Presented By: Institute for the Humanities
Translating the Frontier: Just War and Free Circulation on the Roads of Colonial Mexico
A Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close event with Daniel Nemser
With the “Hear, Here” series, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute for the Humanities will discuss a part of their current project in a short talk followed by a Q & A session.
About this talk:
In 1618, colonial Mexican officials established a city called Córdoba along the highway between Mexico City and Veracruz to secure silver shipments from attacks by African maroons. Strikingly, they described the city as both a “frontier” and a “frontier fort.” This talk reads the new city as a translation of the technologies of war from the frontier to the center and traces a discursive shift from just war to economic circulation that accompanied it.
Daniel Nemser is a 2025-26 John Rich Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures.
About this talk:
In 1618, colonial Mexican officials established a city called Córdoba along the highway between Mexico City and Veracruz to secure silver shipments from attacks by African maroons. Strikingly, they described the city as both a “frontier” and a “frontier fort.” This talk reads the new city as a translation of the technologies of war from the frontier to the center and traces a discursive shift from just war to economic circulation that accompanied it.
Daniel Nemser is a 2025-26 John Rich Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures.
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