Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and his Royal Commentaries (1609, 1617):

A Rereading for the 21^st Century

 Symposium dates: October 15-16

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October 15,  Graduate Center, City University of New York

365 Fifth Ave. (@NE corner of 34^th St.)

Thursday, October 15, 6.00-8.15 pm, Skylight Room (9100),

Graduate Center, CUNY

Welcome remarks by Distinguished Professor Lía Schwartz, Executive Officer,

Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literatures

Session  I, 6:00-7:00 pm: Chair,  Juan Carlos Mercado, CCNY-Graduate Center

1. Los Comentarios reales en la vida y el menester indiano del licenciado

Cristóbal Cacho de Santillana (1599-1641),

Carlos Alberto González Sánchez, Universidad de Sevilla

2. El Inca y la cruz: los Comentarios reales se persignan,

José Antonio Mazzotti, Tufts University

3. Los Incas en la corte de Luis XIII: Jean Baudoin y su traducción al francés de la

primera parte de los Comentarios reales (1633),

Sonia V. Rose, Université  Paris-Sorbonne

Session II, 7:00-8:00 pm: Chair, Beatriz Peña, St. Lawrence University

1.  La desmarginalización del discurso en la Historia general del Perú,

Song I. No, Purdue University

2. Noticias del imperio: la crisis financiera de España en la segunda parte

de los Comentarios reales del Inca Garcilaso de la Vega,

Christian Fernández, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

3. Desde la orilla española: modelos y huellas de los Comentarios reales,

Rocío Oviedo Pérez de Tudela, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

For information, please call: GC:1212.817.8410 / CCNY: 1212.650.6731

Activities are free and open to the public.

October 16,  Americas Society, @ 68^th St. and Park Avenue

Friday, October 16: 6:00-8:00 pm, The Americas Society

Welcome remarks by Susan Segal, President and CEO, Americas Society

Session III, 6:00-7:00 pm (in English): Chair, Alfred Mac Adam, Barnard College-Columbia University

1. Inca Myths of Origin and the Construction of  the Royal Commentaries,

Juan M. Ossio A., Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

2. Regarding Colonialism in Garcilaso’s Historia general del Perú,  

Margarita Zamora, University of Wisconsin, Madison

3. Modern Nativist Readings of Garcilaso in Peru,

Thomas Ward, Loyola University, Maryland

Session IV, 7:05-7:45 pm (in Spanish with simultaneous translation)

Mario Vargas Llosa conversa/converses  con/with Raquel Chang-Rodríguez de/on: 

Comentarios reales en su 4to Centenario/ Royal Commentaries on its 4^th Centenary 

Closing remarks by Daniel Shapiro, Director, Department of Literature, Editor of Review, Americas Society

Reservations: Americas Society Members:  membersres@americas-society.org  or (212) 277-8359, ext. 4; Non-Members:  Reservations will open on Thursday, October 8.  Visit  www.americas-society.org

Sponsoring Institutions: The Americas Society; The City College of New York, CUNY: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, The Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts; The Graduate Center, CUNY: Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages; The Reed Foundation; Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and U.S. Universities; Colonial Latin American Review; Consulate General of Peru in New York.

Symposium coordinators: Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, CCNY-Graduate Center, CUNY;

                                              Daniel Shapiro,The Americas Society