The Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies presents the 2015-16 Andrew Norman Lecture, co-sponsored by the Religion Department and the Paul Frederick Sheffer Memorial Endowment for Roman Catholic Studies.

BY DAVID CARRASCO

AS MIGRANT MOTHER AND SACRED BUNDLE

SACRED ICON, SACRED HILL:

LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE

Wednesday, January 20, 2016 • 7 p.m.Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center Screening Room, 825 N. Cascade Ave. Free and open to the public.For more information, please call (719) 389-6334 or e-mail swshulbert@coloradocollege.edu.

David Carrasco, Mexican-American historian of religions, will give an

illustrated lecture on two types of Mexican sacrality — the ubiquitous

image of La Virgen de Guadalupe and the sacred place of Tepeyac

where her apparitions first occurred. Together, the sacred icon and

the sacred hill provide a religious orientation for Mexicans and many

Latinos, including migrants moving across borders from home-place to

strange-place. Using his ‘ensemble approach’ Carrasco interprets La

Morenita as a migrant mother and sacred bundle whose movements

created a ritual landscape and ethnic map for future pilgrims and

long-distance travelers.David Carrasco is the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin

America at the Harvard Divinity School; he has a joint appointment

with the Harvard Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts

and Sciences. He is the director of the Raphael J. and Fletcher Lee

Moses Mesoamerican Archive, which has helped organize new

knowledge about the religions and cultures of Mesoamerica. He is

also the author and editor of over 15 books, including the award-

winning “Quetzalcoatl and the Irony of Empire” and “Cave, City,

and Eagle’s Nest: An Interpretive Journey Through the Mapa de

Cuauhtinchan #2.”