PCCLAS will be at CSULA, and our panel will be on 10/29/2011.
Here is the info:
Panel 17: The Complexities of Nueva España: Creation, Contention, Fusion, and Disintegration
SH C 136
Chair: E.A. Polanco (UCR)
Carlos Rivas (UCLA), ““The Rise and Fall of the Republic of Central America: Art, Cultural Synthesis, Homogenization, and the Problem(s) of National Identity””
Dominique Garcia (UCR), “Indigenous Agency through Religious Artistic Practices in Colonial Michoacán”
Steven Anderson (UCR), “A Fluid Foundation: Water and the Natural Environment in Early Colonial Mexico, 1325-1608.””
E. A. Polanco (UCR), “The Cult of Life and Death: Nahua Midwives as Priestesses.”
Rebecca Dufendach (UCLA), ““Disease in the Florentine Codex””