The Renaissances Graduate Research Series: Race and Translation
Speakers): Caroline Egan and Larissa Brewer-García
Please join us on MONDAY MAY 16 for“Race and Translation,” the third event of our Renaissances Graduate Research Series, a series of conversations between advanced Ph.D. students at èצӰ and interlocutors of their work.
The event will take place at lunch timefrom 12 to 1:30pm, in 260-216.
For our Spring Event, Caroline Egan,Ph.D. candidate, in the Department of Comparative Literatureat èצӰ, andLarissa Brewer-García,Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature, at the University of Chicago, will discuss Egan’s project: "Blood and Milk: New World Orality in theComentariosreales."
In her dissertation, Egan studies how multilingual actors, particularly mestizos and missionaries, theorized and reinvented indigenous languages in historical, linguistic, lyric, and ethnographic works. This chapter focuses on the historiographicRoyal Commentaries of the Incas(1609, 1617) by the mestizo writer El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616). In her discussion with Professor Brewer-García, Egan wishes to reflect on the relationship between race and acts of translation in early colonial Spanish America.
Caroline Egan andLarissa Brewer-Garcíawill briefly present theirworks in progress: selections fromEgan’s dissertation chapter and ProfessorBrewer-García’s paper“Captured Tongues: Jesuit Interpreters of the Early Black Atlantic.” These presentations willset up points of intersection between the two projectsand we will then open the floor to discussion and questions.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the event!
Please RSVP to:cecile2 [at] stanford.edu (cecile2[at]stanford[dot]edu)ǰhsd [at] stanford.edu (hsd[at]stanford[dot]edu)