As a co-sponsor of the bilingual Visual Culture and Textuality in Colonial Spanish American (16th-18th Centuries) International Symposium, the University Libraries will host the first panel, “Spiritual Borderlands.”
The “Spiritual Borderlands” panel includes two presentations by Alejandro Caneque, Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, and Andrew Newman, Professor of English at Stony Brook University. Caneque will present “Textual and Visual Images of Martyrdom on the Frontiers of the Spanish Empire in the New World”. Newman will present “Invisible Books: Spiritual Intertexts in Cotton Mather’s ‘A Brand Pluck’d out of the Burning.” Stony Brook University professors Paul Firbas and Karen Lloyd will provide opening remarks and moderate, respectively.
More information is available on the symposium website.