Organized by Romana Radlwimmer. Funded by VW-Foundation.

PROGRAM

Monday, Sept. 30

9am Welcome, Romana Radlwimmer

9:30am Keynote: Wealth in/of the Colonial Repertoire, Lisa Voigt
Moderator: Romana Radlwimmer

11:30am Methodology: The “registro de navíos”. The Trade between Spain and Spanish America, Renate Pieper

3pm Panel: Archival Expropriations
Moderator: Pedro Monteiro
Theft as a Mode of Subversion: Exploring the Dynamics of Ownership and Wealth in Colonial Archives, Tamara Bartl
Baring our Seams: Translating the Archive through Poetry, or Talmudic Textiles, Rachel Kaufmann
Setting the Archive on Fire: Urban Violence and Memory in the 1692 Mexico City Uprising, Jan Büttenbender

5:30pm The Real Alcázar: From Golden Tiles to the Casa de Contratación

Tuesday, Oct. 1

9am Panel: The Materiality of Fortune
Moderator: Jan Büttenbender
Radical Transactions: Toward a Fictional History of a Mexican Silver Coin, Miguel Llanos de la Guardia
Shirts of Silver, Caps of Gold: Metallic Finery in Sixteenth-Century Huarochirí, Xena Fitzgerald
Potosí’s Silver Age, an Age of Wind: The Guayrachina as an Icon of Indigenous Technology and Global Extractivism, Nicole Jozwik

11:45am Archivo de Indias, with Esther Cruces, Director

2:30pm Archivo de Indias: Exhibit Consejo de Indias (1524-1834): Navegando por un mar de papeles

4:45pm Methodology: The Archive and the Repertoire, Lisa Voigt

Wednesday, Oct. 2

8:30am Keynote: The Economic Polycentrism of the Spanish Monarchy in the Writings of Tomás de Mercado: Iron and Silver, Renate Pieper
Moderator: Romana Radlwimmer

10:30am Workshop: Narratives of Possession (?): Portuguese Texts on Colonial Guinea (15th-16th Century), Pedro Monteiro

12:30pm Methodology: Practicum in Historical Translation, Allison Bigelow

3:30pm Teaching Session: Journal Article Publication Workshop, Lisa Voigt

5pm La Torre de Oro and its Colonial Memory

Thursday, Oct. 3

8:30am Teaching Session: Mining the Colonial Archive, Allison Bigelow

10:30am Workshop: Mixed Alterities, International Law and the Polemics of Possession in Franco-Spanish Pirate Narratives (1590-1695), Gesine Brede

12:30pm Teaching Session: Tomás de Mercado, a Keen Observer of Trade with the Indies, Renate Pieper

3:30pm Panel: Alterity, Agency, Wealth
Moderator: Rebeca Dallal
Empowering Agency: Negotiations of a Spanish Mestiza Woman in the Colonial Pacific, You-Jin Kim
Fruitful Wealth: Blackness, Agency, and Cacao in Eighteenth-century Venezuela, Ronny Azuaje
Sonic Spaces and Siloed Places: Afro-Peruvian Liminal Rhythms in the 18th century Haciendas de La Nasca, Peru, María Carrillo Marquina

Friday, Oct. 4

9am Panel: Commodities, Law, Science
Moderator: Gesine Brede
The Price of Being Dressed, Luisina Siva Blanc
A Peruvian Mathematician: Pedro Peralta Barnuevo and the Bourbon Management of Scientific Knowledge in the Early Enlightenment, Daniela Oyola Valdéz
Humanist Rupture and the Creation of Contracts in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Diana Echevarria Palencia

11:30am Keynote: Transnational History and Local Memory: How Chilean Copper Built Monuments to White Supremacy in the US South, Allison Bigelow
Moderator: Romana Radlwimmer

1pm Concluding Remarks, Romana Radlwimmer

3:30pm Sevilla as Archive of Colonial Wealth

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Venue: Cámera de Comercio, Plaza de la Contratación, 8, Sevilla.

For registration and participation in person or via Zoom please contact Christina Birnbaum (c.birnbaum@em.uni-frankfurt.de)