NATURE AS IMAGE AND RESOURCE IN PRE-COLONIAL AND COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
FRIDAY, 28th NOVEMBER 2008
This inter-disciplinary one-day workshop aims to create a space for the
dissemination of research and new approaches currently being explored by
scholars, in Great Britain and Ireland, working on all aspects of the pre-
colonial and colonial periods of the Spanish American history, culture, and
literature.
Proposals for papers are invited on any or all aspects of representations
of nature, including: developments and changes in visual and literary
representations; economic initiatives; gender; political symbols; medical
and scientific interchange; and local and trans-Atlantic networks. The
event will include a seminar by guest speaker Dr Daniela Bleichmar,
Assistant Professor of Art History and Spanish and Portuguese, University
of Southern California.
Deadline for proposals (200 words) 31st August 2008, to: Dr Fiona Clark
Spanish and Portuguese Studies Queen’s University Belfast 8 University
Square, Belfast, BT7 1NN email: [log in to unmask]
Hosted by Spanish and Portuguese Studies and the Centre for Eighteenth-
Century Studies, Queen’s University Belfast
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