The Unique Texts and Images in the Colonial Andean Manuscripts of Martin de Murúa and Guaman Poma de Ayala
Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago, and the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies and D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History.
Friday, April 19
Opening Remarks
Juan Ossio, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Tom Cummins, University of Chicago (now at Harvard University)
Mary Wyly, The Newberry Library
Session I: New looks at The Manuscripts of Martin de Murúa and Guaman Poma
Color and lnka Garments: An Investigation of the Colorants in the Martin de Murúa Historia General del Pirv [sic], in the J. Paul Getty Museum, MS. 83MP159
Elena Phipps, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Nancy Turner, The Getty Institute
Some Codicological Issues Concerning the Manuscripts of Guaman Poma and Martin de Murúa
Ivan Boserup, The Royal Danish Library
Of lnkas, Viceroys, and Watermarks: The Making of the Nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Rolena Adorno, Yale University
Session II: Interpretations of the Text and Images in Nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Towards a Geography of Guaman Poma
Monica Barnes, Independent Scholar
Las curiasas “criallas” de Guaman Poma de Ayala: Relaciones y reflexiones
Raquel Chang-Rodriquez, The Graduate Center, CUNY (not present; paper read by Tom Cummins)
Guaman Poma and the Classical Language of Architecture
Valerie Fraser, University of Essex
Saturday, April 20
Session III: The Languages of Nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Lateralidad: Propuesta de Valoración de los Dibujos de Guaman Poma
Carlos Gonzalez Vargas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Chile
Why it is not a just matter of “information”: The pragmatics of Guaman Poma and Martin de Murúa
Bruce Mannheim, University of Michigan (not present; paper read by Tom Cummins)
Murúa's 1590's Manuscript as a Mirror of the First Steps of Guaman Poma's Nueva corónica
José Bunsen Cardenas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and Yale University
The Royal Library's Digital Facsimile of the Nueva corónica and the Guaman Poma Website
Rolena Adorno, Yale University and Ivan Boserup, The Royal Danish Library
Session IV: Three Manuscripts in Comparison
La originalidad de Guaman Poma y Murúa en cuanto a sus datos sabre los Incas/Guaman Poma and Murúa’s Originality Concerning Evidence about the Incas
Tom Zuidema, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, emeritus
The Intervisual Connections and Transformations in the Manuscripts of Martin de Murúa and Guaman Poma de Ayala
Tom Cummins, University of Chicago (now at Harvard University)
Guaman Poma and Martin de Murúa's Attitudes toward Andean Oral Tradition, European Historiography, and Art
Juan Ossio, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Péru
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