I Jornadas de Cultura, Lengua y Literatura Coloniales
Text by El Centro de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos de UCLA
Photos by Bruce Tran and Nivardo Valenzuela
Famed Mexican writer and scholar Margo Glantz inaugurated the I Jornadas de Cultura, Lengua y Literatura Coloniales conference held at UCLA on November 19-21, 2009 with an informative and delightful presentation titled “El naufragio: ¿crónica, ficción, historia?”.
The event was organized by CECI (Centro de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos), the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese and UC-Mexicanistas. The well attended conference brought together participants from several institutions in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Chile, Argentina, Spain, France and Norway. The thirty papers, gathered into ten panels, demonstrated the vitality and wide range of research being conducted in the field of Colonial Studies today. Selected papers from the conference will be published in 2010.
Other plenary speakers included Professors Sara Poot Herrera (UCSB), Kevin Terraciano (UCLA), María José Rodilla (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), and Claudia Parodi (CECI, UCLA). UCLA participants and presenters included Professor Anna More and CECI members Ángela Helmer, Covadonga Lamar Prieto, Lizy Moromisato, Jimena Rodríguez, Belén Villareal and Bryan Green.
Members of CECI, an interdisciplinary research group housed at UCLA, founded and directed by Prof. Claudia Parodi, are currently working on an annotated edition of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Neptuno alegórico (1680). This project is being conducted in joint collaboration with the Universidad de Navarra’s Grupo Investigación Siglo de Oro (Griso) and it will be published by Iberoamericana Vervuert.
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