Events

Weds, 28 Nov 07 -- 12-2 pm

Alan Durston is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at York University. He studies the cultural history of the Andean region (primarily Peru) with special interests in Quechua and in language politics, and holds a
Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He has taught Latin American history at DePaul University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Erasmus Institute,
University of Notre Dame. His book Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650 was published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2007. His current research takes him into the 19th century, and examines how Quechua was imagined and manipulated by elites engaged in nation-building and other political and intellectual activities of the Independence and post-Independence periods.

Latin American Studies Luncheon Series
A light lunch will be provided to those who register online at http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=4474 by 9am on Monday, November 26, 200