Dominant Discourses, Guarded Voices:
Religion and Society in Spain and Its Empire,
14th–16th Centuries
October 21–22, 2010Thursday, October 21
8:30 Coffee, Welcoming Remarks, Byron Wells, Chair of Romance
Languages, Wake Forest University
Greene Hall 317
9:15-10:30 Religion and Society in the Spanish Empire
Greene 320
Chair: Katherine Mayers, Wake Forest University
Ulrike Wiethaus, Wake Forest University. Writing Trauma, Conceptualizing Empire: Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto
Mina García Soormally, Elon University. Conversion as Colonizing Experiment: Fray Hernando de Talavera and Fray Juan de Zumárraga
Alexander L. Wisnoski III, University of Minnesota. “He Treats Me Like a Slave”: Divorce and the Formation of Legal Rhetoric in Colonial Lima, 1600-1625
10:30 Coffee Break
Greene 317
11:00 Keynote Address
Greene 145
María Mercedes Carrión, Emory University. Primero huerto:
Iconography, Anamorphism, and the Idea of the Garden in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Mysticism
12:00 Lunch
Greene 317
1:30-2:45 Religious Discourses in Late Medieval Spain
Greene 320
Chair: Sol Miguel-Prendes, Wake Forest University
Taryn Chubb, Cornell University. De vita spirituali: St. Vincent Ferrer, Cardinal Cisneros, and Fifteenth-Century Devotional Practices in Castile
Isidro J. Rivera, University of Kansas. Devotional Performace and the Visual Culture of Juan de Padilla’s El retablo de la vida de Cristo
Ryan Szpiech, University of Michigan. "Positioning Paul in Late-Medieval Polemics"
3:00-4:15 Religious Minorities’ Guarded Voices
Greene 320
Chair: Monique O’Connell, Wake Forest University
Dayle Seidenspinner-Núñez, University of Notre Dame. Re-Inventing Spain: Conversos and the Writing of History in Tratamaran Spain
Meri Bryant, Charleston, South Carolina. Prejudice and the Spanish Inquisition
Gregory S. Hutcheson, University of Louisville. Muslim Eschatology in the Cancionero de Baena
4:30 Concert
Brendle Recital Hall, Scales Fine Arts Center
Wake Forest Consort, Music of Renaissance Spain
5:45 Keynote Address
Scales Fine Arts Center 102
Remarks, Jill Tiefenthaler, Provost, Wake Forest University
David Nirenberg, University of Chicago. The Unbearable Judaism of Medieval Spain
7:00 Wine and Cheese
Hanes Gallery Lobby, Scales Fine Arts Center
7:45 Buffet Reception for Registered Participants
Little Magnolia Room, Reynolda Hall
Friday, October 22
8:00 Coffee
Greene 317
8:30-9:45 Early Modern Writers’ Religious Discourses
Greene 239
Chair: Josefina López, Wake Forest University
Dorothy Donahue, Miami University, Ohio. From a Father to his Spiritual Daughters: San Juan de la Cruz’s Letters to Women Penitents
Ricardo Huamán, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lozana: The Whore of Babylon
Kevin S. Larsen, University of Wyoming. Cervantes’s Novela del cautivoand Sura 12 of the Qu’ran, with Reference to Antiquities of the Jews and the General estoria
10:00-11:15 Religious Discourses in Early Modern Spain
Greene 239
Chair: Margaret Ewalt, Wake Forest University
Jorge Abril, Wake Forest University. Idolatry and Superstition in the First Treatises of Demonology in 16th-Century Spain
Jodi Bilinkoff, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A Christian and a Gentleman: Sanctity and Masculine Honor in Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Life of Francis Borgia
Joseph Michael Fulton, Whitworth University. Procedural Irregularities in the Inquisitorial Trial of Fray Luis de León (1572-76)
11:30 Keynote Address
Greene 239
Cynthia Robinson, Cornell University. Talking Religion, Comparatively Speaking: Throwing Some Light on the Multi-Confessional Landscape of Late Medieval Iberia
12:30 Lunch
Greene 317
Our sincere thanks to the sponsors of this event:
The Program for Cultural Cooperation
between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and
United States Universities
The Department of Romance Languages, Department of Music,
Department of History, the Divinity School, and
the Provost’s Fund for Academic Excellence of Wake Forest University
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