Black Catholicism in the Early Modern Iberian World

Organised by the Iberian History Seminar, this special event will offer an opportunity to meet and talk with Erin Rowe (Johns Hopkins University) about her current research on black saints, which lies at the intersection of theology, race, gender, and visual culture in the early modern Iberian world. During the first part of the meeting Chloe Ireton (UCL) will ask a few questions to our special guest, then the floor will be opened for questions and remarks. The event will be chaired by Cecilia Tarruell (Oriel College, Oxford).

The Mac Gregor Room is in the Third Quad of Oriel College.

Erin Rowe is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Her research explores the religious culture of the early modern Iberian History, with special attention to sanctity and the multiple ways of belonging that characterised Spain, Portugal and their overseas empires. Her publications include the books Saint and Nation: Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain (2011) and Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism (2018), as well as the volume, coedited with Kimberly Lynn, The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches (2017).