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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
46TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE HISTORICAL STUDIES
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE
19-22 MARCH 2015
THURSDAY, 19 MARCH 2015
OPENING RECEPTION
Gilman Atrium, 5.00-7.00PM
Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Program of History of Science, Medicine and Technology
FRIDAY, 20 MARCH 2015
CONCURRENT SESSION I (8.30-9.50AM)
Session 1 (Room AV1)
New Approaches to Modern Iberian Political Culture
Chair: Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Trent University
Andrew McFarland, Indiana University Kokomo: “Catalá, Barca, and Hans Gamper: Cultural Identity in
Barcelona’s First Clubs”
Melissa Teixeira, Princeton University: “Experiments in Interwar Constitutionalism: The Writing and Diffusion
of the 1933 Portuguese Constitution”
M. Pilar Diezhandino Nieto, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid: “Monarquía y república: El viejo debate que no
tiene cabida en los tiempos que corren”
Session 2 (Room X1)
Insiders and Outsiders: Identity and Power in Three Iberian Communities between the Fourth and Eighteenth
Centuries
Chair: Molly Lester, Princeton University
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Rebecca A. Devlin, University of Florida: “Priscillianism in Gallaecia: Late Roman Clerical Communities in their
Social Contexts”
Alana Lord, University of Florida: “’Lo Cors de Deu’: Royal Power and Perceptions of ‘Otherness’ in the
Fourteenth-Century Crown of Aragon”
Diana Reigelsperger, Seminole State University: “’Nosotros los Isleños’: Canary Islander Identity in Spanish
Florida, 1757-1763”
Comment: Ida Altman, University of Florida
Session 3 (Room X2)
Language and Knowledge in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Chair: Katrina B. Olds, University of San Francisco
María Luisa Domínguez Gerrero, Universidad de Sevilla: “Notaries and Documents in Seville during the Early
Modern Period”
Patricia W. Manning, University of Kansas: “Training in Vernacular Languages in the Jesuit Province of
Aragon”
Brian Hamm, University of Florida: “Negotiated Categories, Disputed Interpretations: Multiple Meanings of
‘Portuguese’ in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America”
Session 4 (Room SCI)
History of Iberian Science & Medicine
Anatomies of Empire: Science and the Body in the Iberian Atlantic
Chair: Michele Clouse, Ohio University
Pablo F. Gómez, University of Wisconsin, Madison: “The Spanish Asiento and the Invention of the
Quantifiable Body”
Hugh Cagle, University of Utah: “The Deniable Body: Nature and Disease in Colonial Brazil, 1549-1565”
Gabriela Ramos, Cambridge University: “The Body in Words: The Sermons of Francisco de Ávila, 1648”
Caroline Schmitz, Instituto de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia “López Piñero” UV-CSIC: “Interrogating
the Patient: The Experience of Illness in the Inquisitory Processes in Early Modern Spain”
CONCURRENT SESSION II (10.00-11.20AM)
Session 5 (Room AV1)
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Spirituality, Obscenity, and Consumption: Visual Culture in the Spanish Empire
Chair: Jodi Bilinkoff, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Cristina Cruz Gonzalez, Oklahoma State University: “Female Spirituality and Visual Culture in the Early
Modern Spanish World”
Luis Corteguera, University of Kansas: “The Power of the Obscene in Early Modern Spain”
Carmen Ripollés, Portland State University: “Consumption, Empire, and Decline in Antonio de Pereda’s
Allegory of Lost Virtue (c. 1650)”
Session 6 (Room X1)
Queens, Healers, and Maids: The Diverse Roles of Women in the Luso-Hispanic World
Chair: Sara T. Nalle, William Paterson University
Allison Rogers, Georgia Southern University: “The Merry Monarch’s Marriage: The Economic and Political
Repercussions of the Wedding of Charles II and Catherine of Braganza”
Teresa Ordorika-Sacritán and Angélica Morales-Sarabia, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en
Cienca y Humanidades, UNAM: “Baths and Saumerios: Curing Women in 17th Century New Spain”
Yolopattli I. Hernández-Torres, Loyola University Maryland: “There is No Productivity in Seamstresses, Wetnurses, and Maids: The Case of Women’s Work in Late Colonial Mexico”
Session 7 (Room X2)
Towards a Historiography of the Modern Iberian Transatlantic
Chair: Scott Eastman, Creighton University
Matthew E. Franco, Johns Hopkins University: “A Man Within and Without Empire: Vicente Sebastián Pinto,
the Last Surveyor General of Spanish West Florida”
Rafael Dias da Silva Campos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa: “Insurgent Doctors: Sedition and Medical Theses
of Luso-Brazilians in Montpellier”
Robert L. Long, Elmhurst College: “Voices without End: The Memes of Antonio José and Victor Jara”
Session 8 (Room X3)
Urban Politics in Modern Spain
Chair/Comment: Enrique Sanabria, University of New Mexico
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Marcelo Frias Núñez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid: “Los nuevos espacios del saber in la España del siglo
XIX”
Mark Bray, Rutgers University: “The Anarchist Inquisition: Terrorism and the Ethics of Modernity in Spain,
1893-1909”
Andrea Davis, University of California, San Diego: “El Plan Popular: The Institutionalization of the Urban
Movement during the Transition in Spain”
Session 9 (Room SCI)
History of Iberian Science & Medicine
Colonial Hybrids, Part I: Indigenous Beliefs, Natural Philosophy, and Early Modern Science
Chair: Laura Caso Barrera, Colegio de Postgraduados-Campus Puebla
Valeria López Fadul, Princeton University: Etymologies and the Study of Nature: Fracisco Hernández and his
Commentaries to Pliny”
Oscar Rodríguez Rodríguez, Centro de Estudios de Geografía Humana de El Colegio de Michoacán, A.C.:
“Cartografía colonial: una revisión de las primeras pinturas del siglo XVI del Valle de Etla, Oaxaca”
Roberto Chauca, University of Florida: “The Conibo-Spanish Production of Cartographic Knowledge of Early
Modern Western Amazonia”
MORNING ROUNTABLE (11.30AM-12.30PM)
History of Iberian Science & Medicine
Ten Years since “Beyond the Black Legend” (Valencia, 2005), Part I
Moderator: María M. Portuondo, Johns Hopkins University
José Pardo Tomás, CSIC-Barcelona
Henrique Leitao, University of Lisbon
Antonio Barrera, Colegate University
María Luz López Terrada, CSIC-Valencia
LUNCH (12.30-2.00PM)
CONCURRENT SESSION III (2.00-3.20PM)
Session 10 (Room AV1)
Empires, Histories, and Historiographies: The Iberian and the Ottoman Empires in Perspective
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Chair: Alejandra B. Osorio, Wellesley College
Alejandra B. Osorio, Wellesley College: “Of National Boundaries and Imperial Geographies: The Perils of
(Prevailing) Historiographical Understandings of the Spanish Habsburg Empire”
Murat C. Menguc, Seton Hall University: “Conventions of a Bottom-Up History: Authors, the State, and the
Emergence of Ottoman Historiography”
Kirsten Schultz, Seton Hall University: “An Imperial Republic: History and Conquest in Eighteenth-Century
Portugal”
Sivia Z. Mitchell, Purdue University: “Dynasty and Empire: The Geopolitical Dimension of Mariana of Austria’s
Regency”
Comment: The Audience
Session 11 (Room X1)
Between Two Worlds: Images, Reforms, and Ideas on Political Economy in Spain and Latin America (17611829)
Chair/Comment: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts University
Jesús Astigarraga, Universidad de Zaragoza: “An Illuminating Discovery: SImon de Aragorri’s Reflexiones sobre
el estado actual del comercio de España (1761) and its Ideas on the Reform of the Atlantic Commerce”
Javier Usoz, Universidad de Zaragoza: “Images of Spain and Latin America in the Translation of the Genovesi’s
Lezioni di commercio by Victorián de Villava (1785-86)”
Juan Zabalza, Universidad de Alicante: “José Joaquín de Mora and the Spread of Economic LIberalism in Latin
America in the Early 19th Century”
Session 12 (Room X2)
Political Women in Modern Spain
Chair: Pamela Radcliff, University of California, San Diego
Adrian Shubert, York University: “’A Woman in Progressive Politics’: Jacinta Martínez de Sicilia y Santa Cruz
and the Progresista Crisis of 1864”
Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Trent University: “Blue Angels: Re-assessing the Role of Women in the Francoist
Fifth Column”
Aitana Guia, York University: “Agency and Women’s Rights: Muslim Women Challenge Gendered
Islamophobia”
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Session 13 (Room X3)
The Uncanny in Early Modern Spain
Chair: Marcy Norton, Washington University
Sherry M. Velasco, University of Southern California: “The Quixotic Uncanny: Specter(s) of Dulcinea”
Elena del Río Parra, Georgia State University: “Does Singularity Exist in Nature? The Case of Roque Martínez
(ca. 1633), who Grew a Plant inside Him”
Marta V. Vicente, University of Kansas: “Breastfeeding Men in Enlightenment Debates: Reason and
Imagination”
Comment: Patricia W. Manning, University of Kansas
Session 14 (Room SCI)
History of Iberian Science & Medicine
Colonial Hybrids, Part II: Indigenous Beliefs and Early Modern Medicine
Chair: Hugh Cagle, University of Utah
Ryan A. Kashanipour, Northern Arizona University: “Between Magic and Medicine: Healing in Late-Colonial
Yucatán”
Iris Montero Sobrevilla, Brown University: “Hummingbirds for Epilepsy: Hybrid Healing and Authority in
Francisco Hernández’s Natural History of New Spain”
Laura Caso Barrera, Colegio de Postgraduados-Campus Puebla: “Medical Texts, Treatments, and Prescriptions
in the Mayan Manuscript of the Chilam Balam of Ixil”
Comment: Paula De Vos, San Diego State University
CONCURRENT SESSION IV (3.30-4.50PM)
Session 15 (Room AV1)
Questions of Identity in the Portuguese Empire
Chair: Pedro Cardim, Nova University of Lisbon
Alexander Ponsen, University of Pennsylvania: “Sertanejo Intermediaries and the Rise of Portuguese Power in
Southern Brazil and Southeast Africa, 1550-1650”
Stephanie Hassell, Duke University: “Territorial Identities in Portuguese India: Slavery and Religious
Landscapes in the Sixteenth Century”
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Miguel Dantas da Cruz, Universidade de Lisboa: “Circulation and Identity Formation in the Portuguese
Atlantic World (1640-1680)”
Session 16 (Room AV2)
Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Part I
Chair: Catherine Hall-van den Elsen, RMIT University, Melbourne
Michelle Armstrong-Partida, University of Texas at El Paso: “Reconsidering the Importance of Marriage for
Women: Catalan Peasant Women and the Widespread Practice of Concubinage”
Elizabeth Hutchin-Bellur, University of St. Andrews: “Where La Frontera Meets The Help: Elucidating
Women’s Relationships at the Borders of Faith and Ethnicity in the Households of Late Medieval and Early
Modern Castile”
Jillian Williams, University of Bristol: “Cooking, Domestic Violence, and Religious Coercion in SixteenthCentury Spain”
Sara T. Nalle, William Paterson University: “’I Taught Myself’: Literacy among Judeoconversa Women in Spain
and Portugal, 1560-1720”
Session 17 (Room X1)
Iberian Authors and the Wider World: The Power of Narrative
Chair: Mafalda Soares da Cunha, Universidade de Évora
Rita Costa-Gomes, Towson University: “Fernão Lopes and his Chronicles: The Case of King Fernando I”
Arlette de Jesús, Duquesne University: “Saint Teresa of Ávila’s Discourse of Power: A Study of Her Letters of
Phillip II”
Blanda Feminías, American University: “From the Shade into the Sun? Re-envisioning Jorge Juan as Author of
the Viaje a la América Meridional”
Session 18 (Room X2)
Iberian Revolutionaries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chair: Montserrat Miller, Marshall University
José Miguel Sardica, Catholic University of Portugal: “Contemporary Portuguese Revolutionarism: A Survey
on Numbers and Roots”
Jesus Cruz, University of Delaware: “The Backgrounds of the 1868 Revolution and the Modern City”
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Julia Hudson-Richards, Pennsylvania State University Altoona: “Collectivization and Cooperation in Valencian
Agriculture, 1898-1939”
Session 19 (Room SCI)
History of Iberian Science & Medicine
Materiality and Knowledge Transmission
Chair: María Portunado, Johns Hopkins University
Maud Kozodoy, New York University: “Paratext and Marginalia: Late Medieval Jewish Physicians and their
Manuscripts”
Ana Rodrigues, Universidad de Évora: “Treatises and Books on Botany Circulating in Portugal between the
16th and 18th Centuries and their Connections with the History of Medicine”
Daniel Koski-Karell, Independent Scholar: “A Voyage Interrupted: The 1601 Wreck of the Manila Galleon
Santa Margarita”
José Julio Zerpa Rodriguez, Universidad de Guadalajara: “Geological Inquiries in West Mexico: Two Moments
in the History of Colima’s ‘Volcán de Fuego’, 1818-1913”
AFTERNOON ROUNDTABLE (5.00-6.00PM)
Teaching Iberian History: Spain and Portugal in Survey Courses
Moderator: Sandie Holguín, University of Oklahoma
Scott Eastman, Creighton University
Enrique Sanabria, University of New Mexico
Adrian Shubert, York University
Karl Trybus, Limestone College
SATURDAY, 21 MARCH 2015
CONCURRENT SESSION V (8.30-9.50AM)
Session 20 (Room AV1)
Visualizing the Urban Landscape in 20th Century Spain
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Chair: Silvina Schammah Gesser, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Maite Barragán, Temple University: “Ambivalent Landscapes: The Rural and Urban in the Escuela de Vallecas”
Anna Wieck, University of Michigan: “Landscape and Anti-Landscape in Spanish Avant-Garde Painting”
Silvina Schammah Gesser, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: “Revisiting Arte y Estado: The Aesthetics
Manifesto of Early Francoist Spain”
Noemi de Haro García, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: “’El barrio es nuestro’: Murals to Create Urban
Landscapes”
Comment: Maite Barragán, Temple University
Session 21 (Room AV2)
Governing Complexity in the Portuguese Empire under the Habsburgs, Part I: The Governance of the
Portuguese Atlantic
Chair: Gabriel Paquette, Johns Hopkins University
Fernanda Olival, Universidade de Évora: “Rewarding Services in the Portuguese Atlantic Empire (17th
Century): A Comparative Approach
Mafalda Soares da Cunha, Universidade de Évora: “Claiming the ‘Merit’ of Governing the Empire (16th and
17th Centuries): The Governors of the Portuguese Atlantic in a Comparative Perspective”
Pedro Cardim, Nova University of Lisbon: “The Circulation of Royal Norms within the Portuguese Atlantic
World”
Comment: Stuart Schwartz, Yale University
Session 22 (Room X1)
Religious Authority and Institutions in the Spanish Empire
Chair: Katrina B. Olds, University of San Francisco
Lauren MacDonald, Johns Hopkins University: “Cisneros and the Hieronymites: Religion and Authority in the
Early Iberian Atlantic”
Ashley Ellington, Georgia Southern University: “The Council of the Indies: Governing Religion”
Ricardo Raul Salazar Rey, University of Connecticut: “Casos de Fe: Slave Interactions with Religious
Institutions in the Spanish Empire”
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Session 23 (Room SCI)
History of Iberian Science & Medicine
New Studies in the History of Science in Colonial Latin America
Chair: John Slater, University of California, Davis
Fernando Luna Oliveira, Northern Rio de Janeiro State University: “A Case Study on the Flow of Information
about Medicinal Plants between Europe and South America Linking La Condamine and the Brazilian Botanist
Fray Veloso in the 18th Century”
Tayra M.C. Lanuza-Navarro, Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies Villa I Tatti: “The Nature of Peruvian
Stars: Descriptions of the New World and the Need for a Renovated Astrology”
Gerardo Martínez Hernández, CSIC Barcelona: “Juan Pérez de Ribaguda, Imperial Physician: 1598-1623”
CONCURRENT SESSION VI (10.00-11.20AM)
Session 24 (Room AV1)
Governing Complexity in the Portuguese Empire under the Habsburgs, Part II: Useful Knowledge to Govern the
Empire
Chair: Neil Safier, Brown University
Giuseppe Marocci, University of Tuscia: “Transformations in Portuguese Imperial Historiography (16th and
17th Centuries)”
Ângela Barreto Xavier, University of Lisbon: “Knowing the Land and the Making of Indian Christianity”
Federico Palomo, Universidad Complutense: “Tropical Mysticism: Franciscan Spirituality and Missionary
Knowledge in the Portuguese Atlantic in the Late 17th Century”
Comment: Ines G. Županov (EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
Session 25 (Room X1)
The Labyrinths of Spanish American Loyalism and Independence
Chair: Adrian Shubert, York University
Mónica Ricketts, Temple University: “Independence and the Theatre (Lima, 1810-1824)”
Álvaro Caso Bello, Johns Hopkins University: “Nicolás Herrera: Identity, Politics, Patriotism, and Independence
in the Río de la Plata Region (1806-1823)”
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts University: “Loyalism and Captivity in the Spanish American Revolutions”
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Session 26 (Room X2)
Comparing the Spanish and Portuguese Transitions to Democracy
Chair: Pamela Radcliff, University of California, San Diego
Pamela Radcliff, University of California, San Diego: “Unsettling the Iberian Transitions to Democracy: A
Comparative Approach”
Guya Accornero, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (Lisbon): “The Revolution before the
Revolution: Student Protest and Political Radicalization at the End of the Portuguese Estado Novo”
António Costa Pinto and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, University of Lisbon: “The Legacies of Authoritarianism
and Late Colonialism in Contemporary Portuguese Democracy”
Comment: Andrea Davis, University of California, San Diego
Session 27 (Room X3)
In Observance of the 500th Anniversary of the Birth of Teresa of Avila on March 28, 1515: The Life, Life, and
Afterlife of Teresa of Avila, 1515-2015
Chair: Erin Kathleen Rowe, Johns Hopkins University
Carole Slade, Columbia University: “The Ages of Wo[man] in the Life of St. Teresa”
Jodi Bilinkoff, University of North Carolina at Greensboro: “Teresa of Avila as Reader, Writer, and Inspirer of
Books”
Carlos Eire, Yale University: “Early Modern Translations of Teresa of Avila’s Life”
Comment: Alison Weber, University of Virginia
Session 28 (Room SCI)
History of Iberian Science & Medicine
Science, Medicine, and Artistic Expression in the Iberian World
Chair: Pablo F. Gómez, University of Wisconsin, Madison
John Slater, University of California, Davis, and María Luz López Terrada, CSIC-Valencia: “Quevedo, Satire, and
the Sound of Science”
Nicolás Fernández-Medina, Pennsylvania State University: “The Visible, Invisible, and Repressed in Diego de
Torres Villarroel’s Anatomical Investigations”
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Antonio Sánchez Martínez, University of Lisbon: “Art and Cosmography in Henriquinian Style: The Impact of
Overseas Expansion in Portuguese Gothic Architecture and Culture during the Reign of Manuel I, 1495-1521”
MORNING ROUNDTABLE (11.30AM-12.30PM)
History of Iberian Science & Medicine
Ten Years since “Beyond the Black Legend” (Valencia, 2005), Part II
Moderator: María M. Portuondo, Johns Hopkins University
Tayra Lanuza, Universitat de València
Paula de Vos, San Diego State University
John Slater, University of California, Davis
Juan Pimentel, CSIC-Madrid
LUNCH (12.30-2.00PM)
CONCURRENT SESSION VII (2.00-3.20PM)
Session 29 (Room AV1)
Multiple Dimensions of Spanish Fascism
Chair: Clinton D. Young, University of Arkansas at Monticello
Ángel Alcalde, European University Institute: “Francoist Veterans and Fascism in Spain (1936-1975)”
Bécquer Seguín, Cornell University: “Fascism Disavowed: Carl Schmitt and the Spanish Economic Miracle”
Federico Naldi, Independent Scholar: “Raza, Imperio, Hispanidad: The Feast of October 12th in the Two Spains
(1936-1942)
Session 30 (Room AV2)
Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Part II
Chair: Michelle Armstrong-Partida, University of Texas at El Paso
Zaellotius Wilson, Arizona State University: “Sancha’s Palace-Monastery Complex: The Rebuilding of the
Leonese Community in the Eleventh Century”
Holly Kashin Brown, CUNY Graduate Center: “Spes Nostra. Salue!: Isabel de Villena’s Vita Christi, a Master
Teacher Confronts the ‘Woman Question’”
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Catherine Hall-van den Elsen, RMIT University: “Historical Perspectives on Luisa Roldán’s (Early) Modern
Family: The Documentary Evidence”
Session 31 (Room X1)
Going Bust: State, Firms, and the Business of Empire in Portugal, 1580-1750
Chair: Susana Münch Miranda, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Edgar Pereira, Leiden University: “Bankruptcies, Contratos, and Business Portfolios in Early Seventeenth
Century Portuguese West Africa (1580-1640)
João Paulo Salvado, Universidade de Évora: “The Rise and Fall of a Lisbon Mercantile House, 1710-1770”
Susana Münch Miranda, Universidade Nova de Lisboa: “Merchants and the Portuguese Tobacco Monopoly:
The Failure of a Dutch Firm in Lisbon, 1722-1727”
Comment: Cátia Antunes, Leiden University
Session 32 (Room X2)
Monarchs and Courtiers
Chair: Richard L. Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
Janna Bianchini, University of Maryland, College Park: “The Case of the Broken Dam: Violence, Justice, and
Queenly Authority in León-Castile”
Nancy F. Marino, Michigan State University: “Protocol and Ceremony at the Court of the Catholic Monarchs:
The Wedding of Juan of Castile and Margaret of Austria”
Mercedes Llorente, Fundación Carlos de Amberes: “Where is the Aya? The Retinue in Las Meninas and
Mariana in Mourning”
Session 33 (Room SCI)
History of Iberian Science & Medicine
Translating Nature: A Cross-Cultural History of Early Modern Science
Chair: Jaime Marroquín Arredondo, Western Oregon University
Juan Pimentel Igea, CSIC-Madrid: “Sighting, Discovery, and Depictions of the South Sea: On Núñez de Balboa,
Ponquiaco, and Some of the First Images and News of the Pacific Ocean”
Marcy Norton, George Washington University: “Mestizo Science: Amerindian Knowledge, Natural History,
and the Ornithology of Francis Willughby”
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José Pardo-Tomás, CSIC-Barcelona: “Indigenous and European Agency in Francisco Hernández’s Historia
natural de la Nueva España”
María M. Portuondo, Johns Hopkins University: “Crystalline Spheres and the Five Suns: Aristotelian Natural
Philosophy in the Nahua World”
Comment: Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland
CONCURRENT SESSION VIII (3.30-4.50PM)
Session 34 (Room AV1)
Spain under Franco, at Home and Abroad
Chair: Andrew Lee, New York University
Alejandro J. Gomez del Moral, University of Southern Mississippi: “’The Winds of Change are Coming’: The
Supermarket and International Integration in Franco’s Spain, 1956-1966”
Dave Henderson, University of California, San Diego: “Autarky and Landscape: The Social Studies of the
National Institute of Colonization in the Badajoz Province”
Juan Carlos Sánchez Illán, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid: “El debate monarquía república en la España del
exilio, 1939-1975”
Session 35 (Room X1)
Enlightenment Alternatives in Early Modern Spain, 1707-1833
Chair/Comment: Allyson M. Poska, University of Mary Washington
Phillip D. Fox, Simpson University: “Alternative Visions of a More Uniform State: Strengthening the Monarchy
though Regional Variation”
George A. Klaeren, University of Kansas: “La Verdad Católica, La Falso Filosofia: Traditionalism, CounterEnlightenment, and Epistemic Alternatives in Eighteenth-Century Spain”
Charles Nicolas Saenz, Adams State University: “Alternative Visions of a More Rational State: Rationalizing the
Internal Boundaries of Peninsular Spain, 1707-1833”
Session 36 (Room X2)
The Construction of Kingship in Medieval Iberia: Practices and Discourses
Chair: Teofilo F. Ruiz, University of California, Los Angeles
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Hermenegildo Fernandes, University of Lisbon: “Literacy, Charisma, and Legitimacy in Medieval Iberia:
Comparing the Petty Kingdoms and the Portuguese Monarchy”
Maria João Branco, Nova University of Lisbon: “The Bishop of Coimbra, the King of Portugal, and the Pope in
Rome: Some Thoughts on Christian Conflict and Conviviality in the Iberian World (Late 12th-Early 13th
Centuries)”
Herminia Vasconcelos Vilar, University of Evora: “Serving the King and Serving God: Ecclesiastics, Kings, and
Models of Service in Portugal and Castile (13th-14th Centuries)”
Session 37 (Room X3)
Spain and the Pacific, 1492-1793
Chair: David Ringrose, University of California, San Diego and Maritime Museum of San Diego
Kevin Sheehan, Maritime Museum of San Diego: “The Quest for gente política: The Spanish Search for Fitting
Subjects in the Sixteenth-Century Pacific”
George Souza, University of Texas, San Antonio: “Comopolitans and Global Commercial Intelligence and
Strategies: Joseph Pereira Viana and the Real Compañia de Filipinas, 1788-1793”
David Ringrose, University of California, San Diego and Maritime Museum of San Diego: “What do Istanbul,
Columbus, Lima, and Manila Have in Common?”
Comment: Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia
Session 38 (Room SCI)
History of Iberian Science & Medicine
Modern Iberian Science
Chair: Matthew E. Franco, Johns Hopkins University
Ignacio Suay-Matallana, Chemical Heritage Foundation: “Customs Laboratories and the Circulation of
Scientific Knowledge in mid-19th Century Spain”
Johanna Römer, New York University: “The Science of Security in Early 20th Century Spain”
Quintino Lopes, Universidad de Évora: “The National Education Board (Junta de Educação Nacional—JEN) and
Scientific Research in Portugal in the 1930s”
AFTERNOON ROUNDTABLE (5.00-6.00PM)
Teaching Iberian History: Specific Issues
Moderator: Clinton D. Young, University of Arkansas at Monticello
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Jessica Davidson, James Madison University
David Messenger, University of Wyoming
Sean Perrone, Saint Anselm College
Samuel Pierce, College of Charleston
Allyson Poska, University of Mary Washington
BUSINESS MEETING (6.00-7.00PM)
BANQUET AND PLENARY SESSION
7.00 PM, The Glass Pavilion
Keynote Address: Teofilo F. Ruiz, University of California, Los Angeles
SUNDAY, 22 MARCH 2015
CONCURENT SESSION IX (9.00-10.20AM)
Session 40 (Room AV1)
The Heritage of Roman and Visigothic Spain
Chair: Kyle C. Lincoln, Webster University
Thomas J. McIntyre, Georgia Southern University: “Sons of Spain, Sons of the Church: Pope Damasus,
Theodosius the Great, and the Triumph of Christianity”
Anahit Ter-Stepanian, Sacred Heart University: “Visigothic Steles: Rethinking Sources and Connections”
Ronald Lvovski, York University: “Regnum Gothorum: Visigothic Continuity in the Kingdom of Asturias”
Session 40 (Room X1)
Marginalized Identities and Cultural Production in Modern Spain
Chair: Sandie Holguín, University of Oklahoma
Allyson C. González, Brandeis University: “The ‘True’ Catholic Woman was Sephardic? Rebecca Aguilar and
the Ambiguities of Spanish Womanhood”
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Charles A. McDonald, New School for Social Research: “Return to Sefarad: Towards a History of the Jewish
Present in Spain”
Louie Dean Valencia García, Fordham University: “Clashing with Fascism: Spain’s Democratic Transition in
Punk Comic Books”
Comment: Joshua Goode, Claremont Graduate University
Session 41 (Room X2)
All Shook Up: Portugal in the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Kirsten Schultz, Seton Hall University
Mark Molesky, Seton Hall University: “Saving Lisbon: The Great European Relief Effort of 1755”
Tyson Reeder, University of California, Davis: “Architects of the State: The Rebuilding of Lisbon and the
Portuguese Public Sphere, 1755-77”
Renata Ferreira Munhoz, University of São Paulo: “The Intersubjectivity in the Eighteenth-Century Portuguese
Official Discourse”
Session 42 (Room SCI)
History of Iberian Science & Medicine
A Hypochondriac’s Nightmare: Medical Practice in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Chair/Comment: Ed Behrend-Martínez, Appalachian State University
Dan Crews, University of Central Missouri: “Doctors, Empirics, and Charles V’s Court Disease”
Kristy Wilson Bowers, Northern Illinois University: “Conflicting Empiricism: Medical Disputes in SixteenthCentury Spain”
Michele Clouse, Ohio University: “Failed Treatments and Broken Contracts: Perceptions of Medical
(Mal)practice in Early Modern Spain”
CONCURRENT SESSION X (10.30-11.50AM)
Session 43 (Room AV1)
Religious Figures and Their Representations in Early Modern Spain
Chair: James Boyden, Tulane University
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Jonathan E. Greenwood, Johns Hopkins University: “Wonders of Heaven and Earth: Images of Ignatius Loyola
in Early Seventeenth-Century Andalusia”
Carolyn Salomons, St. Mary’s University: “’An Impossible quid pro quo’: Representations of Tomás de
Torquemada”
Jessica A. Boon, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: “Marian Apocalyptic: The Conorte of Juana de la
Cruz, 1481-1534”
Session 44 (Room AV2)
Gender Difference and Sexuality in Late 20th and Early 21st Century Spain
Chair: Jessica Davidson, James Madison University
Kostis Kornetis, New York University: “Sexuality, Youth, and the Left in Late Francoism and the Spanish
Transition”
Kathryn L. Mahaney, CUNY Graduate Centre: “’Professions Don’t Have a Sex’: Feminist Approaches to
Highlighting Gender Discrimination in Post-Franco Spain”
Caitlin McClelland Methvin, Indiana University: “’Retornos’ by Juana Castro: Reflecting on Spanish Women’s
Role as Primary Caretakers of the Elderly”
Comment: Julia Hudson-Richards, Pennsylvania State University Altoona
Session 45 (Room X1)
“International” Religious Exchange in Thirteenth-Century Iberia
Chair: Janna Bianchini, University of Maryland
Amy Boland, St. Louis University: “Paris and the Pugio: Ramon Martí’s Connection to the Theological
Controversies at the University of Paris”
Kyle C. Lincoln, Webster University: “A Milanese Lawyer in El Noble’s Court: Arderico di Palacio of Palencia (r.
-1208) and the Castilian Church”
Edward Holt, St. Louis University: “Fighting on the Spiritual Front: Liturgy, Devotion, and Crusade in a Templar
Scaramentary (Vat. Lat. 3547)”
Session 46 (Room X2)
Money, Economics, and Power in the Spanish Empire
Chair: Gabriel Paquette, Johns Hopkins University
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Michael J. Levin, University of Akron: “Follow the Money: Questionable Finances and the Spanish Embassy in
Genoa”
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha, New York University: “Conquest and the ‘Little Fishes of the Sea’: Portuguese and
Spanish Imperial Escalation in the Atlantic Commons”
Jeremy R. Bassetti, Valencia College: “The National Value of Coins: Numismatics, General History, and the
Collection of Spain’s Past”
**Note: All room assignments are generic and tentative at this time.