Spanish and Latin American Studies Lecture Series

[Mario Boido]

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to the next event of the Spanish and Latin American Studies Lecture Series.

“Gendered Place-Naming Practices of the Americas”
by Dr. Lauren Beck

On the presentation.
The rich fabric of place names knitting together the Americas is woven into a complex intercultural network of naming practices that span thousands of years as well as the globe. Indigenous, European, and settler communities each bestowed names upon places near and far whose meanings may be descriptive of the place, its resources, or one’s experiences there. They can commemorate an event or person, as the city and state of Washington shows us. This last place name also evidences the gendered nature of place naming in the Americas and especially after 1492 when European-settlers set out to know or bestow the place nomenclature for this entire region of the world through a predominately masculine lens. This presentation considers how women are represented in place names and the impacts of masculinist approaches to place nomenclature while contrasting Indigenous approaches to toponymy and the European reception of Indigenous place names.

On the speaker.
Dr. Lauren Beck (Professor of Hispanic Studies at Mount Allison University) is the Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter and she has published articles and books centred on the early-modern Atlantic world, visual culture, book illustration, and historical cartography. Dr. Beck is also a UW alumna and a graduate of our own Spanish program.

When: 10:00-11:30, February 28, 2019 (lunch to follow)

Where: DWE 3517

For more information please see attached poster.

Best wishes,
Mario



Mario Boido, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
President, Canadian Association of Hispanists
University of Waterloo
Waterloo ON
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: 519.888.4567 ext 35621

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