Mosquera visits Cuba and Chile

Daniel O. Mosquera, assistant professor of Spanish, participated in the Third International Congress on the Sociology of Religion in Havana, Cuba (July 2001) and read a paper "Religiosidad popular y subalternidad transhistórica, el caso de los Reyes Magos." in JALLA (Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana) in Santiago, Chile (August 2001). He will publish an essay-review in the coming November issue of Chasqui titled "Nationalisms and Indigenous Uprisings: Josefa Salmón's El espejo indígena: el discurso indigenista en Bolivia 1900-1956 and Nicholas Robins's El mesianismo y la rebelión indígena: `la rebelión de Oruro en 1781 and El mesianismo y la semiótica indígena en el Alto Perú: la gran revolución de 1780-1781" and a separate review of Xicoténcatl: An Anonymous Historical Novel about the Events Leading Up to the Conquest of the Aztec Empire.