Martha Few, Department of History, Penn State University
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Martha Few
Upcoming Talks


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."