The Central American Studies Working Group and Indigenous Material and Visual Culture of the Americas Working Group invite you to attend a mock job-talk by Carlos Rivas, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art History at UCLA

Tuesday, November 27, 2018
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095

What does it mean to look from above?

In 1768, the newly appointed Archbishop of the colonial Diocese of Guatemala, Pedro Cortes y Larraz, conducted a census of the Diocese and journeyed for three years across much of what is today Guatemala and all of El Salvador to produce a highly-detailed atlas, the Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala. This talk examines thirty-seven aerial maps from the Descripción that collectively depict the entire land surface of El Salvador. My discussion positions these maps not as objective cartography, but as politicized landscapes that narrate a colonial imagining of El Salvador as a territorial possession during what were turbulent times for Spain's administration of its American colonies.

Carlos is completing a dissertation on eighteenth-century Central America and will be presenting some of his research in a public forum, description and flyer below. Food and refreshments will be served, please RSVP at http://bit.ly/2DDBh0H so that we know how many lunches to order.

Cost : Free & Open to the Public

Download file: mock-job-talk-updated-tr-1m1.pdf

Sponsor(s): Central American Studies Working Group, Latin American Institute, Indigenous Material and Visual Culture of the Americas Working Group (IMVCA), Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies