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The Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies is holding its conference in Portland, OR, this April 5-7, 2018. Here are the early modern panels:
Thursday, April 5, 2:00
2.Forging Identity: Language, Texts, and Society Elowah Ballroom
DeLys Ostlund, Portland State University Prologues to Chivalric Novels and The Quixote
Xabier Granja, University of Alabama Converging Gender Identities: The Conflictive Early Modern Masculine Persona
Alba Fernández, Western Michigan University Desempolvando la escuela franquista
Chair/Commentator: Carmen Saen de Casas, Lehman College
3. Scientific Cultures I: Early Modern Andalucía Wahkeenah Falls
Margaret Boyle, Bowdoin College Recipes from Cádiz to England: The Granville Collection
John Slater, University of California, Davis Plague, Power and Parody in Early Modern Cádiz: The Case of Duarte Núñez de Acosta
Isabel Jaén Portillo, Portland State University Early Modern Spanish Science and the Complexity of the Mind: Human Development in the Examination of Men’s Wits
Chair/Commentator: Carmen Ripollés, Portland State University
Thursday April 5, 3:45
4. Cognitive Approaches to Early modern Spanish Literature Coos Bay
Julien Jacques Simon, Indiana University East Negative Emotions and the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (1502): Anatomy of a Literary Success at the Dawn of the Printing Press
Darryl Dedelow Jr., University of Kentucky Engañosas e Ingeniosas: Mujeres empoderadas en Don Quijote
Elizabeth Cruz Petersen, Florida Atlantic University The Art of Somatic Expression in the Works of Renaissance Rhetoricians: Lope de Vega, López Pinciano, and Gildon
Chair/Commentator: Isabel Jaén Portillo, Portland State University
6. Spain’s Colonial History through a Sociolinguistic Perspective Elowah Falls
Jesse Nichols, Portland State University, Preserving Spanish American Oral History: The Louisiana Isleño Dialect
Lyndsie Compton, Portland State University A Study of the Colonial History of Uruguay through a Linguistic Lens: Tracing History and Modernization through the Linguistic Landscape of Uruguay’s Northern Border Region
Eva Núñez, Portland State University, Spain’s Birth and Colonial History through the Lens of the Spanish Sibilant Merger
Chair/Commentator: Eva Núñez, Portland State University
Thursday, April 5, 5:30
Special Event Gallery Talk Portland Art Museum
Dawson Carr, PhD., Janet and Richard Geary Curator of European Art on the newly acquired Felipe Diriksen’s Infanta María de Austria (1630)
Friday, April 6, 8:30 am
7. Social Bonds in Spanish Religious Communities Coos Bay
A. Katie Harris, University of California, Davis ‘Laudemus viros gloriosos, & Patriarchas nostros in generationibus suis’: Writing the Medieval History of the Trinitarian Order in the Seventeenth Century
Jane Tar, University of Saint Thomas Early Modern Spanish Women Religious and Confraternities
Rowena Múzquiz, Broward College Feeding the Poor in Medieval Spain: The Sacred and the Secular Converge
Chair/Commentator: John Ott, Portland State University
Friday, April 6, 10:15
10. Reveal/Conceal: Early Modern Clothing and Identities Coos Bay
Rachael Ball, University of Alaska at Anchorage Recreating the Court: Costume and Representational Publicity on the Spanish Stage
Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University Fashion and Nation: Spanishness and Englishness Embodied in a Hooped Skirt
Thomas Abercrombie, New York University Dandyism and the Anxieties of Self-Conscious Modernity: Hábitos, Currutaquería, and Social Climbing in the 1790s
Chair: Jodi Campbell, Texas Christian University
Commentator: David Ringrose, University of California, San Diego
Friday, April 6, 2:00
13. Crossing Religious Boundaries in Early Modern Spain Coos Bay
Carmen Saen de Casas, Lehman College Las tres ccoronaciones del emperador Carlos V o la reescritura de la historia de un judeoconverso español
Sara Nalle, Emerita, William Paterson University Converge and Diverge: The cristãos novos of Portugal
Ashley Ellington, University of Oxford Spanish Correspondence and the Council of Trent
Chair/Commentator: Katrina Olds, University of San Francisco
14. Scientific Cultures II: Natural History Elowah Falls
Paula DeVos, San Diego State University Economic Botany and the Investigation of New World Medicines in the Reign of Philip II
Carmen Ripollés, Portland State University Natural History, Empire, and the Origins of Spanish Still Life
Nicolás Fernández Medina, The Pennsylvania State University Beyond Reason: Jovellanos and the Study of Living Nature
Chair/Commentator: Millie Gimmel, University of Tennessee
Friday, April 6, 3:45
16. Visions of Rural Spain Coos Bay
Foster Chamberlin, San Diego Miramar College A Riffian Stronghold: Empire and Honor in the Aftermath of the Castilblanco Incident
David Henderson, University of California San Diego The Science of Landscape: Eduardo Hernández-Pacheco, Badajoz and Empire
Elizabeth Penry, Fordham University Commoner-Created Towns in Early Modern Spain and the New World
Chair/Commentator: Charles Nicholas Saenz, Adams State University
17. Slavery and Unfreedom in the Empire and at Home Elowah Falls
Erin Rowe, Johns Hopkins University Spiritualizing Slavery in the Early Modern Iberian World
Kristina Soric, Purdue University “A Discrepancy in Word and Deed”: Abolition, National Honor, and Humanitarianism in O Escravo and Uma Familia Inglesa
Sherry Velasco, University of Southern California Morisco/Muslim Soundscapes in Early Modern Algiers
Chair/Commentator: Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon
18. Hard and Soft Power Under the Habsburgs Wahkeenah Falls
Denice Fett, Calvin College Protestant Coalitions and Spanish Intelligence Networks: Philip’s Diplomacy in the Wars of Religion
Michael J. Levin, University of Akron Charles V and Genoa: Choosing Diplomacy over Force
Edward Tenace, Lyon College Agenda of Imperialism: The Mental World of Don Juan del Aguila and Spanish Officers during the Wars of Religion, 1590-1598
Chair: James Boyden, Tulane University
Comment: Rachael Ball, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Saturday, April 7, 8:30 am
20. Religion and Material Culture before 1700 Elowah Falls
Mark C. Emerson, University of California, Berkeley Behind Locked Doors: An Archival-Archaeological Investigation into the Material World of a Seventeenth-Century Popular Mystic in Portugal and Brazil
Rachel Miller, California State University, Sacramento The Making of a New Portuguese Saint in André Reinoso’s St. Francis Xavier Cycle in the Church of São Roque, Lisbon
Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State University The Holy Chalice of Valencia as a Shifting Cultural Artifact
Chair/Commentator: Jesse Locker, Portland State University
21. Boundaries, Knowledge and Power in the Eighteenth Century Wahkeenah Falls
George A. Klaeren, Mansfield College Revising the Skeptical Renaissance: Medical Arts and Contested Knowledge in Spain, 1722-1734
Philip Fox, Wayne State College Revisiting the Myth of Declining Spain: An Alternative Definition of State Success in the Eighteenth-Century
Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota, Emerita Life and Death on Spanish Galleys: A Fresh Look
Eva Maria Mehl, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Expanding and Raveling Political and Ecclesiastical Boundaries: Spanish Augustinian Missionaries in Southern China in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
Chair/Commentator: David Garrett, Reed College
Saturday, April 7, 10:15
22. Secular and Sacred: Early Modern Spanish Painting Coos Bay
Jennifer Olson, Pierce College A Contextual Interpretation of the Paintings by Pacheco and Vázquez for the Grand Cloister of the Monastery of Our Lady of Mercy in Seville
Vanessa de Cruz Medina, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Women and Portraits in Early Modern Spain
Jesse Locker, Portland State University, Jusepe de Ribera, Juan Do, and the Assimilation of Spanish Artists in Early Modern Naples
Chair/Commentator: Dawson Carr, Portland Art Museum
25. Nationalism and Persecution: Early Modern to Modern Astoria
Eugenia Afinoguenova, Marquette University Looking at Picasso’s Guernica after the Catalan Revolution: The Transgressive ‘Left’ and the End of History
Paul Cahill, Pomona College “Eran los tiempos de Auschwitz”: Knowing and Not Knowing in Spanish Holocaust Poetry of the 1960s
Luis Corteguera, University of Kansas The Rebels of 1640: The Making of a Catalan Myth of Independence
Chair/Commentator: Jesus Cruz, University of Delaware
Saturday, April 7, 2:00
27. Scientific Cultures III: Atlantic and Colonial Cultures Coos Bay
Millie Gimmel, University of Tennessee Conflicting Agendas: Genre and the Early Natural Histories of Mexico
Patricia Martins Marcos, University of California, San Diego Framing the Soil, Harvesting New Natures: Science and Empire in the Portuguese Atlantic
Randall Meissen, University of Southern California Ecclesiastical Habitats: Fray Francisco Ximenez’s La Historia Natural del Reino de Guatemala
Chair/Commentator: John Slater, University of California, Davis
Saturday, April 7, 6:30 Banquet & 7:30 Keynote Address
“Voyagers” Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California Wahkeenha Falls-Elowah Falls
Again, I’m sorry that I neglected to get these up before the conference began, when it might have been helpful. But in the interest of trying to be comprehensive, and letting us all know what our colleagues are working on, here are the early modern panels that took place last month at the ASPHS Conference in Albuquerque, NM:
Friday, April 5:
SESSION 2
Grappling with Islam in the Early Modern Spanish Mediterranean
Comment: Andrew W. Devereux (Loyola Marymount University)
“Christian Myths of a Muslim Ruler: Saladin in El Conde Lucanor”
Maria Pluta (University of Notre Dame)
“‘I am a Muslim and That is What I Want to Be’: A First-Hand Account of the Expulsion of the Moriscos”
Libby Nutting (UT-Austin)
“Reversing Empires and Reversing Sorrow in a Portuguese Planctus”
José Miguel Martínez Torrejón (Queens College)
SESSION 4
Early Modern Portugal and Print Culture Across Borders
Organizer: Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall University)
Comment: Jack Norton (Normandale Community College)
“Pamphlets, Politics, and Religion: The Whitehall Conferences and the Quest for Jewish Readmission into England”
María Ana Valez (Yale University)
“Portuguese Pamphlets and the History of the Present, ca. 1700-1750”
Kirsten Schultz (Seton Hall University)
“Reporting the Lisbon Earthquake”
Mark Molesky (Seton Hall University)
SESSION 5
From Crisis to Crisis: The Reign of the Junta Central, 1808-1810
Chair: Scott Eastman (Creighton University)
Comment: Sean Perrone (Saint Anselm College)
“The Republican Origins of Spanish Liberalism”
Alberto Sahagun (Bucknell University)
“The Brief but Effective Rule of the Junta Central over Western Andalusia”
Charles Nicholas Saenz (UC-San Diego)
“The Junta Central and the Governing of the Indies: The Case of the Captaincy General of Venezuela”
Olga Gonzalez-Silen (Harvard University)
SESSION 6
Land and Power in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Comment:
Marta V. Vicente (University of Kansas)
“New Mexico Acequiasas Living Simulacra of Medieval Peninsular Irrigation Communities”
Thomas F. Glick (Boston University)
“Forests of the Ultramar: The Conservation and Exploitation of Timber Sources in Colonial Shipyards in the Americans and the Philippines, c. 1500-c.1750″
John T. Wing (College of Staten Island-CUNY)
“Eucalypts in Northern Ecuador: An Environmental History”
Kenneth Kincaid (Purdue University North Central)
PLENARY SESSION I
Panel in Honor of William D. and Carla R. Phillips
Carla and Wim’s students and colleagues gather to recognize and honor their careers and contributions to the Spanish historical profession.
Chair: Jodi Campbell, Texas Christian University
Comment:
Luis Morera, Baylor University
Allyson Poska, University of Mary Washington
Anne Marie Wolf, University of Maine-Farmington
Dan Crews, University of Central Missouri
Jack Norton, Normandale Community College
SESSION 8
Troubled Identities: Jews and Conversos in the Old and New Worlds
Organizer: Roger L. Martinez (UC-Colorado Springs)
Comment: Amy Aronson-Friedman (Valdosta State University)
“Crisis and Opportunity: The Case of Blanca of Girona in Late Fourteenth Century Catalonia”
Alexandra Guerson (University of Toronto) and
Dana Wessell Lightfoot (University of Northern British Columbia)
“Frameworks: Spanish History, Identity, and Converso Historiography”
Roger L. Martinez (UC-Colorado Springs)
SESSION 11
Daily Life in Early Modern Iberia
Chair: Dan Crews (University of Central Missouri)
Comment: Allyson M. Poska (University of Mary Washington)
“Daily Life and Living Conditions in the Inquisitorial Prison at Valladolid, 1572-1577”
J. Michael Fulton (Whitworth University)
“‘The Lords of the Seven Parishes’: Silk Workers, Popular Politics, and Revolt in Early Modern Seville”
Igor Knezevic (University of Pennsylvania)
“Race, Gender, and Justice in Sixteenth-Century Portugal”
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira (University of Winnipeg)
“The Portuguese Inquisition, the Intermediate Groups and the Control over the Peripheries (17-18th centuries)”
Fernanda Olival (Universidade de Évora)
Saturday, April 6
SESSION 13
Identity and Empire: Atlantic and Pacific Perspectives
Chair: Enrique Sanabria (University of New Mexico)
“The Many Faces and the Far Reaches of Creolism in Habsburg Peru”
Guillermo García Montufar (Johns Hopkins University)
“The Spanish Empire And The Pacific World: Mexican ‘Vagrants, Idlers, And Troublemakers’ in the Philippines, 1765-1821”
Eva Mehl (UNC-Wilmington)
“Exile, Captivity, and Freedom: The Blanco Whites and Spain’s War of Independence, 1808-1814”
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (Tufts University)
“Mexican Nationalism as Seen by a Spanish Lieutenant in his Personal Diary, 1821-1822”
Claudia Guarisco (El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C.)
SESSION 14
Authorial Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Spanish Historiography
Organizer: Katherine van Liere (Calvin College)
Comment: Allyson M. Poska (University of Mary Washington)
“Habsburg Spain’s History Teacher: Ambrosio de Morales’s Coronica general and Antiguedades as Pedagogical Tools”
Katherine van Liere (Calvin College)
“Self-Fashioning, Novelistic Discourse and the Truth of History: Informaciones de servicio and Early Spanish Colonialism in the Southern United States”
Alexander Samson (University College-London)
“The Forging of an Intellectual Career: Inca Garcliaso de la Vega’s Self-Fashioning”
Fernando Rodriguez-Mansilla (Hobart & William Smith Colleges)
SESSION 16
Golden Anniversaries: J. H. Elliott’s Imperial Spain and Revolt of the Catalans after Fifty Years
Organized by: Xavier Gil (Universitat de Barcelona) and
Geoffrey Parker (Ohio State University)
“The writing of Spanish history before and after 1963 (Spanish, including Catalan, and non-Spanish alike) and re-integrating Spain within European/world History”
Xavier Gil (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and
Antonio Zaldívar (UCLA)
“Restoring the Role of Human Agency”
James Boyden (Tulane University) and
Ruth MacKay (Stanford University)
“Promoting Comparative, Atlantic, and Global history”
Geoffrey Parker (Ohio State University) and
Molly Warsh (University of Pittsburgh)
Response: Sir John H. Elliott (Oxford University)
PLENARY SESSION II
In Honor of Richard L. Kagan: Rethinking “Prescott’s Paradigm” – A New Paradigm for a New Millennium?
Chair: Erin Kathleen Rowe (Johns Hopkins University)
Response: Richard L. Kagan and Audience
Luis Corteguera, University of Kansas
Xavier Gil, Universitat de Barcelona
Kimberly Lynn, Western Washington University
Marta M. Vicente, University of Kansas
SESSION 17
Across the Ages: Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Religious Identity and Conversion
Organizer: Roger Martinez
Comment: Pilar Ryan (US Military Academy)
“Converso Identities in Late Medieval Spain: Intermediacy and Indeterminacy”
Elizabeth Koza (SUNY-New Paltz)
“Against the Current: Leocritia of Cordova’s Conversion to Christianity”
Micah K. Martin (UC-Irvine)
SESSION 20
Peace, War, and Royal Authority in the Hispanic World
Chair and Comment: Michelle Armstrong-Partida (UT-El Paso)
“Sovereignty and the Royal Peace in the Crown of Aragon, 1213-1276”
Jennifer Speed (University of Dayton)
“Just War and the Christian Prince: Juan López de Palacios Rubios and Ideologies of Empire in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish World”
Andrew W. Devereux (Loyola Marymount University)
“‘Having Served in the Troops’: The Appointment of Military Officers as Provincial Governors in Eighteenth-Century Spanish America”
Francisco Eissa-Barroso (El Colegio de Michoacán)
BANQUET
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ADRIAN SHUBERT
Sunday, April 7
SESSION 23
Sacred Art, Family, and Identity in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Chair and Comment: Luis Corteguera (University of Kansas)
“Music, Art, Theater, Syncretism, and Angels in New Spain”
Cesar Favila (University of Chicago)
“The Jesuit Reductions of Paraguay”
Maria Giulia Genghini (University of Notre Dame)
“Collecting the New World: Latin American Art in Habsburg Inventories”
Kate Holohan (NYU)
The new issue is out, and here are the relevant articles & reviews:
Aurelia Martín Casares and Luis Méndez Rodríguez, “Negroafricanos, marginación y violencia en el mundo hispano en la Edad Moderna.”
Michele Clouse reviews Erin Kathleen Rowe, Saint and Nation: Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain.
Kris Lane reviews Fabio López Lázaro, The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez: The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th-Century Pirates.
Eva Mehl reviews Regina Grafe, Distant Tyranny. Markets, Power, and Backwardness in Spain, 1650-1800.
Jack Norton reviews Marie A. Kelleher, The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon.
Allyson Poska reviews François Soyer, Ambiguous Gender in Early Modern Spain and Portugal: Inquisitors, Doctors and the Transgression of Gender Norms.
Sara Granda reviews Richard L. Kagan, Clio & the Crown. The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain.
Teofilo Ruiz reviews John H. Elliott, History in the Making.
Scott K. Taylor reviews María M. Carrión, Subject Stages: Marriage, Theatre, and the Law in Early Modern Spain.
James B. Tueller reviews Carlos Gómez-Centurión Jiménez, Alhajas Para Soberanos: Los animales reales en el siglo XVIII: De las leoneras a las mascotas de cámara.
Amanda Wunder reviews Teofilo F. Ruiz, A King Travels: Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain.
David Ortiz reviews Scott Eastman, Preaching Spanish Nationalism Across the Hispanic Atlantic, 1759-1823.
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