Empire of Concord? Communities and Authority in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds.
Organized by Maria Vittoria Spissu (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, Department of the Arts - DAR - University of Bologna / The Newberry Library, Chicago)

Tuesday, June 11

14:00 – 14:20
Welcome: Maria Vittoria Spissu, UNIBO; Irene Graziani, UNIBO; Lia Markey, Center for Renaissance Studies - The Newberry Library, Chicago
Introduction: Maria Vittoria Spissu, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow 2022-2025 EU-funded COMCON project, Università di Bologna

Session 1
Chair: Irene Graziani, Dipartimento delle Arti, Università di Bologna
14:20 – 14:40 Jessica Goethals, University of Alabama
What’s a Little Invasion between Friends? The Sack of Rome and its Aftermath
14:40 – 15:00 Marta Albalá Pelegrín, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Theater of Conquest: Staging Peace at War in Spanish Rome
15:00 – 15:20 Piers Baker-Bates, Open University
Iberian Ecclesiastics and the Political and Cultural Geographies of Early Modern Rome

Session 2
Chair: Lia Markey, Center for Renaissance Studies - The Newberry Library, Chicago
16:00 – 16:20 Emily Monty, I Tatti | The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance / Museo Nacional del Prado
Starting from Scrap: A Roman History of Chile and the Material Politics of its Illustrations
16:20 – 16:40 Maria Elisa Navarro Morales, Trinity College Dublin
De Jerusalén al Escorial pasando por las Américas: arquitectura americana el en tratado de Caramuel
16:40 – 17:00 Javier Patiño Loira, University of California
The Taste of Discord: Comets, Music, and Politics in Early Seventeenth-Century Europe

17:20 – 18:00 Keynote Lecture
Luisa Elena Alcalá, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Jesuit Procurators in the Iberian World: Authorized Circulation as Corporate Identity, or the Negotiation of Multiple Communities

Wednesday, June 12

Session 3
Chair: Luisa Elena Alcalá, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
9:20 – 9:40
Fabien Montcher, Saint Louis University
Signboard, Skin, and Space: Streets Censorship in Mid-Seventeenth Century Lisbon
9:40 – 10:00
Lucía Querejazu Escobari, Universität Zürich
On Modelling Salvation of Andean Souls: Saving Pagan Ancestors and Constructing Local Saints
10:00 – 10:20 Katherine Mills, Harvard University
In the Place of a Rosary: Sister Rosa of Argote’s Demonic Envoltorio

Session 4
Chair: Christopher Fletcher, Center for Renaissance Studies - The Newberry Library, Chicago
11:00 – 11:20 Daniela Caracciolo, Università del Salento
Immagini devote tra Santi e Viceré nel Viceregno spagnolo di Napoli
11:20 – 11:40 Nora Guggenbühler, Universität Zürich
Empire of the Virgin: The Role of Miraculous Images’ Copies in Connecting the Iberian World
11:40 – 12:00 Escardiel González Estévez, Universidad de Sevilla
“Convocaba al temor y a la venganza”: San Miguel, capitán de los ejércitos del rey en el imaginario andino

12:20 – 12:40
Closing remarks: Maria Vittoria Spissu, UNIBO; Lia Markey, Center for Renaissance Studies - The Newberry Library, Chicago

This event will be free and open to the public. No registration is required.