Program

9:30-10:00 a.m.
Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Introduction

10:00-11:00 a.m.
Ilona Katzew, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
"Classifying Colonial Mexico: The Case of Joaquín Antonio de Basarás"

11:00-11:15 a.m. Break

11:15-12:15 a.m.
Carlos López Beltrán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
"Blood and Temperament; Purity and Mestizaje in Castas Society"

12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00-3:00 p.m.
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
"Race in British America: Reality and Appearance"

3:00-4:00 p.m.
Magali Carrera, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
"Mapping the Territory of the Body in the Visual Practices of New Spain"

4:00-4:15 p.m. Break

4:15-5:15 p.m.
Nicolás Wey-Gómez, Brown University
"Nature, Place, and Political Hierarchy in Columbus's Invention of the Amerindian Tropics"

5:30-7:00 p.m. Reception