Posted February 5, 2004

Devotional Landscapes: Mapping Shrines and Saints of New Spain

A Symposium and Workshop on GIS for History

February 27-28, 2004
University of California, Berkeley

Symposium: February 27
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall

Workshop: February 28
GIS Lab, 212 Wurster Hall

For registration information, contact: cari@uclink.berkeley.edu.

Religion as a nexus of political, economic, social and cultural life in the area once known as New Spain (now Mexico and the Hispanic Southwest) has been the subject of extensive scholarship. The landscape, already rich with the religious associations of the indigenous population, became freshly inscribed in ways ever more complex with the arrival of Catholicism. The interactions of the sacred and the spatial are being explored through the computerized mapping of Devotional Landscapes, a collaborative project between the Colegio de Mexico and UC Berkeley, that seeks to integrate historical geography and religious history in a region now severed by the US-Mexico border. The project seeks to enrich the historical interpretation of the cartography and the uses of digital mapping in Mexican and American colonial history.


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