Annual Meeting of the Society of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (SSPHS)

Athens, Georgia April 11-14, 2002


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THURSDAY, APRIL 11
5:00-7:00 pm    Welcome Reception, The Globe Pub, 199 North Lumpkin Street (corner of Clayton and Lumpkin Streets)
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FRIDAY, APRIL 12
Georgia Center
7:30-8:30 am    Conference Check-In
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FRIDAY, APRIL 12
Georgia Center
8:30-10:15 am
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(1) Tracking the Enemy and the Land in Twentieth-Century Spain

Chair: George Esenwein, University of Florida

Tim Rees, Exeter University: "Beating the 'Trotskyists': Comintern, the Communist Party and Dissident Communism in Spain, 1928-1937"

Manuel Hierro Gutiérrez, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: "Los anarquistas vascos durante la guerra civil: cuestión nacional y estrategia militar"

Rainer Lutz Bauer, California State University, Hayward: "Reforestation and Social Change in Rural Galicia, 1940-1975"

Comment: George Esenwein
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(2) Women at the Crossroads of State and Society in Early Modern Spain

Chair: Allyson Poska, Mary Washington College

Marta V. Vicente, University of Kansas: "Textual Uncertainties: The Written Legacy of Women Entrepreneurs in Eighteenth Century Modern Barcelona"

Benjamin Ehlers, University of Georgia: "Moriscas and the Old Christian Authorities of Valencia"

Eloina Villegas, University of Colorado, Boulder: "'Pain is grace to me': An interpretation of Sickness by a Deaf Nun"

Comment: Allyson Poska
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(3) New Perspectives on the Medieval and Early Modern Clergy

Chair: William D. Phillips, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Timothy J. Schmitz, Wofford College: "Monopoly Power: Hieronymite Control over the Printing and Distribution of Tridentine Prayer Books"

Edward Behrend-Martínez, University of Illinois, Chicago: "Domestic Violence and Its Clerical Mediation: Evidence from an Early Modern Church Court, 1650-1750"

James D'Emilio, University of South Florida: "Episcopal and notarial signs in twelfth-century Lugo"

Comment: William D. Phillips
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(4) Voyages, Discovery, and the Geography of Imagination in Spanish and Portuguese America

Chair: Thomas M. Cohen, Catholic University of America

Junia Ferreira Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: "The Indias of Knowledge, or the Imaginary Geography of Gold Discovery in Brazil"

Guiomar de Grammont, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto: "(Re)Discovering Colonial Art in Minas Gerais"

Neil Safier, Johns Hopkins University: "Correcting Quito: Creole Cartography and the Politics of Proof-Revision in a Peruvian Province"

Comment: Thomas Whigham, University of Georgia
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FRIDAY, APRIL 12
Georgia Center
10:30 am-12:15 pm
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(5) Connections, Interactions, Networks, and Routes: Grasping the Hispanic Monarchy in its Global Dimension

Chair: Tamar Herzog, University of Chicago

Ida Altman, University of New Orleans: "Mobility, Migration and the Making of the Spanish Empire"

Richmond F. Brown, University of South Alabama: "Baztaneses Abroad: Navarrese Networks of Trade and Migration in Late Colonial Spanish America"

J. B. Owens, Idaho State University: "Routes: Assembling Data About the Connective Tissue of a Global Monarchy"

Comment: James Boyden, Tulane University
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(6) Defining the New Woman: Gender Roles During and After Franco

Chair: Montserrat Miller, Marshall University

Aurora Morcillo, Florida International University: ""The Invisible Woman: Women's Radio Shows"

Pamela Radcliff, University of California, San Diego: "Gender and the Constitution in the Spanish Transition of the 1970s"

Inbal Ofer, Tel Aviv University: "Models for Feminine Activism: The Sección Femenina of the Spanish Falange between Marie Curie and María Paz Uniciti"

Comment: Montserrat Miller
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(7) Negotiating the Spanish Presence in North America from the Sixteenth through the Twentieth Centuries

Chair: Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia

Germán Rueda, Universidad de Cantabria: "La emigración de españoles en los estados de la costa Este norteamericana (1750-1950)"

Ana Varela-Lago, University of California, San Diego: "Sixteenth-century Explorers and Twentieth-century Immigrants: Negotiating the Meaning of the Spanish Presence in Florida in the 1920s"

Comment: Claudio Saunt
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(8) Discourses of Identity: Jews, Conversos, and Inquisitors in Iberia and Beyond

Chair: Benjamin Ehlers, University of Georgia

Jonathan Schorsch, Emory University: "Inventing Jewish Whiteness in the Western Sephardic Diaspora"

Teresa Camacho: "Blood and Vengeance: Crypto-Judaic Images in Los siete infantes de Lara"

Robin Vose, University of Notre Dame: "The Inquisition in its own words: Portuguese auto-da-fe sermons as historical sources"

Comment: Benjamin Ehlers
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12:30-1:45 pm     Lunch
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FRIDAY, APRIL 12
Georgia Center
2:00-3:45 pm
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(9) Interchanges in the Pan-Latin World: Defining Global and Local Cultures in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Chair: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Fordham University

Héctor D. Fernández L'Hoeste, Georgia State University: "Recalling the Province: Nation and Identity in Colombian Historiography"

Patricia Lopes Bastos: "Portugal and the music world: an acceptance of influences"

Comment: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
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(10) Iberian Jesuits and Jesuit Missions in the Wider World

Chair: Thomas M. Cohen, Catholic University of America

Andres Martinez, European University Institute of Florence: "The Jesuit Mission in Ethiopia during the merging of the two Iberian crowns (1580-1632)"

Gauvin Bailey, Clark University: "The Calera de Tango of Chile (1741-67): The Last Great Mission Art Studio of the Society of Jesus."

Comment: Thomas M. Cohen
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(11) Sources and Resources for Research in Iberian and Atlantic History

Chair: Joshua Goode, Occidental College

David Jack Norton, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: "Spanish Economic Policy in the 16th-18th Centuries: Making Sense of the Larruga Collection at the University of Minnesota"

Anthony Mullan, Library of Congress: "Presentation on The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps: A Selective Guide to Manuscript Maps to 1900 in the Collections of the Library of Congress"

Robin Vose, University of Notre Dame: "The Holy Office and the Golden Dome: New Resources for Study of the Inquisitions in the Midwest"

Comment: The Audience
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(12) Spanish Monarchs and Historical Memory in Early Modern Culture: Representations in Art, Theater, and Royal Collections

Chair: Mindy Nancarrow, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

María Caba, Duke University: "Isabel de Castilla: La Semiramis cristiana en La corte del demonio"

Guy Lazure, Johns Hopkins University: "The Escorial as Museum of Christendom: Books and relics in the collections of Philip II"

Amanda Wunder, Princeton University: "A painter, a cadaver, and a portrait: Imagining Fernando III in Baroque Seville"

Comment: Mindy Nancarrow

Comment: Elizabeth R. Wright, University of Georgia and and Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library
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FRIDAY, APRIL 12
Georgia Center
4:00-5:00 pm    Plenary Session. Speaker: Serge Gruzinski, Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains,"'Los mundos mezclados de la Monarquía católica', Spanish and Portuguese studies and the origins of the western globalization (1580-1640)." The address will be delivered in Spanish.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 13
Georgia Center
8:30-10:15 am
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(13) Strategies in Literary and Religious Expression in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Chair: David Ortiz, University of Arizona

Lisa Surwillo, University of California, Berkeley: "Dramatic Authors and the Politics of Property"

Carol Ann Scally, Washington State University: "Varieties of Religious Experience in Restoration Spain: Encounters with Protestantism"

Comment: David Ortiz
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(14) Religion and Gender in Early Modern Spain

Chair: Allyson Poska, Mary Washington College

Luis R. Corteguera, University of Kansas: "The Making of a Visionary Woman: The Life of Beatriz Ana Ruiz, 1666-1735"

Andrew Keitt, University of Alabama, Birmingham: "Representing St. Teresa: Text and Image in a Seventeenth-Century Emblem Book"

Jodi Bilinkoff, University of North Carolina, Greensboro: "Soul Mates: Spiritual Friendship and Life-Writing in Early Modern Catholic Culture"

Comment: Allyson Poska
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(15) Linguistic Collisions: Translation in the Colonial Atlantic World

Chair: María Mercedes Carrión, Emory University

Elizabeth R. Wright, University of Georgia and and Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library: "Spanish Drama in Mexican Translation: A Report on the Nahuatl Theater Project of Louise Burkhart, Barry Sell, and Elizabeth Wright"

Kittiya Lee, The Johns Hopkins University: "The Linguistic Collisions of Eighteenth-Century Maranhão and Grão-Pará, Brazil. The Dynamism of Língua Geral and Jesuit Pursuits in Capturing the Language"

Daniel Krohn Aulbach, New York University: "'The Words Became Flesh': The Catechism in Sixteenth Century New Spain"

Monica Domínguez Torres, University of Toronto: "The Glyph and the Cross: Communicating with the Spiritual Other in Sixteenth-Century New Spain"

Comment: María Mercedes Carrión
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(16) Creating and Critiquing Royal Power in Habsburg Spain

Chair: David C. Wood

Todd Price, University of Virginia: "An Anti-Machiavellian Message in Calderón de la Barca's auto sacramental La vida es sueño"

Michael Levin, University of Akron: "Identity Crisis: Philip II and the Precedence Controversy, 1557-1565"

Edward Tenace, Lyon College: "Diversion, Dynasticism, and Invasion: the Port of Brest in Spanish Strategy in the 1590s"

Michael Stevens, Georgia State University: "A Visual Articulation of the Spanish Imperial Project: Juan Bautista Mayno's Recuperación de Bahía"

Comment: David C. Wood
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SATURDAY, APRIL 13
Georgia Center
10:30 am-12:15 pm
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(17) La idea de España: Nation-building in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Chair: Carolyn Boyd, University of California, Irvine

John-Marshall Klein, University of Texas, Austin: "The 'Estrella Solitaria' Finds a Friend: The Spanish Flag in Cuba, 1898-1931"

Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Fordham University: "'La España ultramarina': Colonialism and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Spain"

Adrian Shubert, York University: "Before Spain was Different: Spain's First Tourism Policy, 1911-1936"

Comment: Carolyn Boyd
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(18) Perspectives on Medieval and Early Modern Frontier Societies

Chair: Timothy J. Schmitz, Wofford College

Frédérique Denis, University of Toronto: "Production, exchange and consumption in Reconquest Cuenca:  Interpreting the unique circumstance on the frontier"

Lorraine Lezama:"Law as Liberation in Early Colonial Spanish America"

Celia López-Chávez, University of New Mexico: "From the University of Salamanca to the Far Northern Spanish American Frontier: Adventures and Misfortunes of the Last Poet Conquistador"

Jaime G. Gómez and Elizabeth A. Long, "Gómez Pereyra, 1500-1568: Precursor of the Scientific Method"

Comment: Timothy J. Schmitz
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(19) Ecclesiastics and Their Descendants in the Age of Charles V

Chair: Sara T. Nalle, William Paterson University

Dan Crews, Central Missouri State University: "The Dirty Cardinal and the Humanist Saint: Juan de Valdés and the Trial of Benedetto Accolti"

Constance Mathers: "Descendants of the 15th Century Bishops in the Politics and Society of 16th Century Burgos"

Aurelio Espinoso, University of Arizona: "Archbishop of Tavera and His Program of Equity"

Comment: Sara T. Nalle
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(20) Race and Religion in the Early Modern Portuguese World

Chair: Francis A. Dutra, University of California, Santa Barbara

Francis A. Dutra, University of California, Santa Barbara: "Blacks, Mulattoes, Amerindians and Asians and the Portuguese Order of Santiago, 1500- 1750"

Thomas Orum: "Padres, Penitents, Pilgrims and Parishoners: Afro-Lusitanians and Religious Devotion in the Long Eighteenth Century"

Mark Emerson, University of California, Santa Barbara: "Race, Mysticism, and the Inquisition: The Case of an African Mystic Tried and Executed before the Tribunal in Lisbon, 1638-1642"

Comment: The Audience
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12:15-1:45 pm    Lunch
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SATURDAY, APRIL 13
Georgia Center
2:00-3:45 pm
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(21) From Habsburgs to Bourbons: The Atlantic World in an Era of Transition

Chair: J. B. Owens, Idaho State University

Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: "Bourbon and Water: The Marqués de Casteldosrius and the Transition from Habsburg Rule in Perú"

José Manuel de Bernardo Ares, Universidad de Córdoba: "La lucha por el imperio entre Ryswick (1697) y Utrecht (1713). Hacia una historia atlántica comparada."

Comment: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, State University of New York, Buffalo
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(22) Race, Gender, and Nomenclature: Defining Brazil from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

Chair: Francis A. Dutra, University of California, Santa Barbara

Deirdre R. Lynch, Emory University: "'Now that you are free, now that you are your own masters': Afro-Brazilians and the 'new' Brazilian man, 1915-1930"

Guilherme Nascimento, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: "Aspects of the Brazilian musical life at the colonial period: the role of music copists in Minas Gerais in the 18th and 19th centuries"

Stefan Halikowski Smith, Brown University: "The Naming of Brazil Revisited"

Comment: Francis A. Dutra
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(23) Imaging the Spanish Civil War in Spain and Abroad

Chair: Geoff Jensen, University of Southern Mississippi

Marla Stone, Occidental College: "Depicting the Enemy: Italian Fascist Representations of the Spanish Republic".

David Archibald, University of Glasgow: "Ghosts from the Spanish Civil War: Guillermo Del Toro's El Espinazo del Diablo"

Robert H. Whealey, Ohio University: "Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, as Portrayed in Popular Culture: Bubble Gum Cards"

Comment: Geoff Jensen
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(24) Convents in the Colonial Atlantic World: Defining Community, Defining Gender

Chair: Susan Socolow, Emory University

Stephanie Kirk, New York University: "Mobilizing Community: The Opposition to Vida Común in the Eighteenth-Century Mexican Convent"

Emily Story, Vanderbilt University: "Convent Architecture and Gender in Colonial Brazil"

Barry Robinson, Vanderbilt University: "Confining Rebellious Women: Reclusion and Recogimiento in the Mexican Wars for Independence, 1810-1821"

Comment: Susan Socolow
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SATURDAY, APRIL 13
Georgia Center
4:00-5:30 pm    Business Meeting
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SATURDAY, APRIL 13
The Georgia Museum of Art
7:00 pm    Banquet. Speaker: Richard Kagan, Johns Hopkins University: "Yankees in the Prado"
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SUNDAY, APRIL 14
Georgia Center
8:30-10:15 am
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(25) Portuguese Historico-Cultural Sources and Representations of "Other"

Chair: Dalila de Sousa Sheppard, Spelman College

Amélia Hutchinson, University of Georgia: "Punctuating the Narrative: the structural function of female characters in Fernão Lopes' chronicles"

Dalila de Sousa Sheppard, Spelman College: "The Vision of the African in the early chronicles of the Portuguese Expansion"

Katia Santos, University of Georgia: "History in Literature, Literature and History: Gil Vicente and Antonio Ribeiro Chiado's Plays as Sources on Blacks in sixteenth-century Portugal"

Commentator: Regina Felix, University of Georgia
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(26) Religious Change and Exchange: Festivals, Saints, and States in the Atlantic World

Chair: Reinaldo Román, University of Georgia

Patricia Lopes Don, San Jose State University: "Religion, Conquest, and Pagan Garlands: Making the Urban Festival in Mexico City, 1539"

Francisco Bustamante, State University of New York, Courtland: "Santo Tomás, apóstol perdido entre los indígenas americanos. Mito indígena, mito colonialista y mito criollo"

Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz, University of Texas, San Antonio: "Popular Religiosity and Cultural Exchange Through the Atlantic: Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States"

Comment: Reinaldo Román
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(27) Creating Patron Saints in Early Modern Spain

Chair: Jodi Bilinkoff, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Mindy Nancarrow, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa: "From Religous Cult Figure to Secular Logo: Córdoba's Custodio, St. Raphael, and the Triunfo of the Cathedral"

Daniel Berenberg, University of California, San Diego: "Creating a Patron: The Cathedral Chapter and the Cult of San Laureano in Seventeenth Century Seville"

A. Katie Harris, Georgia State University: "'Estima esta Ciudad . . . mucho más de lo que con palabras puede significar, estas reliquias, y libros': The Civic Cult of St. Cecilio and Granada's Municipal Council"

Comment: Jodi Bilinkoff