Annual Meeting of the Society for 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, Registration Desk
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
Seminar Room T/U

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
Seminar Room V/W

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
Seminar Room Y/Z

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
Seminar Room E/F

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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Coffee Break: Second Floor Concourse

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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
Seminar Room E/F

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
Seminar Room T/U

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) Discourses of Identity: Jews, Conversos, and Inquisitors in Iberia and Beyond
Seminar Room V/W

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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(8) Interchanges in the Pan-Latin World: Defining Global and Local Cultures in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Seminar Room V/W

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"

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: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
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(9) Iberian Jesuits and Jesuit Missions in the Wider World
Seminar Room T/U

Chair: Thomas M. Cohen, Catholic University of America

Andrés Martínez, 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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(10) Sources and Resources for Research in Iberian and Atlantic History
Seminar Room E/F

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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(11) Spanish Monarchs and Historical Memory in Early Modern Culture: Representations in Art, Theater, and Royal Collections
Seminar Room Y/Z

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 Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library
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Coffee Break: Atrium outside Mahler Auditorium

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FRIDAY, APRIL 12
Georgia Center, Mahler Auditorium
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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(12) Strategies in Literary and Religious Expression in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Seminar Room T/U

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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(13) Religion and Gender in Early Modern Spain
Seminar Room V/W

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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(14) Linguistic Collisions: Translation in the Colonial Atlantic World
Seminar Room E/F

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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(15) Creating and Critiquing Royal Power in Habsburg Spain
Seminar Room Y/Z

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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Coffee Break: Second Floor Concourse

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SATURDAY, APRIL 13
Georgia Center
10:30 am-12:15 pm
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(16) La idea de España: Nation-Building in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Seminar Room T/U

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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(17) Perspectives on Medieval and Early Modern Frontier Societies
Seminar Room V/W

Chair: Timothy J. Schmitz, Wofford College

Frédérique Denis, University of Toronto: "Proctuction, 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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(18) Ecclesiastics and Their Descendants in the Age of Charles V
Seminar Room E/F

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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(19) Race and Religion in the Early Modern Portuguese World
Seminar Room Y/Z

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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(20) From Habsburgs to Bourbons: The Atlantic World in an Era of Transition
Seminar Room T/U

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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(21) Constituting the Atlantic World: Mexico and Brazil from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Seminar Room V/W

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"

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

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

Comment: Francis A. Dutra
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(22) Imaging the Spanish Civil War in Spain and Abroad
Seminar Room Y/Z

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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(23) Convents in the Colonial Atlantic World: Defining Community, Defining Gender
Seminar Room E/F

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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Coffee Break: Atrium outside Mahler Auditorium

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SATURDAY, APRIL 13
Georgia Center, Mahler Auditorium
4:00-5:30 pm    Business Meeting
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SATURDAY, APRIL 13
The Georgia Museum of Art
6:30 pm    Reception. Opportunity to view the Museum's collections.
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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(24) Portuguese Historico-Cultural Sources and Representations of "Other"
Seminar Room T/U

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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(25) Creating Patron Saints in Early Modern Spain
Seminar Room E/F

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
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Coffee Break: Second Floor Concourse

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Conference Organizer:

        Benjamin Ehlers, University of Georgia

Program Coordinators:

        A. Katie Harris, Georgia State University

        Joshua Goode, Occidental College
 

This conference has benefited greatly from the generosity of the following sponsors:

The Center for Humanities and Arts of the University of Georgia

The Program for Cultural Cooperation between the Spanish Ministry of Culture and United States Universities

The Department of Romance Languages of the University of Georgia