Early Modern (Dis)continuities will host a series of lectures and panel discussions with the aim of de-centering, reinterpreting, and recontextualizing common discourses around subjection, subalternity, marginalization, gender dynamics, and other markers that have been widely used to approach the diverse set of experiences, outlooks, and cultural productions of individuals living in Early Modern Iberian societies. With this one-day conference, we want to examine how scholarship produced in the field of Colonial Latin American Studies could transcend the geographical and historical boundaries that traditionally have defined the field; we aim to do this by establishing productive and diverse conversations between scholars working on different regions under Iberian rule or influence.

We will have three panels with professors and graduate students presenting their research on the Western Coast of Africa, the Andes, the Caribbean, Mexico, the Pacific Coast of Canada, Brazil, the Philippines, and Japan.

For questions, contact conference organizers You-Jin Kim, David Rivera, or Chloe Wheeler.

Event Schedule

9:00-10:15am

Keynote Speech: From the Colonial to the Global: A Personal Vision by Professor Ricardo Padrón (The University of Virginia)

10:15-10:30 

Coffee Break

10:30-11:45am

Panel I: Performance and Religious Celebration

Moderator: Professor Miguel Valerio (Washington University in St. Louis)

Presenters:

Ashford King 

Laura Catelli 

Chloe Wheeler 

12:00-1:15pm

Book Talk: The First Asians in the Americas by Professor Diego Luis (Johns Hopkins University)

1:15-2:00pm

Lunch Break

2:00-3:15pm

Panel II: Agency in Early Modern Documents

Moderator: Professor Lexie Cook (Yale University/Durham University)

Presenters:

Yangyou Fang

María Alejandra Peñuela

You-Jin Kim

Brandon Flora Dunlevy

3:15-3:30 

Coffee Break

3:30-4:45 pm

Panel III: Materiality and Spatial Imaginaries

Moderator: Professor Laura Catelli (Princeton University)

Presenters:

Amanda Pinheiro 

Marcos Perez Cañizares (Cornell University)

David Rivera

Esteban Crespo (Boston University)

3:45-5pm

Coffee Break

5:00-6:30pm

Closing Lecture: Agency in the Balance, in conversation with Professors Lexie Cook (Durham University/Yale University) and Miguel Valerio (Washington University in St. Louis)

Moderator: Professor Christina Lee (Princeton University)