2005 ANNUAL MEETING

19 November - Noon Session

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Nahuatl Theater: Staging Colonial Identities

Chair:   Susan Schroeder

Organizer:    Louise Burkhart: Humor in Baroque Nahuatl Drama

Presenters:

Viviana Diaz Balsera: Celebrating the Triumph of the Eucharist: The Tlaxcalans Conquer Jerusalem in 1539

Barry D. Sell: Cultural Change and Continuity in Don Bartolome de Alva's Nahuatl Translations of Spanish Golden-Age Drama

Stafford Poole: Race, Gender, and Social Class in Guadalupan Nahuatl Drama

Discussant: John Frederick Schwaller:  

Between Worlds: Negotiating Native Boundaries

Chairs: Jean O'Brien & William Hart: To interpret faithfully...whether you believe it or not": Jonathan Pointer, Black Interpreter to the Wyandots

Presenters:

Rachel Wheeler and Kate Cart Engel: The "Brown Hearts" of Gnadenhutten: The Theology and Economics of Identity at a Moravian Mission Site

Nancy Shoemaker: American "Squaw Men" on the Fiji Frontier

Discussant:   Susan Sleeper-Smith

Zia B: Bio-graphing Border Lives Beyond the Archives

Chair: Linda Waggoner: A Blot on Hampton: Angel DeCora's Letter to Folsom    

Presenters:

Michael Willard: Circulating Products, Reproducing Race: Duke Kahanamoku Memorabilia from the Bishop Museum to E-Bay

Joel Minor: Preserving Reservation Narratives

Matthew Francis Bokovoy: Using Archives, Narrating Lives: New Mexico, Southwest Exploration, and Indian-White Relations in the Borderlands, 1880-1920

Zia A: Event, Place, and Indigenous Northwest Coast Borderlands

Chair: Keith Carlson: “Events, Migrations and History In Coast Salish Collective Identity Formation"

Organizer:  John Bowes: TBA

Presenters:

Byron Plant: TBA

Lissa Wadewitz: “After 1846: Native vs. Newcomer Cartographies in the Western Canada-U.S. Borderlands"

Discussant:   Jay Miller

De Vargas: Archaeology & Frontier Zones

Chairs: Thomas D. Hall: Frontiers as Zones of Interaction: Finding the Buddha in the Shard Pile

Karl Lambach: La Cañada Alamosa: An Archaeological Frontier in West- Central New Mexico

Presenters:

Robert Schon: Frontiers and Fronts: Prioritizing Conflict in the Balkans

Zachary Chase: Border Disputes and Broader Negotiations: ‘Sub-liminals,' boundaries, and the dialogic performance of/on the margins in Lima’s colonial Archdiocese

Sebastian Braun: 'They should not Speak French' and 'We are not really Swiss': Borders and Boundaries in the Regio Basiliensis

12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Zia B: Brownbag: Religion, Ethnicity, & Identity

Organizer: Stephanie May de Montigny: Sawdust, Beer, and God in Oshkosh, Wisconsin   Presenters:

Anne-Marie Liberio: Intertribal relations, Christian Indians, and missionaries in the 16th and 17th-century Portuguese and British Americas

Thomas Johnson: Mormon Conversions among the Shoshone

Blanca Tovías: "The Blackfoot Encounter with Colonialism: Religion and Resistance

Zia A: Brownbag: Place, People, and Contested Spaces

Organizer: Carla Gerona: Literary accounts on a contested borderland: Texas in the early 1800s       

Presenters:

James Morrison: The Gens des Terres are not an Ethnic Group

Luke Ryan: “They still threaten to drive us from our homes”: Claiming Treaty Rights/Making Civil War(s) in Early Kansas

Gwendolyn Saul: Place in Perspective: an ethnohistorical analysis of a Navajo community

Dianna Doucette: Connecting Landscapes to the Past:  Cultural Continuity and Abandonment in Southeastern New England