Preliminary Program
36th Annual Meeting
The Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
March 10-13, 2005
Sessions 1-4 (9AM, Friday) 5-8
(10:45AM Friday) 9-12 (2PM Friday) 13-16 (3:30PM Friday)
Sessions 17-20 (9AM Saturday) 21-24
(10:45AM Saturday) 25-28 (2PM Saturday)
(All sessions will be in rooms on the
ground floor of the Education Center, College of Charleston, St. Philip
St. and Liberty)
Thursday March 10
4:00-6:00 pm: Welcome to
Charleston and the College of Charleston reception for SSPHS members.
The
reception
will be in the Blacklock House, 18 Bull
Street,
one of the
College's historic
buildings. Bull
Street
runs parallel and one block south of Calhoun
Street.
Number 18 is half
a block west from Coming
street and
the College
of Charleston
campus.
Friday
March 11
9-10:30 am
#1. Inquisitors, Clerics,
and Civic Officials: Political and Social Leaders in Early Modern Castile (room 112)
Chair: Teofilo
Ruiz, UCLA
Kimberly Lynn, Johns
Hopkins University,
Inquisitorial Ambition: Juan
Adám de la Parra
and the Patronage of the Count-Duke of Olivares
Katrina Olds, Princeton
University, The
Criteria
of Historical and Hagiographical Truth: The Discovery of Relics in the
Diocese
of Jaén, 1628-44
Claudia Mineo, UCLA, The
Struggle for Local Political Power:
Local Elites and Municipal Government in the Marquesado deVillena
Commentator:
Jenny Jordan, UCLA
#2.
Early Modern
Intellectual History (room 113)
Chair: Kate Van
Liere, Calvin
College
Moises Orfali, Bar-Ilan
University, Fray Luis de
León and
Daily Intrigues at the University
of Salamanca
Peter Villela, UCLA, ‘Haced que desde niños se den a la
virtud y trabajos’: The Transcultural History of Fernando de Alva
Ixtlilxochitl
Commentator: Kate
Van Liere, Calvin
College
#3. Remembering
from Exile (room 114)
Chair: Carolyn Boyd,
UC Irvine
Michelle Swindell, University
of Texas at Dallas, Exiles
for Excellence:
Nineteenth-Century Spanish Women Painters in Chaplin's Atelier
Javier R. Tapia, SUNY
Binghampton, The Last Exile:
“Guernica’s” Voyage from
the Profane to the Sacred, and the Collective Memory of the Spanish
Civil War
Commentator:
Carolyn Boyd,
UC Irvine
#4. Representations (room 115)
Chair: Jeffrey
Schrader, Bowling
Green
State University
Michael Anthony Furtado, University of Oregon, A
Dread of the Deep: Images of the Sea in Las Cantigas de Santa
María
Michael Stevens, Georgia
State University,
Imagining the Moorish Past: Early
Representations of Islamic Spain
Sabina de Cavi, National
Gallery of Art, La Piedad
del Rey:
An Outline of Habsburg Ecclesiastic Patronage in Southern
Italy (1597-1616)
Commentator:
Jeffrey Schrader, Bowling
Green State
University
10:45-12:15 (Friday, March 11)
#5. Medieval Spanish
Religion (room 112)
Chair: Teofilo Ruiz,
UCLA
Aaron Moreno, UCLA, The Adoptionist Christology
and the Rite
of Toledo:
Trends and Implications of Two Episodes of Trans-Pyrenean
Intra-Religious
Discord
Lucy K. Pick, University of Chicago,
Two
Eleventh-Century Spanish Prayer Books and their Royal Readers
Miguel Gómez, Appalachian State
University,
Royal Weddings and
Papal Politics
Commentator:
Teofilo Ruiz, UCLA
#6.
Death and Devotion in
Early Modern Spain (room 113)
Chair: David
Coleman, Eastern Kentucky
University
Ronald E. Surtz, Princeton University,
The Visionary
and the Priest: Tecla Servent and Suffrages for the Dead
Timothy J. Schmitz, Wofford
College, Rescripting Charles V
(A
revisit): Shaping the Image of the Emperor through the Transfers of
Royal
Remains to the Escorial
in 1574
Daniel Berenberg, UC San Diego,
Founder and Miracle Worker: Defining
and Promoting the Cults of
Ignatius of
Loyola and Francis Xavier in Seventeenth-Century Seville
Commentator: David
Coleman, Eastern Kentucky
University
#7. Shaping
Spanish Womanhood in and out of Spain (room 114)
Chair:
Pamela
Radcliff, UC San Diego
Jessica Davidson, James Madison University,
Educating Women: The Position of the
Sección
Femenina
Pilar
Domínguez Prats,
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,
Exiliadas españolas en
México (años
40 y 50)
Aurora G. Morcillo, Florida
International
University, Like Spain
Fallen. Prostitution under
Franco
Commentator: Pamela
Radcliff, UC San Diego
#8. Outsiders in the
early modern Hispanic world (room 115)
Chair: Allyson
Poska, University of
Mary
Washington
Nichole Prescott, Stony Brook
University, Women Wearing the Pants?
Female-Headed Households in Eighteenth-Century Granada
Zeb J. Tortorici, UCLA, 'Eran todos putos’: Sodomy
and
(Dis)order in Colonial Mexico
Sam Zeno Conedera, UCLA,
Mobile Noble: The Case of Juan
de Gayferos
Commentator: Allyson
Poska, University of
Mary
Washington
12:30-1:30pm: Lunch break
(unplanned)
2-3:30pm
(Friday, March 11)
#9. Gender, Sexuality,
and Survival in Portugal
1600-1800 (room 112)
Chair: Timothy
Coates, College
of Charleston
Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University
of Winnipeg, The Gender of
Forgiveness
in Early Modern Portugal
Francis A. Dutra, UC Santa Barbara, Sodomy and the
Portuguese Nobility during the
Restoration (1640-1668)
David Higgs, University of Toronto,
A Beata and
Biography: Leonarda Rosa and her Detractors, 1788-1794<>
Commentator:
Timothy Coates, College
of Charleston
#10. Muslims, Christians,
and Jews in Medieval Spain
(room 113)
Chair: William
Phillips, University
of Minnesota
Larry Simon, Western Michigan
University,
Converting the Converter: Mallorcan
Catechumens and Ramon Lull’s Dream
of
Conversion
Gregory Milton, Marquette
University, Lenders and
Creditors,
Christians and Jews: The Manipulation of Debt and Religious Identity in
Medieval Catalonia
Commentator: William
Phillips, University
of Minnesota
#11. The Aristocracy in
Early Modern Spain
and New Spain (room 114)
Chair: Aurelio
Espinosa, Arizona
State University
José Antonio Guillén
Berrendero,
Universidad Complutense, La nobleza
castellana en la
Edad Moderna. Factores de integración y de cambio
Irma Gonzalez Sanchez,
Universidad
de Oviedo, La nobleza en la Asturias
del siglo XVIII: Los Marqueses de
San
Esteban como
paradigma de nobleza tradicional
Miguel Luque Talaván,
Universidad
Autónoma del
Estado de Hidalgo, 'Es necesario que
todo cambia para que todo siga igual': Los Señores
Indígenas y la Propiedad de
la Tierra en la Nueva España
Commentator: Aurelio
Espinosa, Arizona
State University
#12. Proof, persuasion, and belief: Catholic faith
and
critical thinking in Tridentine Spain (room 115)
Chair: Timothy
Schmitz, Wofford
College
Lu Ann Homza, College of William
and Mary,
Inquisitors in Zugarramurdi,
1611-1613: Sense and Sensibility
Erin Kathleen Rowe, The Johns Hopkins
University,
Proving
History: Local Tradition, Liturgy, and Counter-Reformation
Historiography
Kate Elliot van
Liere, Calvin
College, Criticism
and Credulity in the
historical thought of Ambrosio de Morales
Commentator: Timothy Schmitz,
Wofford College
3:30-5pm (Friday, March
11)
#13. Colonial Commodities
and the Natural World: The Circulation of Goods and Knowledge in the
Spanish
Empire (room 112)
Chair: Carla Rahn
Phillips, University
of Minnesota
Paula de Vos, San Diego State
University, The
Search for Spices:
Entrepreneurialism and Economic Botany in the Spanish Empire
Antonio Barrera, Colgate University,
The British
learned from the Spaniards: Translating Nature from Spanish Books
Marcy Norton, George Washington
University,
Supply or Demand? How Tobacco and
Chocolate entered the Iberian Market
Commentator:
Carla Rahn Phillips, University
of Minnesota
#14. The Intellectual
Process (room 113)
Chair: Andrew Lee,
New York University
George Bryan Souza, Boxer Manuscripts II, Lilly
Library, Indiana
University: The
Collector, the
Collection, and Catalogue
Susan Tax Freeman, University
of Illinois at Chicago,
Spaniards and Social Change: A
Dynamic Looking Backward from the Anthropological Present
Commentator: Andrew
Lee, New York
University
#15. Colonial Inquisitions (room 114)
Chair: Allyson
Poska, University of
Mary
Washington
James E. Wadsworth, Stonehill
College, Usurpers and
Subverters of
the Holy Office in Colonial Pernambuco,
Brazil
Dana Velasco Murillo, UCLA, 'Aqui Hay Muchas
Brujas': Female
Delineations of Fluidity, Power, and Space in the Periphery, Colonial
Zacatecas
Mexico
Jesús González de
Chávez,
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria, La emigración a
América en los procesos
inquisitoriales por bigamia
(Tribunal del
Santo Oficio de Canarias, Siglo XVIII)
Commentator: Allyson
Poska, University of
Mary
Washington
#16. Modern Spanish
politics (room 115)
Chair: Aurora
Morcillo, Florida
International University
Hamilton
Stapell, Where's the Center?
Re-conceptualizing Spanish Nationalism, Regionalism, and the
Center-Periphery Model in the Post-Francoist Period
Pamela Radcliff, UC San Diego,
"Schools of Democracy": Creating a
New Civic Discourse in the
Neighborhood Associations of the
1960s-70s
Christine Bridges and James Esser,
Lamar University, A
Proposal for Peace in the Basque
Country: The Fueros
and the Ibarretxe Plan
Commentator: Aurora
Morcillo, Florida
International University
6:00pm: Buses will leave from the hotels for
Bowen's
Island and Low Country buffet dinner.
The plenary speaker will be Isabel dos Guimaraes Sa, Universidade de
Braga
Saturday March 12
9-10:30am
#17. Race and Religion (room 112)
Chair: Bill
Donovan, Loyola
College
Aurelio Espinosa, University
of Arizona, The Study of
Religious
Mestizaje in the Viceroyalty and Bishopric of Mexico
Tanya Tiffany, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Servitude
and Salvation in Velázquez’s Supper at
Emmaus
Thomas T. Orum, Slippery Rock
University,
Penitents, Pilgrims, and
Parishioners: Afro-Lusitanians and Nossa
Senhora de
Atalaia
Commentator: Bill
Donovan, Loyola
College
#18.
Portugal in
the Late Middle Ages (room 113)
Chair: Darlene
Abreu-Ferreira,
University
of Winnipeg
Ivana Elbl, Trent University, Camaraderie
and Appeasement: King Afonso V and the Portuguese Nobility in the 1450s
Susannah Humble Ferreira, University
of Guelph, Kinship and
Property: The
Politics of Land Ownership in Late Fifteenth Century Portugal
Commentator: Darlene
Abreu-Ferreira, University
of Winnipeg
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#19. Spain
during the long Nineteenth Century (room 114)
Chair: David Ringrose,
UC San Diego
Juan
Manuel Santana Pérez, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran
Canaria,
Carlos IV: ¿El último
gobierno del despotismo ilustrado y el primer fracaso del
Liberalismo en
España?
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Fordham
University, Between Columbus
and
Toussaint: Spanish Colonialism in the Caribbean
after the Haitian Revolution
Javier Marquez Quevedo,
Universidad de Las Palmas
de Gran
Canaria, La relación
Canarias-estado español en torno a
la crisis internacional
de 1898
Commentator:
David Ringrose, UC San Diego
#20. Religion under the
Habsburgs (room 115)
Chair: Lu Ann
Homza,
College
of William
and Mary
Jessica A. Boon, Duke University,
Like Mother,
Like Son: The Elevation of Mary in Castilian Treatises on the Passion
Jeffrey A. Schrader, Bowling Green State
University, The Spanish Habsburgs, Warfare, and the
Militant Virgin
Emma Furniss, Leiden
University, The Franciscan
Patronage
Network in Aragon,
c. 1500-1558
Commentator: Lu
Ann Homza, College of William
and Mary
10:45-12:15pm (Saturday, March 12)
#21. Roundtable: The
Current and Future State of Portuguese History in North America (room 115)
Douglas Wheeler, Emeritus
University of New Hampshire
Timothy Coates, College of Charleston
Francis Dutra, UC Santa Barbara
Isabel dos Guimaraes Sa, University of Braga
Antonio Costa Pinto,
ISCETE,U.of Lisboa
#22. Women and Violence in
Early Modern Spain
(room 112)
Chair: Helen
Nader, University
of Arizona
Stephanie Fink de Backer, Arizona
State University
at the West Campus, Murder in a Small
Town
and the Usual
Suspect?: Widowhood and Municipal Life in the Sixteenth Century
Grace E. Coolidge, Grand
Valley State
University, Inheriting a
Violent
Society: Women, Death, and Power in Early Modern Spain
Edward
Behrend-Martinez, Appalachian State University,
The Legal
Rhetoric of Tyranny and Correction in the Domestic Realm
Commentator:
Renato Barahona, University
of Illinois
Chicago
#23. Cultural
Modernization in 19th and 20th Century Spain (room 113)
Chair: Andrew
MacFarland, Gettysburg
College
Scott Eastman, UC Irvine, Modernity and National
Identity in
Early Nineteenth Century Spain
Andrew MacFarland, Gettysburg College,
Enacting Physical Regeneration: The
Foundation of the Real Sociedad
Gimnástica
Española
Clinton D. Young,
UC San Diego, Composers, Conservatives, and Culture:
Theatrical Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Spain
Commentator:
Joshua Goode, Occidental
College
#24. Overseas Conflict (room 114)
Chair: James Tueller,
Brigham Young University-
Hawaii
Alberto Anaya, Universidad de
Las Palmas de Gran
Canarias,
Consecuencias materials y
espirituales de la acción corsaria
berberisca contra
las Islas Canarias (ss.XVI-XVIII)
Kevin Sheehan, UC Berkeley, The Rationalization of
Empire:
Iberian Asia in the mid-Seventeenth Century
Commentator: James
Tueller, Brigham Young
University- Hawaii
12:30-1:30 pm: Lunch break
(unplanned)
12:30-1:30 pm: SSPHS executive
council, lunch meeting TBA
2-3:15 pm
(Saturday March 12)
#25. Spanish Fascism and
Republican Revolution (room 112)
Chair : Michael
Seidman, UNC Wilmington
Silvina Schammah
Gesser, Tel
Aviv University,
A
Critical Reassessment of the Vanguard
Roots of Spanish Fascism, 1923-1936:The Case of Ernesto Giménez
Caballero
Jordi Getman-Eraso, Bronx Community
College, Antes
que el fascismo, la revolución social:’
Anarchosyndicalist Revolutionary Rhetoric and the Construction of a
Perceived
Fascist Threat, 1933-1936
Joseph Parello, Vanderbilt University Medical
Center, The
Spanish
Republicans in the Free French Forces (1940-1945)
Commentator:
Michael Seidman, UNC Wilmington
#26. Portuguese Diplomatic
History (room 113)
Chair:
Paula
Noversea Rioux, U Mass Dartmouth
Pedro Oliveira, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa, The Estado Novo regime and the Portguese
Diplomatic Corps 1930-1974
Fernando Martins, Universidade
de Evora,
Portuguese Foreign
Policy and the Suez Crisis
Pedro Leite de Faria,
Universidade do Porto,
Hidden meanings in Luzo-Brazilian
Relations: An interaction between
foreign
affairs and cultural relations during the Estado Novo period
Commentator: Paula
Noversea Rioux, U Mass Dartmouth
#27. Medical Knowledge in
the Hispanic World (room 114)
Chair: Marcy
Norton, George
Washington University
Michele L. Clouse, Ohio University,
Aparicio’s Oil: Medical Secrets and
Royal Patronage in
Sixteenth-Century Spain
Kristy Wilson Bowers, Northern
Illinois University,
The Scientific Revolution in Spain:
The Work of Bartolomé Hidalgo de Agüero
Xóchitl Flores
Marcial, UCLA, 'Todo el
pueblo, en forma de tumulto se arrojó al
Hospital y han
sacado todos los enfermos': The Threat of Contagion and Rebellion in
the
Oaxacan Valley Native Community
Commentator:
Marcy Norton, George
Washington University
#28. Women and Power in
Early Modern Iberia
(room 115)
Chair: Grace
Coolidge, Grand
Valley State University
Peggy Liss, Isabel I: Topics and Topicality
Martha Hoffman-Strock, Brooklyn
College, Politics and Kinship
in the
Household of Margarita of Austria
1599-1611 (and beyond)
Monique Vallance, UC Santa
Barbara, D. Luisa de
Gusmão and
Her Personal Letters: 1662-1666
Commentator:
Grace Coolidge, Grand
Valley State University
3:30-5:00: SSPHS business meeting
(room 116)
5:30-8:30: Reception for all SSPHS
members at the home of Timothy Coates.
A mini-bus will shuttle back
and forth between the hotels and his home (76 Darlington Avenue).
Departures from the hotels: 5:30,
6:00, 6:30.
Return departures: 7:30, 8:00, 8:30.