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DESCRIPTION:This paper uses the late sixteenth-century Boxer Codex to rethi
 nk what it means for a world to be “connected” outside modern framewor
 ks of globalization. Produced in Manila at the end of the sixteenth centur
 y\, the codex crystallizes a dense web of exchanges linking Spain\, Mexico
 \, the Philippines\, China\, and many communities in East and Southeast As
 ia. Focusing on the opening Spanish-Chamorro maritime encounter and the na
 rrative “Relación de las yslas de los Ladrones” [An Account of the La
 drones Islands] (modern-day Mariana Islands)\, I argue that the manuscript
  emerges from uneven\, multiethnic collaboration: a Spanish author\, a lik
 ely Chinese artist\, translators\, and indigenous and local informants fro
 m the Philippine archipelago.\n\nBy tracing how knowledge moves orally\, v
 isually\, and textually\, the paper shows how the Boxer Codex makes visibl
 e historical precedents of interconnection that are partial\, asymmetrical
 \, and often excluded: encounters at sea without landfall\, anonymous sour
 ces\, and representational gaps between text and image. Rather than antici
 pating a unified global system\, the codex records a patchwork of routes\,
  mediations\, and silences. Reading it as an archive of relationality\, I 
 propose that early modern colonial manuscripts can help us rethink dominan
 t historiographical narratives of “globalization” and recover other gr
 ammars of connectedness.
DTSTAMP:20260412T123940Z
LOCATION:Room 302 (Seats 48)
SUMMARY:At Sea and In-Between: The Boxer Codex as a Map of Early Modern Con
 nected Worlds - Brayan Serratos García
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/9HJHNG/
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