Early Modern (Dis)continuities: Iberian Colonialisms Across the Oceans

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.

Guest speakers:
Ricardo Padrón (The University of Virginia)
Diego Luis (Johns Hopkins University)
Lexie Cook (Yale University)
Miguel Valerio (Washington University in St. Louis)

For questions, contact conference organizers You-Jin Kim (yjk@princeton.edu), David Rivera (dr8727@princeton.edu), or Chloe Wheeler (cw2772@princeton.edu).

This conference is sponsored by the Spanish and Portuguese Department, the Humanities Council, the Center for Culture, Society, and Religion, the Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, the Program in Latin American Studies, the Center for Collaborative History, the Program in East Asian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature