Republics of Difference: Religious and Racial Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World
This book launch event celebrates the new monograph by Faculty Fellow Karen Graubart (history), Republics of Difference: Religious and Racial Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World, which examines and compares 15th-century Seville and 16th- and 17th-century Lima to show how religiously- and racially-based self-governance functioned in a society with many kinds of law, what effects it had on communities, and why it mattered. Featured panelists who will discuss its contents and impact in the field include:
Sherwin K. Bryant
Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies
Co-Director, Andean Cultures and Histories Working Group
Affiliated Faculty, Department of History
Affiliated Faculty, Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Northwestern University
Lisa Voigt
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Special Issues Editor, Colonial Latin American Review
The Ohio State University
Carlos A. Jáuregui
Associate Professor of Latin American Literature
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow
Moderator:
Aníbal Pérez-Liñan
Director, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Karen B. Graubart
Karen B. Graubart is Professor of History and is the author of With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550-1700 (Stanford University Press, 2007), which was awarded the Ligia Parra Jahn prize from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies in 2008. She has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2007...