Symposium on The Spanish Empire in the premodern Mediterranean

The CU Mediterranean Studies Group & supporting units present “The Spanish Empire and the Mediterranean: New Directions,” a Kayden Book Prize Symposium to be held in-person on Thursday, April 21, 12:30-6 p.m. at the Flatirons Room at the University of Colorado Boulder’s C4C and streamed live.

This Kayden Book Award symposium, in honor of Céline Dauverd’s Church and State in Spanish Italy: Rituals and Legitimacy in the Kingdom of Naples (Cambridge University Press: 2020) explores approaches to the study of the premodern Spanish Empire in the Mediterranean and beyond via an interdisciplinary approach. With participating scholars from across the humanities, the symposium will invite discussions on current research using premodern Spain as the crux of inquiry. Some of the topics include New World representations of power, minority relations through gender, Iberian expansion into Jerusalem, the creation of myths, or Spanish imperial thalassology. Focusing on gender, race, imperialism, language, religion,and policy, this event seeks to examine the multiple ways Spanish rulers established an effective Euro-Mediterranean empire that eventually swelled across the globe.

1:00–1:15 registration with coffee1:15-30 Opening remarks, BrianCatlos(Religious Studies, CU Boulder)

1:30-2:20 Luis Corteguera(History, University of Kansas )“Sacred Monarchs andthe Science of Myth: Spain in European Context.” (Moderator: Celine Dauverd, CU Boulder)

2:30-:3:20 Andrew Devereux (History, University of California San Diego (Moderator: Celine Dauverd, CU Boulder)

3:30: 4:30 Round table1:How does a Mediterranean-centered analysis assist inunderstanding the Spanish empire? In what way does a study of Spanish historyoutside of the peninsula itself invigorate our understanding of premodern empires?

Moderator: Brian Catlos (Religious Studies, CU Boulder)

1.Núria Silleras-Fernández(Spanish andPortuguese, CU Boulder)

2.Gerardo Gutierrez(Anthropology, CU Boulder)

3.Chad Leahy (Spanish Language, Literary & Cultural Studies, University of Denver)

4.Andrés Prieto(Spanish and Portuguese, CU Boulder)

4:30-4:45 coffee break

4:45-5:45 Round table 2:Towhat extent does a history from below constitute acrucial aspect of the relation between center and periphery? What was therelationship between minority communities and the notion of a homogenous,universal, and Christian empire? Moderator: Bob Ferry (History, CU Boulder)

1.James Córdova(Art & Art History, CU Boulder)

2.Rebecca Wartell(Jewish Studies, CU Boulder)

3.RogerMartínez Dávila(History, CU Colorado Springs)

4.Diane Sieber(Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society, CU Boulder)

5:45–6:00 Closing remarks• Brian Catlos & Celine Dauverd 

Presented by: The CU Mediterranean Studies Group & the Mediterranean Seminar. With the special support of:


The Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization

The CU President’s Fund for the Humanities

Eugene M. Kayden Awards

The Center for Humanities & the Arts

The Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence
 
This event is made possible by the support of the following units: Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, Humanities, Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, Classics, History, French & Italian, Asian Languages and Civilizations, Spanish and Portuguese, Philosophy, and Art and Art History. Administrative support provided by Religious Studies.

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Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 1:00pm to 6:00pm

C4C, Flatiron Room CU Boulder

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