican time before and after the Spanish invasion

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Dear Listeros:

I am writing to invite all those of you who reside in the Baya Area of
thereabouts to a colloquium on "Meosamerican time before and after the
Spanish invasion." I am enclosing the program below.

Best wishes,

Jose Rabasa, Chair
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720

Tel. 510-642-2105
Fax 510- 642-69-57

Mesoamerican Time
before and after the Spanish invasion
 
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 120 Stevens Hall


9-10
Kathleen Davis (English, Princeton University)
³¹Times take their names from measure¹: Periodization and Political Theology
in the Work of Bede²
Discussant: Felipe Rojas
 
10:15-11:15
Gordon Brotherston (Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford)
³The Feathered Crown: The Mesoamerican Era and Gregorian Calendar Reform"
Discussant: Heather McMichael
 
11:30-12:30
Johanna Broda (Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM)
"Time and Space in Ancient Mesoamerica"
Discussant: Beatriz Reyes-Cortés
 
1:30-2:30
Johannes Neurath (Museo Nacional de Antropología, INAH)
"A 17th Century Cora Calendar Compared to Contemporary Huichol and Cora
Practices"
Discussant: Chrissy Arce
 
2:45-3:45
José Rabasa (Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley)
³The Colonial Divide²
Discussant:  Stephanie Schmidt
 
4-5
Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco (Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley)
"Entropy"
Discussant: Seth Kimmel

5:45-6:30  
Assessment of colloquium
 
Semmycolon (Seminario de Estudios Medievales, Modernos y Coloniales) brings
together a multidisciplinary group of lecturers and graduate students to
conduct research into culture, literature, arts, history, and politics from
the Middle Ages to the early 18th Century in both the Western and the
Colonial worlds. 
 
Sponsored by: The Townsend Center for the Humanities, The Center for Latin
American Studies (CLAS), and the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese,
Medieval Studies, and Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley






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