- Spain and its Wider World, Medieval to Modern Return to events
November 6, 3:00pm - 5:30pm | Washington 201 |
The Department of History presents The Lyon Gardiner Tyler Lectures. This Fall, the lectures will be occurring in one "mini-conference" on Friday, November 4, 3-5:30, in Washington 201. The title is Spain and its Wider World, Medieval to Modern. Our speakers are:
-- Jeffrey Bowman, Kenyon. Author of Shifting Landmarks: Proof, Property, and Dispute in Catalonia around the year 1000. (Cornell 2004). Winner of the Premio del Rey Prize of the AHA for the best book in Spanish history. Bowman's current research is on violence among Spanish noblewomen.
-- Maria Portuondo, Hopkins. Author of Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World (Chicago 2009). Portuondo's first book treats science as an administrative practice under Philip II (about which we know practically nothing), and brings Spain into the Scientific Revolution while simultaneously amending what that "revolution" signified.
-- Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Fordham. Author most recently of The Conquest of History: Spanish Colonialism and National Histories in the Nineteenth Century (Pittsburgh 2008). Schmidt-Nowara is a well-known and prolific investigator of the dynamic between empire and nationalist discourses. His latest work has been called a "global history in the best sense."
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