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Colonial Latin American Review 31/1 (2022):
Kelly Donahue-Wallace, “Imprinting exemplarity: a culture of print in Mexican nuns’ portraits.”
Heather J. Allen, “Scriban voices in Chimalpahin’s transcription of La conquista de Mexico.“
Álvaro Baraibar, “Las funciones del lector en la narrativa de Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo.”
Carol A. Myscofski, “The vanishing Inquisition: an inquisitor’s visit and its repercussions in seventeenth-century Brazil.”
Fabrício Prado, “No such thing as neutral trade: U.S. shippers in the Rio de la Plata at the turn of the nineteenth century.”
Mark Pierre Dries, “Native mercury: discovery narratives as entangled histories of technology.”
Vitus Huber, “The spirals of spoils: booty, distributive justice, and empire formation in the Conquista of New Spain.”
We here at Early Modern Spanish History Notes read through the program so you don’t have to. Here are the panels at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in Milwaukee, Oct 26-29, 2017, that are of interest to us (sorry, I can’t track all down the individual papers that might be interesting to us):
Please note especially the events honoring Alison Weber on Friday and Sunday!
Thursday, Oct 26, 1:30-3:00
Room: Lakeshore C 3.
From Synods to Slavery: Catholic Theology in Colonial Latin America
Sponsor: Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Organizer: Rady Roldán-Figueroa
“Obligación de restituir la libertad e indemnizar”: Slavery as Crime in the Work of Francisco José de Jaca, OFM cap., John Parker, Boston University
The “Lost” Diocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico, the Windward Islands, and the Province of Cumaná, Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Boston University.
Room: Milwaukee A 7.
Reading the Sources: In Search of Marginalized Peoples
Organizer: Janis M. Gibbs
Chair: Grace E. Coolidge
Slave Labor, Wage Labor Revisited through Archival Documents at the NYPL: A Methodology for Legal Records on Slaves, Maher Memarzadeh, Independent Scholar
Refugees, Opportunists, or Agents of Empire: Conceptions of Conversos in Early Modern Spain and France, Gayle Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton
Thursday, Oct 26, 3:30-5:00
Room: Gilpatrick C.
Strategies for Networking in Early Modern Europe
Organizer: Janis M. Gibbs
Chair: David Papendorf
From Rome to Gandía: Family Networks and Family Loyalty in the Early Modern Mediterranean World, Alexander Mizumoto-Gitter, University of Kansas
Responsible Fathers or Deadbeat Dads?: Noblemen and Their Illegitimate Children in Early Modern Spain, Grace Coolidge, Grand Valley State University
Melanchthon Weaves a Web, Rebecca Peterson, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Room: Executive A 23.
Oral and Writing Societies: Documenting, Record-keeping, and Information-gathering in Early Modern Spain
Organizer: Elvira Vilches
Chair: Emilie L. Bergmann
Male Virgins: Purity and Danger in Early Modern Military Life Writing, Faith Harden, University of Arizona
The Role of Language in Accusations of Witchcraft in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain, Eva Mendieta, Indiana University Northwest
Eating One’s Words: The Ends of Textual Consumption in the Spanish Empire, Heather Allen, University of Mississippi.
Room: Executive D 26.
Family, Gender, and Reformation in 16th-Century Europe
Organizer: Rady Roldán-Figueroa
Chair: Jeffrey A. Fisher
An Indecent Proposal: Clandestine Marriage, Deviance, and Family in Reformation Germany, Michael Hammett, Columbia University
Reformist Masculinity and Lady Church in Early Modern England, Lora Walsh, University of Arkansas
Catalina de Erauso: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Dressing Catholic, Jenni Shelton, John Carroll University
Fri, Oct 27, 8:30-10:00 am
Room: Crystal 37.
Women’s Leadership and Las Casas’s Legacy in the Low Countries of Charles V
Organizer: Anne J. Cruz
Chair: Heather J. Allen; Commentator: Anne J. Cruz
The Rule of Gender in the Low Countries: Charles V’s Reliance on his Female Relatives, Anne Cruz, University of Miami
Charles V’s Shadow Cast Abroad in Word and Image I: The First French Translation of Las Casas’ Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias, Colt Segrest, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Charles V’s Shadow Cast Abroad in Word and Image II: The First European Visual Renderings of Las Casas’ Account of the Spanish Conquests, Rolena Adorno, Yale University
Room: Executive C 42.
Marian Devotion in the New World: Reflections about Frontiers, Poetic Festivals, and the Maternal
Organizer: Elvira Vilches
Chair: Stacey Schlau
Hybrid Maternity: Transatlantic Women’s Health in the 16th-Century Iberian World, Millie Gimmel, University of Tennessee
Mary in Spain and Across the Atlantic: The Transmigration of Devotion, Laura Ammon, Cheryl Claassen, Appalachian State University
Mary’s Mexican Oracle: The Immaculate Conception in the Literature of New Spain, Teresa Clifton, Brown University
Friday, Oct. 27, 10:30-Noon
Room: Executive C 59.
The Production of Space: Architecture, Texts, Dramatic Design, and Classical Allegory
Organizer: Elvira Vilches
Chair: Luis R. Corteguera
The Murals at Casa del Deán: A Humanist Renaissance Studiolo in Sixteenth Century Mexico, Juan Luis Burke, State University of New York
The Architectonics of Reading: Architecture, Interpretation, and Interiority in Alfonso de Valdés’ Diálogo de las cosas acaecidas en Roma, Katherine Brown, Yale University
Room: Regency A 61.
Holiness and Popular Religion, in Honor of Susan C. Karant-Nunn and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Sponsor: Society for Reformation Research
Organizer: Ute Lotz-Heumann
Chair: Raymond A. Mentzer
From Holy Theft to Sacred History: Two Spanish Cities Remember John of the Cross (1542-91), Jodi Bilinkoff, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Distinguishing between Saints and Spirits. Or, How to Tell the Difference between the Virgin Mary and Mary the Ghost?, Kathryn Edwards, University of South Carolina
How to Make a Holy Well: Popular Religious Practices and Official Responses in Early Modern Germany, Ute Lotz-Heumann, University of Arizona
Room: Pere Marquette 64.
The Medieval Heritage, Humanism, and the Understanding of History
Organizer: Janis M. Gibbs
Chair: Richard C. Cole
Vincenzio Borghini and Medieval Studies in the Sixteenth Century, Ann Moyer, University of Pennsylvania
22 Romancing Clio: François Hotman’s Franco-Gallia and the Reinvention of the Late Valois Monarchy, Jason Sager, Wilfrid Laurier University
Humanist History, Truth, and Polemics: The Artes historicae of Philip II’s Official Historians, Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske, Columbia University
Friday, Oct. 27, 1:30-3:00pm
Room: Executive C 76.
Examining Emotions and the Intellect: Music, Myth, and Numbers in the Comedia
Organizer: Elvira Vilches
Chair: Sherry Velasco
Re-Defining Ganymede: Ana Caro’s Interpretation of an Ancient Myth, Felipe Rojas, University of Chicago
Divine Harmonies: Musical Performance in Lucas Fernandez’s El auto de la pasión, Ivy Walters, North Central College
Figures of Arithmetic: Numeracy and Calculation in Tirso’s Celos con celos se curan, Elvira Vilches, Duke University
Friday, Oct. 27, 3:30-5:00pm
Room: Lakeshore C 84.
ROUNDTABLE: A Tribute to Alison Weber on her Retirement
Organizer: Allyson M. Poska
Chair: Allyson M. Poska
Participants: Anne J. Cruz, Jodi E. Bilinkoff, Jennifer E. Barlow, Elizabeth Lehfeldt
Room: Milwaukee B 90.
Art and Politics in Sacred Spaces and Texts
Organizer: James Clifton
Chair: Tracy C. Cosgriff Imaging the Reconquest in Old Castile: The Choir Stalls of Toledo Cathedral, Jessica Weiss, Metropolitan State University, Denver
“Get my Good Side”: Triumphant Images of Defeat in Early Modern Armenia, Erin Pinon, Princeton University
Sacred Space at the Spanish Court: Margarita de la Cruz and Images of the Child Christ in the Descalzas Reales, Tanya Tiffany, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Room: Executive B 92.
Early Modern Women, Religion, Theology, and Spirituality I: Women’s Spirituality and Religious Patronage
Sponsor: Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Organizer: Anne Larsen 30
Chair: Julie D. Campbell, Commentator: Julie D. Campbell
Liberation and Exterior Legibility in Teresa of Ávila’s Las moradas (1588), Molly Elizabeth Borowitz, University of California, Berkeley
“If the devil did this to deceive me”: Teresa of Ávila and the Problem of Deception, Ana Maria Carvajal, Purdue University
“Under the Shield of Your Sacred Virtues”: Katherine Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon as Puritan Patroness, Catherine Medici, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Saturday Oct 28, 10:30-Noon
Room: Executive B 126.
Physicality, Senses, and the Body in Early Modern Europe
Organizer: Scott K. Taylor
Chair: Joel F. Harrington Commentator: Joel F. Harrington
Embodied Exemplars: Whole-Body Catacomb Saints as Models for Christian Behavior in Baroque Bavaria, Noria Litaker, University of Pennsylvania
In Wilderness and Darkness: Sacred Space and Embodiment in Anabaptist Piety, Erin Lambert, University of Virginia
Coffee and the Body in Western Europe, Scott K Taylor, University of Kentucky
Saturday Oct 28 1:30-3:00pm
Room: Regency A 147.
Performing Loyalty in the Early Modern World I: The Spanish World
Organizer: Jennifer Mara DeSilva
Chair: Jennifer Mara DeSilva
Ambassadorial Agency and Performing Loyalty to the Spanish Prince in Rome, Rachael Ball, University of Alaska Anchorage
Communities of Color Vie to Perform Their Loyalty to the Crown in Rodrigo de Carvajal y Robles’ Fiestas de Lima (1632), Mark Evan Davis, Christopher Newport University
Constructing Portuguese Loyalties in Colonial Spanish America, 1560-1620, Brian Hamm, University of Central Florida
Saturday Oct 28 3:30-5:00
Room: Executive B 161.
The Classical Age and the Colonial Worlds: Ancient Texts, Classical Myths, and New Peoples
Organizer: Elvira Vilches
Chair: Rolena Adorno
Peter Martyr of Anghiera and the Advent of a New World: Continuity and Discontinuity with the Past, Elena Daniele, Tulane University
The Design of Part Three of La Araucana: Ercilla’s Retelling of the Dido Story, Bryce Maxey, Yale University
Peaceful People or Plague? Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Late Regret for his Early Support of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Ruben Sánchez-Godoy, Southern Methodist University
Sunday Oct 29, 8:30-10:00am
Room: Lakeshore C 171.
ROUNDTABLE: Feminism in the New Millennium
Sponsor: Sixteenth Century Journal
Organizer: Whitney Leeson; Chair: Kathryn Brammall
Participants: Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Allyson M. Poska, Karen L. Nelson, and Bronagh McShane
Room: Executive A 176.
The Material World of Teresa of Ávila: Gender, the Holy Female Body, and Encounters with Royalty. Studies in Honor of Alison Weber
Organizer: Jennifer E. Barlow
Chair: Jodi E. Bilinkoff
Gendered Gestures in Lope de Vega’s Santa Teresa de Jesús, Sherry Velasco, University of Southern California
Teresa of Avila, Friendship, and the Holy Female Body, Jennifer Barlow, Longwood University
Royal Encounters with Teresa of Ávila, Luis Corteguera, University of Kansas
Sunday Oct 29, 10:30-Noon
Room: Executive A 188. Grace, Piety, and Prayer: Studies in Honor of Alison Weber
Organizer: Jennifer E. Barlow
Chair: Faith Harden; Commentator: Anne Jacobson Schutte
Toward a Cervantine Conception of Grace, Timothy McCallister, Auburn University
Pilgrimage, Piety, and Travel: Alternative Paths to the Convent, Sarah Owens, College of Charleston
Forgotten Best-Sellers of the Reformation: Luis de Granada in Translation, Daniel Wasserman-Soler and Daniel Cheely, University of Pennsylvania
Sixteenth Century Journal 47/4 (2016):
R. Po-Chia Hsia reviews Carlos M.N. Eire, Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 (Yale, 2016).
Linda K. Williams reviews Nancy E. van Deusen, Global Indios: The Indigenous Struggle for Justice in Sixteenth-Century Spain (Duke, 2015).
Alison Weber reviews Helen H. Reed and Trevor J. Dawson, eds, La princesa de Éboli: Cautiva del rey: Vida de Ana de Mendoza y de la Cerda (1540-1592) (Marcial Pons Historia, 2015).
Miles Pattenden reviews Annemarie Jordan-Gschwend and K.J.P. Lowe, The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon (London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2015).
Ronald H. Fritze reviews Alfredo López Austin, The Myth of Quetzalcoatl: Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World (University Press of Colorado, 2015).
John Considine reviews Byron Ellsworth Hamann, The Translations of Nebrija: Language, Culture, and Circulation in the Earl Modern World (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015).
Karen B. Graubart reviews Allyson M. Poska, Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire (University of New Mexico Press, 2016).
Heather J. Allen reviews Barbara E. Mundy, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan: The Life of Mexico City (University of Texas Press, 2015).
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