Stuart B. Schwartz (Yale University) will discuss his new book Blood and Boundaries: The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America (Brandeis University Press, 2020) with Karoline P. Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Max S. Hering Torres (Universidad Nacional de Colombia).
This inaugural talk will mark the beginning of the 4th year of the Iberian History Seminar at Oxford.
Stuart B. Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History at the University of Yale. He is a world-leading historian of colonial Latin America. His many publications include (with James Lockhart) Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1983), Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835 (Cambridge University Press, 1985), and All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2008).
Karoline P. Cook is Lecturer in the History of the Atlantic World at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research has mostly focused on Moriscos and the Spanish empire, as well as the intersection between religious identity, race, and nation in the creation of ethnic categories. Her first book is entitled Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Latin America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
Max S. Hering Torres is Professor of History at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. He is one of the most important voices in the current debate over race in the early modern Iberian world. His publications include the influential volume Race and Blood in the Iberian World (Lit Verlag, 2012), which he co-edited with María Elena Martínez and David Nirenberg.
The meeting will be held online with Zoom. Please register in advance: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckc-2pqj8sHdyxaFmrHUJyjR80vbJwGbJ6. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
