Featuring Dr. Rudy V. Busto, Associate Professor of Religion at UCSB
The Latinx scholarship on the Virgin of Guadalupe is almost entirely hagiographical and avoids the debate over whether the miracle of the Virgin Mary in 1531 Mexico is ?real? history. This lecture suggests that appreciating the science fictional aspects of the Virgin of Guadalupe's appearance brings new understanding of that event. Interpreting the original text sources through the materiality of European military science, and New World racial and metaphysical sciences, Guadalupe's miraculous appearance is the reimagining of possibilities: the ?science fictionality? of indigenous and criolloMexicans confronted by European science and technologies. The lecture compares the appearance of Guadalupe in 1531 with its reiteration in Cherrie Moraga?s 1993 play ?Heroes and Saints.?
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
Little Theatre SDSU
5500 Campanile Dr
San Diego, CA 92182
Thursday, December 7 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
For more information, please call: (619) 594-5091 or visit: www.newscenter.sdsu.edu
The Latinx scholarship on the Virgin of Guadalupe is almost entirely hagiographical and avoids the debate over whether the miracle of the Virgin Mary in 1531 Mexico is ?real? history. This lecture suggests that appreciating the science fictional aspects of the Virgin of Guadalupe's appearance brings new understanding of that event. Interpreting the original text sources through the materiality of European military science, and New World racial and metaphysical sciences, Guadalupe's miraculous appearance is the reimagining of possibilities: the ?science fictionality? of indigenous and criolloMexicans confronted by European science and technologies. The lecture compares the appearance of Guadalupe in 1531 with its reiteration in Cherrie Moraga?s 1993 play ?Heroes and Saints.?
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
Little Theatre SDSU
5500 Campanile Dr
San Diego, CA 92182
Thursday, December 7 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
For more information, please call: (619) 594-5091 or visit: www.newscenter.sdsu.edu
