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* CooleyToledano AnimalsNewSpainCooleyToledano AnimalsNewSpain

Time: 11:00

triple Conferencia Cooley / Toledano / Yildirim Lugar: Aula Gran, IMF-CSIC, Carrer Egicíaques 15, 08001 Barcelona Fecha: 11 de diciembre, a las 11 horas Mackenzie Cooley (Stanford University): The Animals of New Spain from Hernández to Humboldt “The most interesting productions [of the animal kingdom] for the prosperity of the inhabitants have been introduced from the ancient continent,” wrote Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) of Mexico in his Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne (1811). When visiting New Spain in 1803, during the closing years of the colonial era, Humboldt trekked across the Spanish Viceroyalty’s heartlands. In so doing, he followed the imperial routes along which the sixteenth century natural observers whose works he quoted had also journeyed. In these travels, he studied the New Spanish animal kingdom. More than two centuries earlier, King Philip II’s government had initiated the first census of the Americas by asking officials and local informants about “the animals and the birds, wild and domestic, from the land and those that were brought from Spain, and how they breed and multiply on the land.” The responses became the Relaciones Geográficas; Humboldt was engaged in answering the same question. Hogs, hens, horses, and sheep caught his interest, raising the question of Amerindian animal domestication and what might have been. Ultimately, Humboldt’s attention rested on economically useful animals both pre-Columbian, including cochineal and pearl oysters, and Spanish. This paper uses traditional and digital historical techniques to analyze changes in American nature between the Spanish Conquest and Humboldt’s writing. It places Alexander von Humboldt’s writings on the animals of New Spain in conversation with essential sixteenth century sources, just as Humboldt himself had done. Anna Toledano: Indefatigable Azara: A Spanish Naturalist Mapping South America Félix de Azara was born on May 18, 1742 in the little municipality of Barbuñales in Huesca, Aragon, Spain. A civil engineer in the Spanish army by training, he embarked in 1781 on the state-sponsored mission to survey the new territories of Paraguay. The goal of Azara’s journey was to establish a fixed international boundary with Portugal of more than one thousand miles extending down from Bolivia all the way toward the coast near the Río de la Plata. Unlucky Azara soon realized that the army had sent him on a fool’s errand. The Portuguese had no intention of holding up their end of the agreement. He made some efforts to complete his task on his own, but even the act of surveying proved extremely difficult. When it became obvious that the Portuguese would never arrive, Azara decided to study the animals and peoples in Paraguay to pass the time. He kept meticulous records on his daily travels as well as the flora, fauna, and ecology of the region. Azara collected as many specimens as he could find, endeavoring to amass a complete set of local bird species. Although not its intention, the Spanish government created this Azara, the accidental naturalist, through its efforts toward geographic expansion. This paper will examine Azara’s dual roles as a soldier and a man of science within the context of the natural and national landscape which he sought to observe, understand, and decode.

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* Objectes Perduts I.Objectes Perduts I.

Time: 19:00

12 de desembre 2017 a les 19h: Chloe Sharpe.

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* II Workshop GABMUSANAII Workshop GABMUSANA

Time: 0:00

II Workshop GABMUSANA. 13 de desembre de 2017. IMF-CSIC. (Més detalls en breu).

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* Work in Progress at CEHIC-UABWork in Progress at CEHIC-UAB

Time: 12:30

Mauro Vallejo (Profesor, Universidad de Buenos Aires): Hipnotismos trashumantes, entre España y Argentina (1880-1900). Médicos, charlatanes, ilusionistas y ocultistas

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