The Maius Workshop Online! Join our discussion on ‘Power’, 20 April, 6:00pm (GMT)

Crown of Reccesvinth,
7th century, MAN, Madrid

Maius doesn’t stop! We have decided to transform our next event into an online meeting. Join us on Zoom at 6:00 pm (GMT) on 20 April 2020. Please click this URL to join: https://us04web.zoom.us/s/367909092 (please note you will be asked to register and download Zoom). You can use your PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device.

As in previous meetings, this workshop will feature short informal presentations followed by discussion. You will be able to present PowerPoint slides or other material remotely, and to join the discussion via voice or chat.

We invite proposals for 15-minute presentations related to the theme of ‘power’, widely considered. Speakers are encouraged to focus their talks on a particular case study (object, extract, document, etc.), which plays a role in their research and can spark creative discussion.

Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to: the monarchy and its accoutrements; bureaucracy and law enforcement; money and wealth; war and violence; religious orthodoxy and spiritual control; affective impact and awe.

Our line-up includes:

Edward Payne, Assistant Professor at Durham University, who is developing a new project on violence in the early modern Spanish port city. His paper is entitled: ‘Everyday violence? Imagining the Tribunale della Vicaria in seicento Naples’.

Nadia Mariana Consiglieri, an Argentinian PhD Candidate in Theory and History of Arts at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in co-tutorship with the École Pratique des Hautes Études, who will discuss ‘Animals in visual discourses of Hispanic royal power (11th–12th centuries)’.

If you would like to present your work-in-progress, please email maiusworkshop@gmail.com.

Our sessions are open to all, and research in early stages of development is especially welcome.

POSTPONED: Maius Workshop Meeting: ‘Power’, Courtauld Institute of Art, Monday 23 March, 5:00–6:30pm

In light of the current situation with Covid-19, we have decided to postpone this workshop to a date TBC. We will reschedule it as soon as possible and look forward to discussing ‘power’ with you.

 

Women and Womanhood in Early Modern Spain and the New World – Agency, Autonomy and Authorship, Senate House, London, 20 March 2020

20 March 2020, 2.00pm – 6.00pm
Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

In the month of International Women’s Day, this panel showcases the inspiring work and experiences of women in early modern Spain and the New World who challenged the norms and traditions of their times. These women have not been fully recognised and, in the case of the writers, very few of their works translated into English. The panel also discusses how Golden Age women have been represented and their works received, in the past and today. Featuring specialists in the field who are also bravely breaking scholarly boundaries in their research, this event is funded by the Instituto Cervantes and the IMLR.

14:00    Welcome

Chair:    Ignacio Peyró (Instituto Cervantes)
14:15    Elena Carrera (QMUL): ‘Women’s Shame in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America’
14:45    Catherine Maguire (QMUL): ‘Representing mothers and maternal hope in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish shrine books’

15:15    Break

Chair:    Catherine Davies (IMLR, London)
15:30    Anne Holloway (QUB): ‘”When Amarilis was here”: late pastoral (and early modern fan fiction) in the poetry of Lope de Vega’
16:00    Isabel Torres (QUB): ‘“Getting past the ending” – Rethinking the female subject in the Baroque comedia: Reflections on Ana Caro’s El conde Partinuplés and Calderón’s El Alcalde de Zalamea’
16:30    Catherine Boyle (KCL): ‘A Feminist Translates the Women of the Spanish Golden Age’.

17:00    Discussion

17:15    Reception

Generously supported by the Instituto Cervantes and the IMLR

All are welcome to attend this free event but please register in advance at https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22220 (orhttp://bit.ly/CervantesIMLRWoman)

CFP: Communal Identity at Borders of Faith, Leeds IMC 2020 (6–9 July 2020), deadline 20 September 2019

Edilia and François-Auguste de Montêquin Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians, deadline 30 September, 2018

Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, Texas

This award provides support for travel related to research on Spanish, Portuguese, or Ibero-American architecture.

The awards consist of a $2,000 stipend for a junior scholar and a $6,000 award for a senior scholar. The awardees will be notified in December and will be recognized at the SAH 72nd Annual International Conference in Providence, Rhode Island (April 24–28, 2019). The awards will be announced in the May 2019 issue of the SAH Newsletter.

This fellowship is intended to support the research of junior scholars (usually scholars engaged in doctoral dissertation research) annually, and senior scholars (scholars who have completed their PhD or equivalent terminal degree) every other year in even-numbered years (2020, 2022, 2024, etc.). The research to be supported must focus on Spanish, Portuguese, or Ibero-American architecture, including colonial architecture produced by the Spaniards in the Philippines and what is today the United States. The applicant must be a current member of SAH.

Following completion of travel and research supported by the fellowship, each de Montêquin Fellowship awardee must submit a written report summarizing their research and explaining what travel was undertaken and how funds were spent. The report will be submitted to the SAH office no later than three months following the completion of work related to the fellowship. Awardees are required to upload images to SAHARA (a minimum of 50  for junior scholars and a minimum of 150 for senior scholars).

You will need two recommendations to apply for this fellowship, a description of the research project on Iberian or Ibero-American architecture to be funded (500 words maximum), a current curriculum vitae (5 pages max), and a statement of purpose.

Applications for the 2019 Edilia and François-Auguste de Montêquin Fellowship will open at 3 pm CDT on August 1, 2018, and close on September 30, 2018.

Click here for more information and to complete the application form.

Call for Papers: Iberian (In)tolerance (8 November: London)

Paper proposals are being accepted for “Iberian (In)tolerance: Minorities, Cultural Exchanges, and Social Exclusion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era,” an LAHP Funded Postgraduate Students-led Conference to be held at Senate House, Bedford Room 37, University College, London.

Keynotes speakers include Prof. Trevor Dadson (Queen Mary University) and Prof. Alexander Samson (UCL)
Submission deadline: 20 June 2018

During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, minorities in the Iberian peninsula experienced both peaceful coexistence and, at times, violent intolerance. But despite restrictions, persecutions, and forced conversions, extensive cultural production and exchange among Jews, Christians and Muslims defined the life in towns and cities across the centuries, particularly in Al-Andalus. In this context of religious (in)tolerance, the question of limpieza de sangre (blood purity) played an important role in preventing newly converted Christians from occupying high social positions. Recent approaches have highlighted how the question of limpieza de sangre was not only a matter of anti-Judaism or hostility towards Jews and Moors, but was also driven by personal enmity, ambition, and political interest. Also relevant are a series of political decisions concerning minorities, such as conversos or moriscos, which appeared in the two first decades of the seventeenth century and deeply affected the social climate of the time. This is reflected in literary works from the period, when a number of prominent pieces dealt directly with the issues raised by the political reforms. While some of the decisions are very well studied, such as the expulsion of the moriscos in 1609 and 1610, others such as the issue of the Pardons, in which the both Duke of Lerma and the Count-Duke of Olivares were involved, are less well known. It is clear that these circumstances affected the lives of many authors, their poetic trajectories and determined their voices and their works.
We invite proposals for papers in English (15-20 minutes) that explore the relationships among Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the 17th century and how these relationships changed over time, as represented in literary works that mirrored and were influenced by the particular socio-political dynamics of the period.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• Literature and minorities: Conversos, New Christians, Marranos, Moriscos.
• Literature and tolerance, convivencia
, cultural exchanges.
• Literature and legality: statutes of limpieza de sangre (blood purity), blood libel, Pardons of 1609 and 1627, Duke of Lerma, Duke of Olivares.
• Literature beyond the Iberian Peninsula, Spanish identity in France, the Netherlands, Portugal, etc.

Send your proposal here

Candidates will be notified by the 15^th of July 2018.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us here: iberianintolerance@gmail.com.

Organisers:
• Roser López Cruz (King’s College London)
• Virginia Ghelarducci (School of Advanced Study)