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Dr. Nino Vallen

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Freie Universität Berlin

Institute for Latin American Studies

Research Associate and Lecturer

Latin American History

Address
Rüdesheimer Str. 54-56
Room Raum 229
14197 Berlin
Telephone
+49 30 838 51272
Email
nino.vallen@fu-berlin.de
Homepage
fu-berlin.academia.edu/NinoVallen

Nino Vallen is Research Associate and Lecturer in Latin American History at Freie Universität Berlin since 2014. 

Nino Vallen studied history at the Radboud University Nijmegen (2010) and completed his doctoral dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin (2016). He was a fellow of the International Research Training Group "Between Spaces" (Germany-Mexico) and the Slicher van Bath De Jong Fund (The Netherlands) and was rewarded a Career Development Award by the Berlin University Alliance in 2021. He teaches courses in Early Modern History, Latin American Colonial History, and Global History with a specific focus on material culture. 

His first book, entitled Being the Heart of the World: The Pacific and the Fashioning of the Self in New Spain, 1513–1641, tells the story of New Spain’s gradual integration into the Pacific Basin and the consequences of this development for the forging of new notions of self and other in the viceroyalty. It studies such little-explored identity transformations through the lens of distributional struggles. In analyzing cosmographies, maps, histories, reports, and art objects produced during specific disputes over wealth, offices, and honors, the work examines how discussions about the establishment and desirability of trans-Pacific connections interacted with more general debates over why some persons deserved certain benefits more than others. As part of these struggles, New Spain’s changing place at the crossroads of trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific routes became a subject of contention between actors moved by competing notions of a deserving self. Reassessing a powerful historiographical narrative on creole identities and worldviews, the book contributes to a broader understanding of the early modern self and the ways in which it was shaped by people’s engagements with a globalizing world.

In a new research project, entitled Worlds of Difference: Global Thinking and the Struggle over (In)equality in Latin America, he explores how struggles over the distribution of opportunities and burdens has shaped ideas about the world as they were articulated in the region. Taking a long-term view, this project seeks to render visible the ways in which such ideas have shaped life in Latin America and perceptions of the region's place in the world from the times of the Conquest to our own days. 

Summer Semester 2021 (E-Learning)

Global Thinking in Modern Latin America (MA)

Unabhängigkeit und neue Ordnungen in Lateinamerika (BA)


Winter Semester 2020/21 (E-Learning)

Konstituierung Lateinamerikas (Together with Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kummels) (MA)

Theorien, Begriffe und Methoden der Geschichtswissenschaft (MA)


Summer Semester 2020 (E-Learning)

Global Thinking in Modern Latin America (MA)

Materielle Kultur in Lateinamerika: Eine globalhistorische Einführung (BA)


Winter Semester 2019/20

Konstituierung Lateinamerikas (Together with Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kummels) (MA)

Theorien, Begriffe und Methoden der Geschichtswissenschaft (MA)


Summer Semester 2019

Things in Motion: Material Culture in Colonial Latin America (MA)

Thinking Globally in the Early Modern Spanish Empire (MA)

Materielle Kultur in Lateinamerika: Eine globalhistorische Einführung


Winter Semester 2018/19

Latin America and the Pacific World: A Multi-Scalar History (MA)

Einführung in die Geschichte Lateinamerikas: Quellen, Techniken, Interpretationen (BA)


Summer Semester 2018

Asien in Lateinamerika: Historische und aktuelle Perspektiven
(Together with Prof. Marianne Braig; MA)

Materielle Kultur in Lateinamerika: Eine globalhistorische Einführung (BA)


Summer Semester 2017
Materielle Kultur in Lateinamerika: Eine globalhistorische Einführung (BA)

 

Summer Semester 2016
A History of Rewards: Justice and Inequality in Colonial Spanish America (MA)

 

Winter Semester 2015/16
Science and the Celebration of German-Mexican Relationships (MA; E-Learning)

 

Summer Semester 2015
Empire and the Self: Classification and Identity in Colonial Latin America (MA)

 

Winter Semester 2014/15
Mapping a Global Empire: Knowledge and Governance in Colonial Latin America (MA)

Publications

Monograph

Edited Volumes

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

  • “Building for Justice: Mexico City’s Royal Palace and the Shaping of Imperial Relations,” in Jürgen Günther Nagel (Hg.): Imperiales Bauen (forthcoming).

  • “Noé en los Andes: el Diluvio Universal y la creación de mundos durante los siglos XVI y XVII,” Pensar el “Mundo”: Reflexión y representación globales del siglo XV al siglo XXI, edited by Stefan Rinke and Carlos Riojas (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2022), 41–67.

  • “Movimientos en disputa: los novohispanos ante la formación de las conexiones globales,” in América Latina en la historia global, edited by Carlos Riojas and Stefan Rinke (Mexico City: Siglo XXI editors, 2022), 43–70.

  • “Mexiko-Tenochtitlan nach der Eroberung,” in Der Codex Mendoza: Das Meisterwerk aztekisch-spanischer Buchkultur, edited by In Stefan Rinke, Federico Navarrete, and Nino Vallen (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2021), 30–50.

  • “Matierelle Eigenschaften,” in Der Codex Mendoza: Das Meisterwerk aztekisch-spanischer Buchkultur, edited by In Stefan Rinke, Federico Navarrete, and Nino Vallen (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2021), 62–76.

  • Together with Nikolaus Böttcher, “Introduction,” in Distributive Struggle and the Self in the Early Modern Iberian World, edited by Nikolaus Böttcher, Stefan Rinke, and Nino Vallen (Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Akademischer Verlag, 2019), 1–19.

  • “The Self and the World in Baltasar Dorantes de Carranza’s Sumaria relación,” in Distributive Struggle and the Self in the Early Modern Iberian World, edited by Nikolaus Böttcher, Stefan Rinke, and Nino Vallen (Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Akademischer Verlag, 2019), 141–68.

  • “The Conqueror and the Archive: Social Struggles and Practices of Memorialization in Viceregal New Spain,” in What’s Left Behind. The Lieux de Mémoire of Europe beyond Europe, edited by Marjet Derks, Martijn Eickhoff, Remco Ensel and Floris Meens (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2015), 26–32.

  • “Healing Power: Land Surveying Politics and the Archive of Mendoza’s America (1535-1552),” Las agencias de lo indígena en la larga era de globalización: Microperspectivas de su producción y represetación desde la época colonial temprana hasta el presente, edited by Romy Köhler und Anne Ebert. Estudios Indiana des Iberoamerikanischen Instituts PK 7 (Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2015), 77–98.

  • “Social Conflicts and Pacific Spaces: Connections between the East and West in the Making of Creole America,” in Latin America and Asia – Relations in the Context of Globalization from Colonial Times to the Present, edited by Carlos Alba, Marianne Braig, and Stefan Rinke (Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Akademischer Verlag, 2014), 27–73.

  • “Buscando el orden oriental. Agencias novohispanos y la invención discursiva de un mundo conectado,” in Intercambios, actors, enfoques. Pasaje de la historia latinoamericanaen una perspectiva global, edited by Aaron Grageda Bustamanta (Hermosillo: Universidad de Sonora, 2014), 101–16. 

Book Reviews

Miscellaneous

  • “Pazifik,” in: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online. J.B. Metzler Verlag (2020). 

  • “Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán: Brief an die Hispanoamerikaner (1791),” in Das Ende des alten Kolonialsystem. Dokumenten zur Geschichte der europäischen Expansion, Vol. 8. Edited by Christian Büschges and Stefan Rinke (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019), 353–60.

  • “Der Plan von Chilpancingo (1813),” in Das Ende des alten Kolonialsystem. Dokumenten zur Geschichte der europäischen Expansion, Vol. 8. Edited by Christian Büschges and Stefan Rinke, 382–383. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019.

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