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 February 21, 2011
| Time: | Noon-1:30 p.m. |
| Description: | "This Mexican Marvel": Manuel Tolsá's Equestrian Statue of Charles IV, Neoclassicism, & the Politics of Good Taste in Late Colonial Mexico," will be presented by Dr. Susan Deans-Smith, associate professor of history, UT Austin. Deans-Smith's research and teaching interests include the history of colonial Latin America and the Spanish Empire, with particular emphasis on Mexico and the Andean region, society and culture in 17th- and 18th-century Mexico and the Andes, and comparative colonial history.
Deans-Smith received a Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize, Honorable Mention for her book "Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers: The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico" (1992). She is currently working on a project on visual culture in colonial Latin America. |
| Location: | Garrison Hall (GAR) 4.100 |
| URL: | More about this event... |
| Contact: | Jose A Barragan |
| Sponsor: | Institute for Historical Studies; Dept. of History |
| Admission: | Free, RSVP required; see Web site for details |
| Categories: | Everyone, Lecture/talk, Politics & International |
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