Martha Few
Past and Upcoming Talks
Past and Upcoming Talks
University of Texas, San Antonio, Special Collections, John Peace Library
“Chocolate as Ingredient in Colonial Mexican Recipes,” for workshop“Cooking and Spanish Colonial Treasures from UTSA Special Collections,” John Peace Library, University of Texas San Antonio, November 9, 2023.
Penn State Chocolate Short Course, Department of Food Sciences
“Drug? Food? Aphrodisiac? Making Sense of Chocolate in the Early Modern Atlantic World,” invited talk for Penn State Chocolate Short Course, Department of Food Sciences, Penn State, June 19, 2023: (https://web.cvent.com/event/a6a0fea1-e462-4fb7-8910-11bcf5e40d78/summary
Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ), Johns Hopkins University, June 30, 2022
"Gender, Colonialism, and Disability in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters: Medicalized Trauma and the 1773 Guatemala Earthquake." Pre-circulated Workshop Paper.
New York University, Department of Spaish and Portuguese Languages and the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, Speaker Series Spanish Flus, March 28, 2022
“Epidemics, Maya Communities, and Public Health in the Covid-19 Era: Views from Colonial Guatemala.” Talk recorded and archived here:
https://wp.nyu.edu/spanishflus/epidemics-maya-communities-and-public-health-in-the-covid-19-era-views-from-colonial-guatemala/
Penn State University, Humanities Institute Fellows Talk, April 15, 2022
"Indigenous Cultural Frameworks, Local Colonialisms, and the Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire."
Furman University, Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History Speaker Series, February 24, 2022
"Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation for Fetal Baptism in the Spanish Empire"
Newberry Library Fellow's Seminar, December 3, 2021
"Indigenous Cultural Frameworks, Local Colonialisms, and the Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire." Pre-circulated Workshop Paper.
Omohundro Institute, "Contagious Connections" Roundtable Participant, December 3, 2021
Roundtable discussion with five other scholars discussing the role of inequities in sustenance, environment, and labor among groups of different race and station in shaping the stories historical actors and historians tell about the relationship between disease and contagion.
Newberry Library Colloquium, November 20, 2021
"Cochineal Insects Travel the World"
Keynote Address, First Annual Greer Lecture on Latin American History, Virginia Commonwelath University, November 20, 2019:
"Battling Locust Swarms in Colonial New Spain"
Keynote Address, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies Annual Meetings, Muhlenberg College, Allentown PA, March 9-10, 2018:
"Battling Locust Swarms in Colonial New Spain"
Department of History, Texas Christian University, March 23-24, 2018:
"Battling Locust Swarms in Colonial New Spain"
Department of History, Washington University, Saint Louis, April 4-5, 2018:
"Battling Locust Swarms in Colonial New Spain"
Completed Talks
Indigenous Knowledge and the Making of Colonial Latin America Conference, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI), the Seaver Institute, and the Getty Research Institute, December 8-9, 2017:
Locust Swarms, Insect Extermination Campaigns, and the Politics of Indigenous Knowledge in Colonial Mesoamerica."
Penn State University, Inaugural Latin American Studies Symposium/ 2017 TePaske Seminar, April 13-14, 2017:
"Who Let the Dogs Out?: Rabies Outbreaks, Dog-Killing Campaigns, and Material Cultures of Animal Death in Colonial Guatemala City."
American Historical Association annual meetings, Denver CO, January 2016:
"Embodiment, Sexuality, and "Hermaphrodites" in a Colonial Archive: Juana Aguilar on Trial, Audiencia of Guatemala 1800-1804."
University of Pennsylvania, Animals in the Archives Symposium Roundtable, October 28. 2016:
"The Materiality of the Archive: Cochineal Insects."
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, July 11, 2016:
"On Cesarean Operations and Fetal Baptism: An Eighteenth-Century Guatemalan Treatise in Historical Perspective," joint presentation
with Nina M. Scott, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren.
American Society for Environmental History annual meetings, Seattle WA, April 2016:
"Rabies Outbreaks and Dog- Killing Campaigns in Colonial Central America, 1680-1802."
Randolph Macon College, Women's Studies Lecture Series, Thursday March 3, 2016 at 7pm:
"Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Colonial Guatemala"
Penn State University, Department of History, Monday February 15, 2016 at 4pm:
"For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala."
University of California, Los Angeles, Atlantic History Seminar, Wednesday January 20, 2016 at 4pm:
"The Lives (and Deaths) of Caged Birds: Wild Animals and their Transatlantic Circulation from the Americas to Spain, 1760s-1820s."
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, Nov. 29-Dec. 6, 2015
•Plenary Speaker, Medical Humanities Postgraduate Training Day: "'This Marvelous Fluid': Smallpox, Cowpox and Human-Animal
Experiments in Late Colonial Guatemala."
•Epidemics Group, Geography, and Latin American Studies Joint Seminar: “Mesoamerican Medical Cultures and Colonial Public Health
Campaigns Against Typhus in Eighteenth- Century Central America."
•Lecture/Discussion in Level 3 Spanish class on chocolate, gender, and sorcery in colonial Latin America.
American Society for Ethnohistory Meetings, Las Vegas, Nov. 4-7, 2015
•Roundtable participant and co-organizer, "Medical Ethnohistory: New Research from Mesoamerica to the Arctic."
•"Mesoamerican and Colonial Medical Treatments for Epidemic Coughs in Maya Children in Highland Guatemala, 1790s-1820s."
•"The Lives (and Deaths) of Caged Birds: Wild Animals and their Transatlantic Circulation, 1760s-1820s."
Health Policy and Management Seminar, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Oct. 28, 2015
"Mesoamerican Medical Cultures and Colonial Public Health Campaigns Against Typhus in Eighteenth-Century Central America."
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