Performed in every part of the early modern Portuguese empire that extended across four continents, public rituals (e.g. festivals, entries, funerals, processions) represent a key site for comparing cultural and political practices in different areas and for studying their transmission and transformation on a global scale. This conference aims to address the spatial and geographic […]
Vernon Press invites original book proposals and translation proposals for previously published books (from English to Spanish or Spanish to English) for as part of our Bridging Language and Scholarship (BLS) initiative. We welcome proposals for both edited volumes and single-author books in a range of disciplines. For more information: https://vernonpress.com/proposal/54/a434c41d4b3ba5ab65c7775a3037fd9f
Los retratos de las reinas portuguesas o de las reinas españolas representaban las sutilezas de su estado a través de su vestimenta, joyas, etc… así como de motios más amplios relacionados con la representación de circunstancias específicas como son las del ceremonial de cada corte. Consecuentemente, las reinas de las diferentes dinastías se representaban de […]
National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies, 28th Annual National Conference, February 17-22, 2020, Dallas, TX Abstracts, not to exceed two (2) pages, should be submitted that relate to any aspect of the Hispanic and Latino experience. Subjects may include, but are not limited to: immigration, migrant workers, interracial marriage, education challenges for the non-documented, […]
We have already begun to plan for PSHAM 2020, which will be at Purdue University on February 29. As usual, we’ll meet for a working lunch and then discuss three pre-circulated works in progress. Many of us will also go out to dinner together after the meeting is done. As we’ve done for the past […]
CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS: New Series – Vernon Press Series in Classical StudiesVernon Press invites proposals on the history, literature, art, philosophy, political or social structures, religion, languages, or archaeology of the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations for its new Series in Classical Studies.The classics are the earliest branch of the humanities, with a long […]
The twenty-second biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies will take place 12–14 March 2020 in Sarasota, Florida. The program committee invites 250-word abstracts of proposed twenty-minute papers on topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art, music and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Interdisciplinary work is particularly appropriate to […]
Call for Papers SYMPOSIUM April 17, 2020—Department of History, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA Ibero-Dutch Entanglements in the Seventeenth Century: Conflict and Collaboration in Global Perspective Ibero-Dutch entanglements during the seventeenth century are critical to understand regional histories in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and Southeast Asia. The political, military, and commercial conflicts among Spain, […]
Beginning in Fall 2019, Charles A. McDonald will join Rice University as the Samuel W. and Goldye Marian Spain Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program in Jewish Studies. While there, he will complete a book manuscript based on his dissertation, provisionally titled “Return to Sepharad: Jews, Spain, and Europe’s Moral Order.”
