ENGLISH | ESPAÑOL
Tepoztlán, Morelos, México | 19 - 26 of July, 2017
Call for participants
In its thirteenth year, the Tepoztlán Institute seeks to honor our collaborator and friend, the late historian María Elena Martínez. We invite scholarship that, like hers, is devoted to the transformative study of the colonial world: how it was raced, sexed, gendered, and made intelligible for contemporaries and scholars in the present. Martínez combined high theory and deep archival research, and drew together the medieval, colonial, and contemporary worlds to turn an unflinching gaze on Iberian empires and their global legacies. In the tradition of her omnivorous, courageous intellect, we welcome applications from those concerned with historical or other (inter) disciplinary methods and with the present political interventions that such method informs.
As creative as she was rigorous, our late colleague reflected piercingly on the silences of the archive, and on the place of performance, experience, and embodiment in writing history. Tepoztlán 2017 seeks to continue this conversation by inviting submissions on the making and use of archives. This year’s theme also offers the opportunity to consider continuities and discontinuities from the colonial period until today, and possible decolonial/postcolonial futures, fantasies, and utopias. Various incarnations and disciplinary enunciations of postcolonial and decolonial theories formulated through Native American and Indigenous studies, Chicano studies, Africana literary critique and Feminist studies among others, have offered critical lenses to diagnose dynamics and structures of power. They have also offered potent platforms to contest regimes of violence, exploitation and normalization, and reimagine and materialize other worlds. Scholarly and artistic work in these veins is encouraged for Tepoztlán 2017.
Interweaving the past, present and future of colonial occupations and interventions, then, this year’s Institute examines the structural, material, ideological and spectral legacies we have inherited. The Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas dedicates its 2017 meeting to María Elena Martínez’s example, and calls for participants whose work she would recognize, contest, contribute to and learn from.
Please submit the online application by January 15, 2017 here.
As creative as she was rigorous, our late colleague reflected piercingly on the silences of the archive, and on the place of performance, experience, and embodiment in writing history. Tepoztlán 2017 seeks to continue this conversation by inviting submissions on the making and use of archives. This year’s theme also offers the opportunity to consider continuities and discontinuities from the colonial period until today, and possible decolonial/postcolonial futures, fantasies, and utopias. Various incarnations and disciplinary enunciations of postcolonial and decolonial theories formulated through Native American and Indigenous studies, Chicano studies, Africana literary critique and Feminist studies among others, have offered critical lenses to diagnose dynamics and structures of power. They have also offered potent platforms to contest regimes of violence, exploitation and normalization, and reimagine and materialize other worlds. Scholarly and artistic work in these veins is encouraged for Tepoztlán 2017.
Interweaving the past, present and future of colonial occupations and interventions, then, this year’s Institute examines the structural, material, ideological and spectral legacies we have inherited. The Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas dedicates its 2017 meeting to María Elena Martínez’s example, and calls for participants whose work she would recognize, contest, contribute to and learn from.
Please submit the online application by January 15, 2017 here.
Our focus on the broad themes of historical practice and de/post/colonialism could include these and other channels of inquiry:
- Activism, artivism, and advocacy
- The formation of colonial subjects around notions of race, gender, sexuality, class, ableism, labor, faith, caste, etc.
- Slavery, race and the normalization of violence.
- Scientific-indigenous, and other epistemologies
- Transnational colonial archipelagic studies
- Performing the archive (embodiment and voice in the archive)
- Chronological continuities and ruptures, utopias, imaginaries and fantasies
- Feminist, queer, and trans histories, literatures, ethnographies, philosophies and practices
- Colonization and decolonization and affect
- Genealogies of knowledge and disciplines from the colonial period to the present
- Moral economy of the colonial period.
- Differences and intersections between indigenous and African colonization and enslavement.
- The state, multilateral organizations, and NGOs
- Comparative legacies of colonialism in the Americas (Iberian word and beyond including Suriname, Belize, Guyana, etc.)
- Case studies on contemporary colonial practices (e.g. pipelines, new mining practices in Mexico and Chile, etc.)
- The formation of colonial subjects around notions of race, gender, sexuality, class, ableism, labor, faith, caste, etc.
- Slavery, race and the normalization of violence.
- Scientific-indigenous, and other epistemologies
- Transnational colonial archipelagic studies
- Performing the archive (embodiment and voice in the archive)
- Chronological continuities and ruptures, utopias, imaginaries and fantasies
- Feminist, queer, and trans histories, literatures, ethnographies, philosophies and practices
- Colonization and decolonization and affect
- Genealogies of knowledge and disciplines from the colonial period to the present
- Moral economy of the colonial period.
- Differences and intersections between indigenous and African colonization and enslavement.
- The state, multilateral organizations, and NGOs
- Comparative legacies of colonialism in the Americas (Iberian word and beyond including Suriname, Belize, Guyana, etc.)
- Case studies on contemporary colonial practices (e.g. pipelines, new mining practices in Mexico and Chile, etc.)