25 November 2009 National Grid Room Warwick Arts Centre

ImagInIng La maLInche

InternatIonal SympoSIum

To coincide with Moctezuma Exhibition at the British Library, 2009

2.30–2.40 opening remarks: John King2.40–3.20 Session 1 camilla Townsend:

‘malintzin’s choices’

rubén gallo: ‘octavio paz, malinche and oedipus’

chair: John King

3.20–3.50 Discussion3.50–4.10 tea4.10–4.50 Session 2 valerie fraser: ‘from the lienzo de Tlaxcala to orozco:

la malinche in art’

Jimena gorraez belmar: ‘being la malinche’

chair: rebecca earle

4.50–5.20 Discussion5.20–5.30 Concluding remarks: rebecca earle

malintzin, La malinche, Doña marina… that aztec woman born in central mexico some time in the early sixteenth century who was hernán cortés’s translator, advisor and lover occupies a unique role

in modern mexican culture. castigated as la chingada, the violated woman who represents all women, lauded as a feminist prototype, excoriated as the

original malinchista, ‘fascinated and seduced’ by all things foreign (in the words of Octavio Paz), or honoured as the symbolic mother of La Raza, she has served as a canvas onto which the ideological struggles over post-revolutionary mexican (and chicano) identity have been projected. This event explores the varied legacy of La malinche in literature, art and popular culture, while at the same time seeking to capture the flickering traces of the historical figure described by the conquistador Bernal Díaz as ‘a most excellent woman’.

InternatIonal symposIum, naTIOnaL gRID SemInaR ROOm, WaRWIck aRTS cenTRe, UnIveRSITy Of WaRWIck, 25 nOvemBeR 2009

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1.00–2.00 mexican Celebrity Chef patricia Quintana discusses mexican Food past and present with the Historian Jeffrey pilcher

national grid room, Warwick arts centre

2.30–5.30 International Symposium: Imagining La Malinche

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3.00–5.00 master class with patricia Quintana eaT restaurant, Warwick arts centre

5.30 reception Warwick arts centre

mexIco at WarWIck: FIve centurIes oF Food, culture and HIstory WaRWIck aRTS cenTRe, UnIveRSITy Of WaRWIck, 25 nOvemBeR 2009

For information, and to register for the lecture and symposium, please contact Sue Dibben, Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick (Susan.Dibben@warwick.ac.uk) by Monday 23 November 2009.

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