Presenter: Amber Brian, Associate Professor, Spanish, from the University of Iowa
2019 represents the five-hundred-year anniversary of Hernando Cortés's arrival in Mexico. The period of the Conquest of Mexico from 1519-1521 is a touchstone for the historical and contemporary articulation of Mexican cultural identity. This presentation will explore the history of the conquest and its lasting impact and legacy.
Amber Brian is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Iowa, where she teaches courses about the literature, culture, and history of Latin America. Broadly, her research focuses on the colonial period. Her major publications have focused on the seventeenth-century native intellectual from Mexico don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl. They include Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico (Vanderbilt University Press, 2016) and two collaborative translations of his works, The Native Conquistador: Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Account of the Conquest of New Spain (Penn State University Press, 2015) and History of the Chichimeca Nation: Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Seventeenth-Century Chronicle of Ancient Mexico (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).
This Global Gathering Mexico program is supported by our Title Sponsor Terrostar Interactive Media, our Authorized Edition sponsor Morgan Stanley, and the Bettendorf Public Library Foundation. This event is also a collaboration between the Bettendorf Public Library and the World Affairs Council of the Quad Cities.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | World Culture | History | Author Event |
TAGS: | web | social media | Mexico |
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