[CANCELED] The Relaciones Geograficas de Indias as Negotiated Space

Department: History

Date and Time: January 6, 2022 | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM

Event Location: KH 200E and Zoom

Event Details

---

This event has been canceled. 

The Relaciones Geograficas de Indias as Negotiated Space

Presented by:
Carla Hernández Garavito, University of California, Santa Cruz

During the 16th century, the Spanish Crown moved to compile a comprehensive knowledge of its American landholdings to materialize the idea of a unified and "civilized" empire. Peninsular officials sent questionnaires to the Americas, including a request for “paintings” of the urban and natural landscape, without much detail on the project’s guidelines. The varied responses sent back to Spain are known as the Relaciones Geograficas de Indias. This presentation investigates the cultural negotiations and emerging consciousness of a new post-colonization identity among Andean communities embedded in one such painting from the Peruvian highland region of Huarochirí. By analyzing colonial period sources, incorporating archeological research, and using spatial modeling, this talk underscores the different portrayals of space coexisting in a single map and examines how colonial tools of oppression could we appropriated – intentionally or not – as to incorporate and reinvent indigenous understandings of place, community, and identity.

Sponsored by: UCI Illuminations, UCI Humanities Core, UCI Latin American Studies, and UCI History Department

For disabilities accommodations, questions, and information, please contact Rachel O'Toole at rotoole@uci.edu.