Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas: Textualities, Intellectual Disputes, Intercultural Transfers

A conference at the Clark Library, April 8-9, 2005
Arranged by Marc André Bernier, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Universität des Saarlandes

Friday, April 8
9:30 A.M.	Coffee
10:00 A.M.	Welcome Peter H. Reill, UCLA Introduction Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Universität des Saarlandes Session I - Textualities Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach Chair Réal Ouellet, Université Laval Pierre Pelleprat’s Accounts of the Jesuit Missions in the Antilles and in Guyana (1) Marc André Bernier, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Pierre Pelleprat’s Accounts of the Jesuit Missions in the Antilles and in Guyana (2) Margaret R. Ewalt, Wake Forest University The Legacy of Joseph Gumilla's Orinoco Illustrated
12:30PM	Lunch
2:30 P.M.	Session II – Images of Empire Marc André Bernier, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Chair Eileen Willingham, University of Iowa Imagining the Kingdom of Quito: Reading History and National Identity in Juan de Velasco's Historia del Reino de Quito Beatriz de Alba-Koch, University of Victoria For Love of Patria: Locating Self and Nation in Clavijero's Rendition of the Conquest of Mexico Girolamo Imbruglia, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Jesuit Missions of Paraguay between Apostolic Evangelization and Catholic Utopianism
4:30 P.M.	Reception

Saturday, April 9
9:30 A.M	Coffee
10:00 A.M.	Session III – Intellectual Disputes Catherine Komisaruk, California State University, Long Beach Chair Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier, Universidade Federal do Ceará Religious Writings in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Brazil and the Anti-Jesuitic Thrust of José Basílio da Gama's O Uraguai Ute Fendler, Universität des Saarlandes Changing Perspectives: the Other, the Self, the In-between of the Jesuit Experience in the Eighteenth-Century Karen Stolley, Emory University East from Eden: Domesticating Exile in Jesuit Accounts of their 1767 Expulsion from Spanish America
12:00 P.M.	Lunch
2:00 P.M.	Session IV – Intellectual Transfers Peter H. Reill, UCLA Chair Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Universität des Saarlandes Romantizing the Jesuit Accounts on South America - Martin Dobrizhoffer's History of the Abiponi between Ethnology and Romantic Discourse Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach “Ninguno habla las lenguas major que ellos”: Converting Shamans in Filippo Salvatore Gilij’s Saggio di Storia Americana 1780-1784 Perla Chinchilla Pawling, Universidad Iberoamericana From Sacred Rhetoric to the Republic of Letters: Jesuit Sermons in Seventeenth-Century New Spain
4:00 P.M.	Closing Remarks Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Universität des Saarlandes

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