Conference: The Spanish Atlantic on Paper: Methods on Material Culture and Critical Bibliography
Date:
9 April 2026 – 10 April 2026
Time: 9:00 am–4:30 pm
Location: The University of Texas at Austin, GAR 4.100 & Benson Library Conference Room
Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School at the University of Virginia; The Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Endowment, Littlefield Lecture, Humanities Institute, the Viola S. Hoffman and George W. Hoffman Lectureship in Liberal Arts and Fine Arts, and LLILAS-Benson at The University of Texas at Austin
This two-day symposium convenes a diverse group of scholars working on textual, visual, and material cultures across the Spanish Atlantic world and beyond, from the sixteenth through the twentieth century. Its goal is to critically reflect on how the study of materiality can transform the ways we think about the historical geographies of the “Spanish empire,” the “New World,” “Latin America,” and the “United States,” their shifting borderlands, and their entanglements with other imperial and national formations. The program features five invited speaker lectures, a showcase of the Benson Latin American Collection’s Treasures, a book discussion, and three panel discussions on archives, digital objects, and curatorial practices.
View the conference program here.
Organized by Alexander Chaparro-Silva (UT Austin, History) and Diana Heredia-López (UT Austin, IHS).