Inspiration from Maria Aguilar's Dissertation Project

Might there be a way to combine perspectives from Renaissance humanism and postcolonial anthropology in analyzing the (apparent) movement of Mary of Agreda's Marian theology from early modern Spain to the twentieth-century Philippines? Although this idea remains vague in her prospectus, the notion that there is some kind of analogy to be be made between the positionalities from which humanist and postcolonial critics revisit "imitation" in their respective projects stirs something in me.

While this might be a blind alley, I could at least follow this as far as re-reading Hermans and Stecconi, who show that imitation and translation were closely linked in Renaissance humanism. Does the notion of syncretic "movement," which the panel interrogates, incorporate both these ideas in some form? (By the way, it would be interesting to look at H and S on the differentiation of these concepts. Off the bat, it seems to me that imitation implies material movement  (e.g. imitating a face) while translation carries a more wondrous sense of immaterial movement.)

Also, I am imagining a visual diagram for the purposes of clarifying the presentation. It is a grid composed of boxes, 3 for Spain, Mexico, and the Philippines on the horizontal axis (which represents space), and 5 for the fifteenth through twentieth centuries on the vertical axis (which represents time). Putative movement would be shown across space and time by dotted lines.