Colonial Contentions and Continuations in the U.S. Southwest and Beyond

Distinct but not unrelated projects, Spanish and Anglo colonizing regimes have created overlapping claims to belonging amongst indigenous, settler and arrivant groups cohabitating in what is presently the American Southwest. There, colonial histories and their legacies are remembered in ways that evince contentions and continuations, as well as resistance and erasure.

Engaging the region as a site of common ground and departure, Assistant Professor of English Vanessa Fonseca and literature doctoral candidate Travis Franks consider transnational investments in public memory and memorialization. Through individual conference-style presentations, Fonseca will discuss Spanish conquistador monuments in New Mexico and Texas and their ties to 16th and 17th century colonial ideologies, and Franks will discuss transnational settler memorialization in the state of Texas, United States, and the rural community of Texas, Queensland, Australia.

Location and Parking

This informal talk will take place in the Institute for Humanities Research's office in Ross-Blakley Hall at ASU's Tempe campus. The closest parking options are the visitor parking in Lot 44 and the Rural Road parking structure.